We have extremophiles that live in places we used to believe were IMPOSSIBLE to survive, such as in the deep ocean. We are constantly finding new ‘species’ from the deep ocean we never new existed.
Yet... even though many see it with their own eyes, we don’t believe that there could be some form of ‘life’ that exists in the upper layers of our atmosphere or that could even travel beyond our atmosphere.
I find that odd.
I agree with you. The ridicule of eye whitnesses borders on the pathological. If science cannot define it or if something has not been discovered then it doesn’t or can’t exist. One must be a qualified observer to observe. Guess the rest of us are just plain blind.