Reply #13: All those "sightings" can be explained [View All]

Read "Demon-Haunted World" by Carl Sagan. Michael Shermer (of the Skeptical Inquirer) and James Randi are good at debunking UFOs too. The fact is there is no evidence (beyond a few anecdotes) that "aliens" of any sort have visited this planet. Photographs can (and have been) doctored. Eyewitness accounts are not evidence. Ask any police office who has to take statements from people who see exactly the same event. Eyewitness evidence is notoriously unreliable. Evidence would be some artifact that is obviously not of this world or alien DNA or something, not a shred of which has ever shown up. Because there is no concrete evidence, UFO conspiracy theorists insist that the government is hiding it. I don't believe they are. Weird things happen, yes, but it is almost certain that there is a rational explanation for it.

Some people are also more prone to seeing UFO's (or demons or angels) by their psychological makeup and their educational level.