UFOs, Do They Exist?

How come people who claim they have seen a flying saucer, can never take a decent photo or video of it??? It is so annoying to go to a website that supposedly has the latest UFO sightings and see a smudge on a photo, foggy lights in the distance, or watch a video of some guy, who sounds like he’s been smoking a lot of dope, watch zippy flying lights on the horizon (yes, those are flairs). Whenever there is a newscast with a sound bite saying something like, “A crowd of people saw an unidentified flying object in the sky over New Hampshire—News at 11,” I always have to look. I am usually disappointed though, because no one has ever taken a good photo or video that looks like an actual space ship; the kind you would see in the movies Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. or Independence Day.

I am not saying that I don’t believe them because, really, I am one of those eternal wishful thinkers who hope to see the day when NASA finds life out there beyond our galaxy. However, I still have a healthy amount of skepticism that this will happen. For instance, how come some people see alien space ships and others have never seen one? There are some who claim they have actually been kidnapped by aliens. Isn’t it odd that these alleged aliens pick and choose whom they appear to? What makes “alien spotting” people so special? Supposedly there are many things in this world that go unexplained, and the possibility that life forms from other worlds have visited earth is not impossible, but to date no one has been able to convince me into believing it. The stories are entertaining though, aren’t they?

Marty and I at the Green Market at the new waterfront on Flagler in West Palm Beach.