First, like I said a technologically advanced race is not going to come here. And if they do come here, they are not going to smash into the desert. It defies logic.
The Roswell incident isn't the "be all - end all" of the UFO phenomenon, but it is the most famous. There have been hundreds of thousands of other incidents and reported sightings of these craft, many of them by reliable and competent witnesses. Lots of them are military pilots and aviation professionals. Over the last 60-odd years, too many of these credible reports have been compiled to easily dismiss.
The Roswell incident isn't even the best of the lot. There are lots more interesting, and better documented stories than Roswell. You don't hear about most of them, only because the Roswell thing exploded into the press, and grabbed the attention of the whole country before the military could put the brakes on it.
They learned a big lesson from that one incident, and subsequent military interaction with UFOs was done under much tighter control.
As to your opinion that "a technologically advanced race is not going to come here", well, that's just an assertion - an opinion. Who knows what reasons an advanced race would have for coming here? There are lots that I can think of, off the top of my head. An advanced extraterrestrial race could well have very good reasons for coming here.
You could say the same thing about explorers of the 15th and 16th centuries. They traveled long distances to places that they had zero knowledge of, and made contact with civilizations that were much less advanced than they were. We know what their motivations were. Perhaps an advanced race of aliens might have a similar motivation. Perhaps they're simply cataloging alien civilizations. A scientific mission. Who knows?
The point is, an advanced race might be compelled to visit this planet for their reasons of their own.
And, like I said in an earlier post, the craft that crashed in the desert outside Roswell could have been a surveillance craft that experienced a mechanical malfunction. Could have happened. It happens to all technical systems.
Anyway, it's stimulating conversation. I know that you feel strongly that logic defies the whole concept of alien visitation, but that's cool. I'm enjoying the conversation.
“Anyway, it’s stimulating conversation. I know that you feel strongly that logic defies the whole concept of alien visitation, but that’s cool. I’m enjoying the conversation”
Me too. This is why I love Freerepublic. You can actually have intelligent, thought provoking conversation :)
Glibness aside ...
Some of the smartest students in the world go to Hillsdale. Hundreds of students saw a UFO — I forget if it was in the 60s or 70s.
I imagine this would be a good site to check for mass witnessing:
UFO Sightings Worldwide
http://www.noufors.com/ufo_sightings_worldwide.html
I had assumed that cameras in i-phoes would have found plenty by now. But maybe as our technology advances, they get more camera shy? Heck if I know. In all seriousness, I think there is intelligent life out there. And it concerns me that leading figures such as Louis Farakhan are openly claim they are taking orders from E.T.s. [As well as Kusinich — sic]