[Skybird]

95-98% of sightings are said to have been explained by natural, meteorological or technical phenomenons. A majority of these sightings may have been wrong conclusions by the people giving the reports, but were given in good believe or intention nevertheless - the people filing them in really did not know any better. To say most reports were given by hippies and drunken people is not only not true, but idiotic. as a matter of fact a lot of reports were coming from highly trained professional personnel like pilots, radar operators, scientific technicians, military experts.

So 2% of reports remain that so far nobody was able to explain withiout needing to seriously distort our knoweldge about technology and nature, or straight lying about events on earth. I once held high interest in the issue, and red a lot about it. most literature represents agendas of professional "I want to believe" organisations or not less professional "whatever you say I will forever doubt it" organisations and authors. Only three books survived of my former library on the matter.

the phenomenon exists in the meaning of that people talk about it and that it has a real representation in public mind not only of modern culture, but ancient cultures as well, and is reflected in the mythologies of many local and foreign peoples as well. This does not mean that the content, the subject of the phenomenon is what we label it like in the modern present: "alien astronauts", "UFOs", whatever. I came to the conclusions that not only there is not sufficient data available right now to build valid working theories on the issue - it maybe also is beyond our reach to raise that needed information basis. Therefore I have put the issue on ice and rejected to form premature opinions or conclusions on it. Which means practically that I keep myself open and interested to all directions.

Just that old Fox Mulder poster: "I want to believe" - that is a red rag for me. We should wish to know. Just "believing" any explanation is worthless.