“Do you deny that there have been crazy people throughout human history?”
Oh brother. That’s as silly as me asking you if you deny that there have been sane people throughout human history. My answer to you is, no, I don’t deny any such thing.
“Do you deny that these crazy people have claimed to have seen some pretty crazy things?”
Another silly question, and begs some additional related and more interesting questions:
Do you deny that these crazy people have claimed to have seen some pretty normal things?
Do you deny that sane people have claimed to have seen some pretty crazy things?
Do you deny that sane people have claimed to have seen some pretty normal things?
“Do you wish to deal with why nobody before the technological age claimed to have seen aliens coming out of a flying disco disk?”
Certainly, if they held belief systems or a limited propensity to abstraction, they would call “aliens” by some other name. Gods, angels, devils, demons, spirits, mosters, mysteries. I’m certain as well that acient peoples had no experience with disco, of which I am somewhat envious. :)
What you consider to be “obvious” is pretty humorous.
And yet their descriptions are nowhere close to describing a disco light UFO and bug eyed aliens. Demons and angels and spirits and monsters were all clearly described in the ancient world; none of them even remotely resembled the modern mythological creatures that UFO kooks claim to have seen.
Why is that?
Summer of the 3rd grade, back in the sixties. Me and a bunch of other kids were playing nighttime "Hide and Go Seek". I was 'it. I leaned against the tree (home base), counted to one hundred, then turned to go after my victims.
It was a very clear night and a light in the sky caught my eye. It looked just like a falling star. I was excited to see one so I watched. The 'star' streaked acroos the sky and then it abruptly stopped. It sat motionless for several seconds and then streaked off in a different direction.
The 'star' traversed over half the sky and then stopped again. Once more it sat motionless, but still bright, for a few seconds. After that, it tore off again in another direction and disappeared. An awesome sight for a little boy but I went back to playing hide & seek just the same.