UFO means Unidentified Flying Object.... NOT alien spacecraft.

So...one more person to add to my idiot list. Dr David Clarke.

Have a watch of Dr Clarke here in this beautifully balanced report on UFOs. Or not.

"There have been lots of reports from ordinary people and trained observers..."

Yes, I’m sure there have. And as we know anecdotal evidence is worth sh*t as far as evidence is concerned.

Unidentified flying object does not imply some mysterious other-worldly forces or civilisations landing on earth, massacring cows and abducting yokels in the mid-west of America and subsequently probing them (usually in the rectum, I figure this says far more about the people involved than anything else).

There are many natural phenomenon that can, even to train eyes, look like flying saucers, like this picture of the moon:

There is often simply not enough information to say what an object is with any degree of accuracy, and therefore it becomes an Unidentified Flying Object (although it could actually be a set of lanterns released from a party).

There is of course the other option, that the person is totally crazy or has a fantasy prone personality. These people are much more likely to have deep involvement in fantasies and out-of body hallucinations.

Also, interestingly, they are far more likely to be devoutly religious. Which i think really says something about the stupidity of religion, but everyone has their little sacred cows.

The point that really underlies all this is how poor the media are at reporting these stories, and I know this ahs been raised many times before but NOTHING EVER CHANGES! This piece is so fantastically "open minded" that it has indeed let its brains fall out. There is no mystery here, yes these are unidentified, but no they are not aliens. I would hope that if aliens had crossed interstellar space (and it IS possible, i only hope it actually happens someday) they try to make a little more contact than their current poor efforts. You would think such futuristic races would be a little more...futuristic. And be able to land on our planet. And not crash in Roswell. And actually just take a few cows and breed them, not cut them up and leave them in fields. Fools.

So the media need to stop pandering to the true believers, and realise that the chances of any of this being true and witheringly slim and to report it like it is:

"these have not been identified, but it is overwhelmingly probably that they are natural phenomenon or manmade objects".

Don't open the floor to crap.

Chris

p.s. Lizo Mzimba is  bloody fool too.