I want to believe in the survival of the Ivory Billed Woodpecker, too. (And there’s probably a better chance of that...)
Not that I think that extraterrestrial life isn’t ‘out there’ somewhere - it’s inconceivable to me that all that space is empty of life, and even intelligent life. But as fascinated as I’ve been with the UFO stuff throughout my life, nothing has convinced me that we’ve been ‘visited’.)
JT.