Just watched the 60 Minutes segment on UFO disclosure. Wow.

[Chainfire]

65. I think people make light of it just as they would if people were talking about their experience

with the Easter bunny or the tooth fairy or other magic. If folks want to call unidentified phenomena alien spacecraft, they have a lot of explaining to do before I will be impressed.

One of my heroes, Dr. Carl Sagan said that the one thing he hoped he left his students with was a functioning bullshit meter. There are plenty of things we, as a species, don't understand and we have been making up answers at least since we started walking upright. That is how religions came about.

Some of us ridicule positions that we find absurd. No one would be ridiculed for describing something that they saw, it is when they start spinning yarns in their interpretations of what they saw that brings out the worst in us skeptics.

Some of us understand that we don't understand even a tiny part of what the Universe is about, but when someone tries to "explain" it to us we want, proof and hard evidence; "Just the facts Ma'am."

I consulted my crystal balls and I predict that this phase will come and go like it did in the 60s.