As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena
There's a real problem with people being close-minded towards anything that seems fantastical.  This includes scientists and other professionals who ought to know better.Obviously it's unscientific to jump to conclusions and assume that anything that doesn't make sense must be aliens or magic or whatever but at the same time, it's also unscientific to ignore physical observations just because they seem like something that might support what fringe idiots believe.