That's your first mistake. I don't claim to know the truth about UFOs. That you conclude otherwise speaks more about your own mindset than mine. It seems to me that you're the one who claims to know the truth based more on what you don't know than on what you do.
In the past these lights have turned out to be flares dropped by planes, various types of balloons reflecting or carrying lights, flocks of geese reflecting light off their bellies, aircraft flying at an odd angles to the observer, meteor showers, and on and on and on.
You forgot swamp gas. No doubt the upside-down pie plate with a glowing underside and what looked like windows in the side that my aviation-industry-connected husband and his son, along with several neighbors, saw above their neighborhood in the early 70s (near an air force base, by the way) was a flair or a flock of geese. What idiots my husband, his son, and his neighbors must have been for not being able to discern the difference, which you surely would have! Either that, or he is a liar in very good company, including many extremely well-qualified aviation and law enforcement professionals.
Did you personally see it?
I actually know someone who claimed to have shot Bigfoot in the chest with a shotgun in the ‘70’s. I personally know another who claimed Bigfoot crawled out of a ditch, stood towering in the headlights of his car, and ran off. That happened on the same dead end road where the family of the shooter lived, and within the same week or so time frame.
That said, it doesn’t mean diddly. It’s hearsay. Second hand.
Okay, so far we have false appeals to authority, and now we have a straw man attack about who knows what. I didn't say I know the truth about anything. What I said was that it more likely that people are seeing normal things and mistaking them to be aliens than it is that they are actually seeing aliens. You apparently come at this from the other direction of "it is more likely to be aliens that anything else." And that's fine if you can support your position on that. Let see.
You forgot swamp gas. No doubt the upside-down pie plate with a glowing underside and what looked like windows in the side that my aviation-industry-connected husband and his son, along with several neighbors, saw above their neighborhood in the early 70s (near an air force base, by the way) was a flair or a flock of geese.
So, tell us: does the fact that it's near an air force base make it more or less likely to be aliens? From my point of view UFO sightings near airports and air force bases automatically make it less likely to support the alien visitor case, as we can now conclude that most of the sightings are just ordinary aircraft landing and the people often mistake the angle and configuration of lights for something else, so this becomes the most likely explanation. Add to that the fact that the military uses planes not seen in civilian air service and you can see is it even more likely that people are just mistaken about what they see.
What idiots my husband, his son, and his neighbors must have been for not being able to discern the difference, which you surely would have! Either that, or he is a liar in very good company, including many extremely well-qualified aviation and law enforcement professionals.
Well, this an ad hominem attack on my motives by insinuating that I'm calling people liars or stupid, which I clearly have not. I've just said they are mistaken, which implies no intent whatsoever. The fact that you want to assign motives to me is immaterial to the logical argument we are having here. As I've said previously, what jobs these witnesses have is of matter whatsoever, as anyone can be mistaken about what they see. You need corroborating evidence to back up the sighting--radar track of the object, a bolt that could not be manufactured with current earth technology, an alien who wants to go on Oprah, something more than "There was this weird set of lights in the sky."
So lets sum up: clearly, we still don't have any evidence to support your position that everyone who doesn't believe in UFOs is some kind of closed minded bigot. We also don't have any evidence that this sighting is a filming of an alien spaceship. Please provide the necessary evidence supporting these positions you have taken, otherwise this is something you just choose to believe without any supporting evidence.