Empty Game Object Does not Appear in Scene Heirarchy

I am very new to Unity and trying to teach myself with videos but becoming very frustrated as it seems every video seem to have some basic feature enabled that doesn’t work the same way on my version of unity.

For instance, I open a new 3D shell for a Unity project.
I can create and add a 3D blender object to a model folder.
I can drag the object to the scene and I see it appear in the hierarchy.

Now… some people in videos are creating “Empty Game Objects” and I’d like to do the same thing!

They add an “Empty Game Object” and it appears in the hierarchy window instantly. Then they can drag & drop the model object onto the empty game object and proceed to add other items to this game object.

My problem is, when I create an Empty Game Object it doesn’t appear in the scene hierarchy? So how are they doing this?

Additionally, when I try creating another instance of an empty game object, the unity system seems to think there is one already created and increments the name to something like: GameObject (2)

I can’t see the other GameObjects anywhere in the scene or the Heirarchy… in fact, I can’t see my light source or camera object either? How can I see these things?

In current unity Version (2019.3 in my case) You can collapse and expand the scene in the Hierarchy window.
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This is how it looks if its collapsed.
Clicking on the Triangle shape on the left side of the unity logo will expand the view again.

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