I love UFOs because UFOs tell us a lot about how we deal with non-reproducible observations. Walk outside and see a green, glowing light that hovers then disappears? You can walk outside again for the rest of your life and never see it again. Does that mean you didn&#x27;t see anything? Of course not.<p>This really messes with people&#x27;s heads. The rationalists will say that since we can&#x27;t independently observe it, it might as well not exist. Folks who have a deep mythology as part of their worldview will simply incorporate their observation into their mythology.<p>Even cooler is the fact that <i>something</i> is obviously going on that we can&#x27;t categorize or figure out. (See thunderstorm sprites and jets as a recent example). Is it one phenomenon? Highly unlikely. But beats me how many different and really cool things there are out there to discover. I&#x27;m sure some of these may take hundreds of years to nail down, if ever.<p>And then the government gets involved and -- get this -- starts deliberately fucking with people about it. Hey, that wasn&#x27;t a new stealth bomber, that was probably aliens. While it may have confused the Soviets, it was also a deliberate attempt to mislead the voters. I&#x27;m not a constitutional expert but seems to me the one thing that ought to carry the severest penalty is government officials in a democracy deliberately trying to mislead the public about critical issues.<p>And then we have them pawning their B.S. off on mentally ill people. Nice. Very classy.<p>UFOs tell us a lot more about ourselves than they do anything from another planet. Unfortunately, much of what they tell us is rather unpleasant.