I have to think the same thing. I think you have to have a UFO mindset to see UFO’s. I have to say that I have seen strange things but I don’t think I have seen anything strange enough to immediately go to the UFO explanation.
I believe in UFOs, mainly because of the lame excuses the scientists/government come up with when something REALLY weird is spotted.
That being said, a couple of times I THOUGHT I saw one but then realized it was just some trick of light. One night I was up in an Alberta campground just at dusk and saw a bright light moving rapidly across the sky - less than 10 seconds from horizon to horizon - very businesslike. I was flummoxed for a momeny until I remembered reading that under certain light conditions, one could see a satellite passing overhead if the light was right.
The other time I was a Camp Pendleton, looked up, and saw something that made the hair on the back of my head stand up - absolutely freaking weird. I went through the usual identification scenario, "it's a bird, it's a plane, it's . . ." to no avail.
The damned thing looked like the upper part of a "#" sign lying horizontally, with the upper bar a tad shorter than the lower. The sky was clear blue and the "thing" just hung there, pitch black, like someone had written on the sky in India ink.
I watched, slack-jawed, for some seconds. Then the "thing" turned silver and began to move. It turned out it was one of those small radar-domed aircraft with a twin tail that was making a slow turn and the light just played tricks. The lower bar of the "#" was the wings, the upper the dome and the verticals the rudders. Jesu, - I then knew what people who saw a UFO felt like and never mocked anyone reporting a sighting again.