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I saw a UFO a couple of years ago. No vehicle - just unexplained lights. A row of 5 green lights was coming straight at our car as if an airplane was landing on the highway. Another row of lights approached the first at a right angle and it continued to drop lower and lower - heading straight for us. My husband hit the brakes and stopped. We were just about to drive in the ditch to avoid a collision when it disappeared. We both got out and heard no sound. I contacted a pilot we know to see what he thought it was. He had no explaination and said in his opinion most pilots believe in UFOs. There may have been a perfectly logical explanition but at this time it's still an unidentified flying object. Not that it matters but I'm a 50+ year old, church going, Republican grandma.

The casual dismissal of UFO's may be wishful thinking, engaged in by people who cannot face this awful possibility. There have simply been too many detailed stories, for too long, from too many witnesses. The attempts to explain these sightings in some other manner are, generally, almost laughably weak.

Equally dangerous is the assumption that we should be seeking out aliens through the government-funded "Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence" or SETI. As has been pointed out, contact between an advanced civilization and
a far more primitive one has usually or always, in human history, been devastating for the primitive culture. In the context of extraterrestrial contact, that primitive culture would be US, folks. Think about it. And that's even apart from the possibility that the advanced civilization might actually be hostile.