[Rainwave]

I’ve seen them...several times in my life. Why do people assume these things are from another planet? Could it be something else, like another country’s breakthrough technology? Or maybe from our own earth..from some inside cavern, or from Antarctica...from some ancient race that has superior technology and has remained hidden..or from another dimension? Or even spiritual phenomenae from God, or even Satan? Why does everyone assume they are from another planet? We think we know everything. I think sometimes we are as ignorant as lab mice.

[Jamestown1630]

They're not all One Thing.

Some are normal aerial things seen but not understood; some are atmospheric effects. Some have been experimental aircraft, some have been the result of mistaken sensory data or psychological phenomena.

Some of the most interesting theories I've heard are variations on the theme that some - or at least the observable effects of some - represent a life form natural to Earth, but one that we just don't understand or recognize yet.

'There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio...'

[Salamander]

I think most of them are demonic.

Fits the “strong delusion” and “principalities of the air”.

Others, like the ginormous silent black triangle that floated majestically over my house, just cool stuff we [don’t officially] have.

:)

[Bob Ireland]

***Why does everyone assume they are from another planet?***

I agree wholeheartedly!
First, they could be some earthly natural phenomenon - completely unknown, undiscovered - but earthly.

Second, they could be a 'projection' - sort of like a cat playing with a flashlight beam or a laser beam.

For my part, I have absolutely no idea what they are, other than 'unidentified'. However, unlike a huge number of people, I do not accept that they are extraterrestrial - until it is unambiguously proven as such. I am holding out for some natural explanation - perhaps not natural at the moment.

[PIF]

We think we know everything. I think sometimes we are as ignorant as lab mice.

—
Almost everything we thing we know is wrong; and what we know is correct is only half the story.

Case in point: mathematician James Clerk Maxwell 200 quaternions (equations) were postulated as field equations. Some time later a self-taught guy named Heaviside, living in his mom’s basement, decided that all but 4 were not abominations and transformed those 4 into vector equations thus defining all we know about the electromagnetic spectrum. The other 196 were discarded and forgotten until N. Tesla and A. Einstein read them; Tesla attempted to make practical use of them discovering AC electricity along the way while Einstein used them in formulation the special theory of relativity.

Absent J.C. Maxwell, Tesla and Einstein would have remained obscure, like 99.9999% of the human race.

[Joe 6-pack]

"We think we know everything. I think sometimes we are as ignorant as lab mice."

C.S. Lewis was not a fan of the terms, "supernatural," or, "paranormal," seeing them as expressions of human vanity, carrying the implication that we had a full understanding of all that was, "natural," or, "normal."

In another 500 or 1,000 years, humanity will look back on our 21st century understanding of, "science," and find our views as ridiculous and naïve as we do those who believed an eclipse was a dragon devouring the sun.

[atc23]

We’re lower than lab mice compared to whomever is operating with impunity in restricted airspace- we’re about as evolved as that sticky buildup behind the stove on the kitchen floor compared to “them”