| Yes there are a million fantastical scenarios one could imagine. But they are all incredibly implausible compared all of the mundane, boring non-alien alternatives: * People getting bored and imagining things (“seeing faces in the clouds” so to speak) * People being primed to see something (they read about other “UFO” sightings) and then, of course, they “see it” too * People wanting to believe something for tangential ideological or social reasons — the government is corrupt and is hiding things -> UFOs must exist! * People literally just making things up (they want attention, money, want to one-up someone, want to be special, have unregulated emotions, etc) * Faulty / mis-calibrated sensors * Data corruption / misinterpretation * It was just a bird / cloud / water vapor / reflection of sunlight / electrical short / optical illusion * And so on These are the types of “boring” things that are always the real explanation when someone starts talking about crazy shit like ghosts or aliens. Aliens and ghosts are cool and exciting so people don’t want to believe the boring reasons. We often want distractions in our lives, and what a fun distraction that would be, eh? Wild and outlandish claims require overwhelming evidence. |
I’ll take it that you’ve conceded that point.
If I wanted to engage with your new point I’d say - actually none of the points you’ve listed explain the current situation. There’s simply too many credible people, from too many separate instances, that are claiming largely similar things across many different incidents. And we now have hard (though not ideal) video evidence that has yet to be explained within our current popular understanding of physics (and I’m aware of the popular debunks, which I find far from compelling).
But that would be opening a whole new discussion, and I’m not here to fight that battle.