[_Jim]

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

[Frank_Discussion]

That's amazing. Truly outstanding that you dug up a month-old thread to basically say:

"Ufology - It's all in their heads!"

Okay, if that's a comforting thought for you, great. However, how it "seems" to you is not reality. While there is a far number of charlatans and attention seekers in the subject area, most reporters aren't looking for public attention. That explains for the most part, based on the real demographics, why you see such an emphasis on Heaven's Gate types and Raelians, etc. The squeaky, loony wheels get the grease.

Bubba in the trailer part often wants the notoriety, the people with more serious lives just report their sightings to MUFON or one of the other private investigative groups. Then they get back to there lives, and you don't hear much about them.

Your focus on amateur-hour P.T. Barnums as the norm is the same tactic as the liberals saying Cindy Sheehan is mainstream. That's not a legacy you want to follow, is it?

Good Day.