i. UFOs is a generic term to describe anything that can't be immediately identified. It doesn't automatically refer to alien spacecraft. (Actor Kurt Russel tell a good story about seeing and reporting several UFOs when he was landing his private plane years ago. His story was later used anonymously in a special about alien life visiting earth, but he himself never thought that. As he said, pilots see stuff they can't figure out... it happens.)
ii. I've seen UFOs twice in my life. One 'tracked' our warship at sea, flying low over the ocean at a distance of a mile or so from us... two officers and a lookout watched it. Our ship's navigator positively identified it as the planet Venus using his charts. It was just a weird combination of the planet's brightness and its low altitude against the early dawn sky that made it seem very close to us.
I have no explanation for the other sighting, but the random nature of its movement convinced me it was just some natural phenomenon that I couldn't identify.
Even credible, highly trained people can be fooled. We don't immediately start thinking about aliens.
iii. Anybody who thinks humanoid aliens -- grey, green or otherwise -- are buzzing us has a serious LACK of imagination.
- Alien life is unlikely to look anything like us. So no grey/green aliens with big eyes, big foreheads, pointed ears...
- The vast distances between stars also mean that any alien civilization would have huge fleets of spacecraft in all directions to find other planets. They would have to mine entire solar systems to extract the material they would need to build them. (Let's ignore the whole thousands of years it would take to travel between stars...)
- There might be lots of alien civilizations out there, but they probably develop and burn out before another one comes along. They might miss each other by tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years.
The universe is a big and lonely place.
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