“...the UFO subject is so powerful that it rattles our very grasp on reality...”
Yes it does ! LOL !
NO ONE. Particularly people who cling to the past.
I remember a psychology professor who defined sanity as the distance between our perception of reality and reality itself. The smaller the distance, the saner one is.
The problem is that reality is a moving target. And human beings vary in their willingness to adapt to a rapidly changing reality.
On the other hand, you have people in the Woke Movement who are completely unplugged from reality because they believe reality is what you want it to be. The distance between their perception of reality and actual reality is almost infinite because their perception is untethered from reality.