It seems to me that people elsewhere in the world accept the fact that some people have seen strange things.

In US they label people that see strange things with words such as, idiot, loony or some other degrading name.

If you follow the above link you will find that many of the "loonies" are American astronauts, now that is a revelation that does not speak well for the space agencies if these people are truly "loonies or idiots."

Many people do not accept the "loony" terminology for astronauts, so they suspect that there is something going on behind the scenes, something that the general public is not allowed to see or hear.

There are also people that are terribly afraid of anything that seems out of the ordinary, such people will go to any lengths to assert their "dominance" in such discussions as UFO's, even though they do not understand the subject matter at all.