To point out the obvious, UFOs do exist! Otherwise all of the claims would have been logically explained. The ones that haven't might not have been little green men in extra-terrestrial craft, but they are indeed unidentified flying objects.

What I find objectionable is that the skeptics aren't really skeptics. A skeptic would look for a rational explanation for the reported phenomenon while keeping an open mind about the possible outcome of the investigation. To paint with a broad brush, all of the skeptics I have come across are debunkers. They have already made up their minds that there are no other intelligent species in the universe than man. We're the only ones who exist and because we haven't figured out how to do the things that are reported, they can't possible have actually happened.

There are a few things that make me believe that there is at least the possiblity of intelligent life in the universe coming to visit for whatever reason.

One - any time there is debris associated with a ufo report, all of it is recovered by the gov't. Kecksburg and Roswell are good examples. If Roswell was indeed a secret gov't test designed to spy on the USSR bomb tests, they could have at least left the string and the balloon debris while recovering the classified stuff. Since they took every scrap it looks funny. No explanation was given for Kecksburg.

Two - The Gov't goes out of it's way to overexplain to the point of using explanations that don't fit (swamp gas in an area that has never experienced it before (or since for that matter)) or the continued explanations for Roswell.

Three - Gov't interference with reporting by military personnel and airline pilots. This might be explainable if what was seen was a military test aircraft, but over the years the gov't has never come forward and acknowledged that this sighting was in actuallity this test aircraft. Aside from classified missions (U-2/SR-71) I can't think of any reason the gov't wouldn't come out and say, "These sightings on this day were test flights of the F-117 or the B-2 bomber."

Four - The continued denial that Area 51, Groom Lake exists! The worst kept secret of the US but it doesn't exist.

Five - Plain mathmatics! A nearly infinite universe = a possibility of other life a percentage of which is possibly intelligent = a smaller percentage that is possibly more intelligent/advanced than we are = the possibility that they are exploring as we are attempting to do.

Who knows when the next revolutionary break through will come and suddenly the things that weren't possible will be taken for granted as every day occurences.