Is completely different than mine. Though you quote others who say our existence is meaningless among the stars, ....that we cannot bargain for love, health or money and that we die in obscurity is a belief held by agnostics, if not downright atheiests.

You may be right, but I disagree. It goes against primitive man and cultures who had "offerings" to their gods or spirits, who decorated themselves and held diurnal rites to preserve their fertility, protect their crops, and bring rain. In some societies, the elders were honored at death and many rituals and offerings were made on their earthly resting place. So don't try and tell me our journey here is completely meaningless.

>"It doesn't matter what topic you pick, it is ALWAYS interviews of dubious eyewitnesses or phony authorities or "reports" with no opportunity to cross-examine or even to verify their actual existence. "

That sentence is a complete lie.
Nice try ER, because that's your skepticism at it's worse. "Dubious eyewitnesses" indeed. Here you are couching your disdain for the subject by denigrating anyone who comes forward, whether it's airline pilots, military commanders, presidents, astronauts, radar operators, etc....the list is endless. "Dubious" indeed. You're contemptuous.

>"No opportunity to cross examine or verify their existence".
I guess you haven't been following the Disclosure Project or work done by Steven Bassett. Because both of these operations are bringing together military and scientific witnsses under an amnesty program. if you had watched any of the several hours of their witness testimony, you might just have to eat your words.

I DO agree with you about the hype surrounding the face on Mars. And there are always hucksters out there that grab onto the unknown and make a mockery of it, from Brittany Spears new pregnancy, to Elvis surfacing in England to Barbara Bush being a reptilian.
It's easy to throw the whole baby out with the bathwater, and this is what you are trying to do by dismissing not only the subject, but all of its testimonies, eye witness accounts and 5,000+ trace cases. Why, you can't even explain why our government has classified nearly 50 million ufo documents! Why, they must all be nuts too.

Move along people, nothing here to see. Take ER's point of view. Go home, worry not. Chose oblivion. After all, you don't matter.