UFOs

Right up front....  I don't think we've been visited by ET.  As time goes by, I will talk in this blog about specifics related to the UFO phenomenon.  For now, though, just a couple of points.

1) Please stop saying "It's arrogant to think we are the only civilization in the universe."  No one thinks or says that.  No one, that is, except UFO believers when they need a straw man to argue against.  I personally think it's a virtual certainty that there are technological civilizations out there.  Somewhere.  There's just too much real estate for me to believe we're alone. It's possible I'm wrong, though.  There is the "Rare Earth" hypothesis, that the combination of conditions on Earth that led to life is so improbable that they will only very rarely be duplicated.  Recent findings make that notion questionable, but in fact no one knows. 

2) Please stop lecturing me on all the irrefutable evidence that ET has visited.  Stop lecturing me about it and show it to me.  I've looked at the evidence I can find.  The evidence that is readily available to the public.  None of it constitutes anything like proof of UFO visitation.  I'll admit that I can't immediately explain everything you might show me.  But the fact that I can't immediately explain it does not mean it's ET.  You might think it's ET.  I suppose you're welcome to believe that if you want.  But don't pretend that you've "proved" anything to anyone who is moderately skeptical of unsupported claims.

3) Please stop telling me that I need to "open my mind."  My mind is at least as open as yours.  I'm ready to enthusiastically adopt ET 3 seconds from now if you show me something that warrants it.  I'm not, however, willing to leap across the gap left by the missing proof. That does not make me closed-minded.

4) Please stop telling me that asking for proof is asking for too much.  This is a physical phenomenon we are talking about.  If you don't think that, then I have no time for you anyway.  And if it's a physical phenomenon, you need to bring physical proof to the table.  Not some odd or "unexplained" video.  Not somebody -- even somebody you consider credible -- telling a story. Telling a story about something is not proving it.  Even if the person telling the story is a police officer or a pilot.  There are too many reasons why that story might be wrong.

For many reasons, ET visitation is a vanishingly remote possibility.  To convince many people that it's a reality is going to take more -- much more -- than is out there now in the way of evidence.  Show it to me and I'll be on your team in a heartbeat.