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Firstly, kudos for actually coming back to respond. I appreciate that.

Secondly, your comments:

"Because most UFO experiance stories read like BAD sci-fi."

Most that you've read, I would wager is more accurate. I'd up that wager with the idea that I've most likely read more accounts than you have. Some are indeed Alice-in-Wonderland loonfests. Some are grounded reports from grounded people.

"Where they land becuase if I had traveled light years to visit a planet I would not choose to then land in remote areas of little interest."

A common criticism. We don't often know the motivations of our terrestrial "aliens", what is logical about thinking we can guess our way into knowing what a true alien is trying to hide?

"Genetic material gathering.....the manystories regarding alians interest in us as a source for that for one reason or another."

Or to see how we react to being violated in a most basic way, and manipulated. The genetic collections may have more purpose than gathering material. The Nazi's had Mengele, Saddam had Dr. Germ and Al Douri, the aliens (if real) have whomever they have. Sometimes medical experiments have both physical and psychological goals.

"Who they choose........I do not recall ever reading seeing or hearing a story about Nobel Laureates being abducted."

But you do have stockbrokers, homemakers, engineers, families coming home from church, and a myriad of other folks who are claimants of visits. Social strata, income level, education, or race don't seem to matter. The "Bubba/Bubbette in the trailer park" is stereotype.

"Only people who appear to have mental health issues beyond kust the belief they were contacted."

That's just plain nasty and illogical. What's next, "they're mainly jewish"? Come on, that's lame.

"Belief in UFO encounters is widespread. But people believe in many foolish things. The Philadelphia Experiment, Scientology, the heavens Gate Cult, Rev. Jim Jones, you name it and there is always a new sucker waiting."

As I said earlier, not all of us who wonder about such things are Heaven Gaiters or Raelians. We deal with the world as it is, and leave fantasy to the nutballs.

But you do have stockbrokers, homemakers, engineers, families coming home from church, and

Ummm, more often, it seems, buck-toothed, nearly illiterate, back-woods types, or other under-employed types with psychological problems ... HARDLY the 'stockbrokers, homemakers, engineers, families' you purport.

Attention seekers, the product of our unconscious or the victims of well-executed hoaxs and observed by naive, untrained observers.

Here's an example:

Instructions How to Build Birthday Candle Engine Powered UFO Fire Balloons
Police Chopper Attacked by UFO in Kentucky -- Couple Confesses to Launching Dry Cleaner Bag UFO Fire Balloon
For Sale: Slightly Used UFO -- Needs New Candle -- Contact the Sheriff --
Homepage for Larry Robinson -- UFO Debunker --

or:

1) Mythological Underpinnings
"The inner face of outer space is where you meet the dreams you race."
- Rimbaud
"As our dreams show very clearly, UFOs come from the unconscious background, which always expresses itself in numinous ideas and images...Civilized man, like primitive man, is mindful of the gods, of the spirits, and of fate and the magical qualities of time and place."
- Carl Jung, Flying Saucers, a Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies
"Without doubt, there are significant surface differences between UFO encounters, angelic visitations, shamanic journeys, and near-death experiences. Yet in all of these realms we find archetypal images of initiation involving otherworldly journeys amid extraordinary - and apparently autonomous - beings. "
- Keith Thompson, Aliens and Angels