[cgbg]

The UFO/ET subject is fascinating but offers little in the way of solid evidence.

The way I think about these issues is to imagine an ant walking around the streets of Chicago.

The ant does not have the mental capacity to comprehend the purpose of Chicago or its inhabitants. All of the daily drama we take for granted is a total mystery to the ant.

The point is that there are limits to our understanding based on limits to our intelligence and sensory and instrumentation capacity.

It is a major error of many humans with a variety of beliefs and traditions to claim certainty that we are the highest pinnacle of creation, the most intelligent species that there is.

Our "evidence" may be no more compelling that the ant's "evidence" about what is happening in Chicago.

The UFO phenomenon (and its variations) are what is called a "clue" that we are like the ants in Chicago--what we don't know is greater than what we do know.

It is not necessary to accept or reject strange ideas that are "not supported by evidence". Just hear them, file them away, and don't be too quick to attack those who claim they have witnessed "crazy" events or beings.

They may have gotten a momentary glimpse and a tiny bit of insight about what is happening in the cosmic Chicago.

[Rockingham]

Well-reasoned and well-stated. It occurred to me recently that, in addition to the certainty of death and taxes, there is at least one other thing that is more or less universally true: the world is not entirely as we think it is. No matter how certain one may be in one's thinking, smugness is folly because being wrong from time to time, even on big things, is part of the human condition.

For me, there are a handful of UFO cases that are solid enough on the facts as to suggest that at least some UFOs are real objects likely of extraterrestrial origin. Yet I am not at all certain of that and hope for more and better information.