“Why not consider that UFOs are intelligent creatures in their own right...and not piloted by something else?”
Yes they can be anything you want. Even if they are a figment of your imagination, for you they are real.
For many, however, life is just an illusion.
We catch dragonflies and moths and we know what they are.
As for visitations from some other world, SHOW ME THE BEEF.
In the meantime I can not care less what some governor, pilot, or anyone else says they saw.
Regarding the darting and hovering comment...
It was to explain a poster questioning the technology that allowed an aircraft...or any machine for that matter...to make sudden drastic changes of direction at high speeds with no negative effects on the structure or possible crew.
If they were a lifeform itself...the mobile ability would explain a lot, IMO.
Welllllllllllllllll AlexW . . . enjoy the illusion that a TYPE II ERROR bites less deadly than a TYPE I error does.
In terms of the notion that some craft appear to be organisms . . . some may be. Some have hypothesized that they are ‘other dimensional’ or ‘spiritual.’ Quite plausible.
However, it doesn’t work for me for all of them. My relative worked around tangible craft that were technology.
Also, there are more than 3,000 verified tangible trace etc. sites wherein the sites visited by; landed on; etc. by UFO’s left tangible scientifically verifiable impacts on the environment in more than 3,000 studied cases. The presentation on that at the Aztec Conference in March was quite convincing and well done.
Of course, until one lands in some folks’ laps, they won’t believe anything unusual is going on.
Scientism and a bastardized version at that, seems to be their religion.