[krapp]

Well, bear in mind that before it was flying saucers, it was flying airships[0], and before that, many of the phenomena now associated with alien visitations and abductions were attributed to demons or angels. And of course, before it became known that there was no life on Mars of Venus, most aliens claimed to be from Mars or Venus.

Strange how the technology and culture of aliens always seems to align with human cultural and technological norms, and how they always seem to be, biologically, human or humanoid. The aliens created by science fiction authors are often far more alien than the aliens people actually claim to encounter. The diversity of life on Earth is more alien. Never any Tines or Puppeteers or sentient blobs of dark matter or or twelve foot tall squamous hyperdimensional polyps. Just... strangely unusual space people in unusual space cars. But never too unusual.

I'm an extreme skeptic about UFOs as alien spacecraft and of alien visitation because, other reasons aside, the universe they seem to describe is depressingly mundane.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_airship

[kpil]

Oth if someone popped out of a n-dimensional quantumdoor here in my kitchen, I'd say they 'teleported' which probably would be technically wrong :-)