"True, though. It's about the only branch of science that will look at the phenomenon."
That is why ufology exists. The "establishment" sciences do have better things to do. And I mean that - astronomers provide validation data to physicists, physicists flow it down to engineering researchers, and that improves the world. Biologists down to doctors and medical suppliers, and so on.
Ufology will continue on it's own, trying to figure out what is what with the things in the sky. For my part, as an engineer, I find it important to figure out what might make such a vehicle work, in such cases as it may be a vehicle. Assuming they are physical, then they aren't magic, and we can build them ourselves.
It isn't a bad side pursuit. :)
First, they aren't magic. Reasoning by similarity (magic) is not the way engineers make progress. If Watt reasoned by similarity he wouldn't have seen the relation between a horse and a steam kettle. Now, if somebody wants to build an FTL ship, he needs to find something other than electric, magnetic, or gravitational forces to drive it. That's where physicists work, looking for signs of something going on where everybody has been looking but seeing nothing. Nothing propelled by EM can exceed the speed of light, it's not in the cards. But, ordinary matter could exceed c even though it has electrons and protons and therefore EM effects. Electrons and protons are not EM phenomena even though they exhibit EM phenomena under certain circumstances; something else could possibly drive them to FTL speeds and possibly very easily. The mass, time and length problems are specific to EM phenomena. The math used is that of solid state mechanics--very strange if you think about it.