Yes, who the heck are these so-called UFOlogists anyway? I mean who are the ones who advise wearing tinfoil hats. I've never met such a person, but I have met an impressively large number of people who've had an unusual aerial sighting which they strongly suspect was an alien craft. None of them have been advising their friends to wear a tinfoil hat. ;-)

I think the tinfoil hat thing has probably been promoted by the same smartass people who promote the "little green men" cliche all the time...not genuine researchers or UFOlogists, but sewers of ridicule and deliberate disinformation intended to help discredit the entire field of alien inquiry...or just plain smartasses, period.

I don't use the term "UFO" anymore. I call them "AFOs". A UFO can, after all, be a bird, a balloon, an unusual cloud formation, an unidentified airplane, anything at all really that someone fails to identify. An AFO, well, that's something a bit more specific.