Yes, well, I get a little irritated and sarcastic when it comes to discussing people's attitudes to this particular subject, as you may have noticed.

I've seen sheer smug ignorance and bloody-minded conventional stubbornness masquerading as "common sense" so many times in this life by now that I am really seriously fed up with it. It's not based on knowledge of anything. It's based on fear of change, and a desire to be "right" and make others wrong.

The most likely thing to happen to anyone who sees a "UFO" and attempts to tell people in general about it is ridicule. That ridicule has stemmed directly from official government policies which were started up in the mid-50's in the USA, following some very dramatic incidents. Ridicule was thought to be the most effective way of shutting people up and destroying their credibility. It is directly from that policy that ridiculous cliches like "little green men" have come. I know of no incident where little green men have been seen. Not one. I know of some where grey creatures have been seen, and humanoids of other descriptions (some quite similar to us Earthlings), but no little green men. Yet, a standard rhetorical device of the conventional mind that wants to dump on and ridicule anyone who takes UFO's seriously is "little green men". It's so predictable. Just wait for some asshole to say it, his lip curled with a sneer...

I sneer right back at him, because he is being an asshole, and his comment is based on FEAR. Fear and ignorance, and a desire to have everything under his control forever...so that the World as he thinks it is will never, ever change, and will remain totally safe and predictable...and he will always be "right". Many women make the tragic mistake of marrying such a "right man", and spend the rest of their lives wondering where they went wrong.

(I'm a man, but I notice that it is almost always men who are the most vociferous promoters of the kind of ignorant attitude I have described above. They are the masters of obstinate negativism toward anything they didn't think of themselves, because if they didn't think of it, they don't own it! The USA, at present, is a very male-dominated society, as evidenced in its choice of male political leaders, its violent entertainment, its capital punishment, and its psychotically aggressive foreign policies. Such a society prides itself on its inflexibility and secrecy and domination of others. Its heroes are asshole aggressive fantasy characters like John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson, Arnold Schwarzenneger and such...psychotics with a way-out-of-control hostility problem. Such hostility is a byproduct of extreme fear.)

And it is extreme fear and arrogance which causes people to automatically ridicule others for having the nerve to report something new and unusual and not back off about it. In former times, people who did stuff like that got burned by the Inquisition as "witches" or "heretics". Remember? Under Mao, they got a bullet in the back of the head.

Be proud of yourselves, assholes! You have a lot of company among the great murderers of history.