As a kid I was fascinated by all this stuff, but once I grew older and read the sceptical explanations for such incidents, they sounded pretty reasonable to me.
Even when dealing with the very few genuinely puzzling cases there is nothing that points to extraterrestrials.
There's a ton of known and unknown atmospheric and even purely optical effects that could explain sightings.
And of course people might simply lie, be mistaken or see what they wan't to see. No scientist, politician or high ranking military man is immune to that.
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