That UFO reports/cases haven't changed in over 60 years.

That the people who actually see something may mean well but they don't necessarily
know what they are looking at - and saying they are local pillars of the community
does not equal observational experts. Even being a pilot doesn't mean you are an
astronomer or meteorologist.

That the stories from eyewitnesses still tend not to match each other.

That the photographs and video taken of these events are still crappy and
essentially unhelpful.

That there is no physical evidence.

That the military still doesn't know or care how to handle these situations with the
public and press, whether they were actually involved with the sightings or not.

That the media still doesn't know how to report these events without making them
into a joke (NPR played the theme from The Twilight Zone at the end of their program
on the Texas UFO case). Will they follow up on it? Past history says no.

That the event lacked one single real professional in a related field who went
out to investigate it. Saying you work for MUFON does not make you a Ph.D.
scientist. I have studied UFO reports for decades and am an amateur astronomer
to boot. That makes me just as much a UFO expert as them.

Until someone can actually get a decent photo or, much better yet, real solid
evidence, UFO cases will remain in the fringe along with Bigfoot, the Loch Ness
Monster, and ghosts, because anecdotes are not enough.

Before Lindy and others get all upset about any of what I said, I hope what you
will really see here is my request that whatever the UFO phenomenon is, the fact
that so many people keep claiming to see something and being abducted means
something is affecting them, and that needs to be investigated. The media and
authorities so far have done a really crappy job of it, which just makes things
worse for a clueless public. Getting a professional scientist to tackle this issue
without ruining their reputation and career (can you say John Mack) will be the
really hard part. And maybe getting the UFO buffs to accept their findings if
they are anything other than alien visitors will be the other hard part.

That is why I have often referred to this as a religion rather than science. It's about
belief rather than proofs. I for one do not accept that if ETI have been visiting Earth
for ages that not one of them has ever made a mistake or decided to contact us
directly (I'll avoid the old chestnut of why do they only appear to rednecks in the
middle of nowhere) or that the governments on this planet have been able to
successfully hide evidence of aliens and spaceships for decades. Most of them
can't even keep themselves in power, and that is there top priority.

Most UFO cases, when they are not hoaxes, are cases of mistaken identity by
folks who want to believe they saw something extraordinary for whatever reason.
That is what I think the Texas UFO case is.

If you want to prove me wrong, then bring me more than stories and crappy images.