Isn't it odd?

[Archae]

Most people on the streets, out in the country, just about anywhere have cameras, most often in their telephones.

We get videos clearly showing plane crashes, car crashes, explosions at industrial fires, much more.

What AREN'T we seeing more of?

Easy answer: UFO's.
Flying saucers, cigar-shaped "motherships," etc.

Oh but there is an excuse!
(I did hear it from one UFO buff...)
"The Greys have cloaking devices on their spacecrafts, to shut off all cameras."

Now we have a political insider, that Podesta guy, claiming the usual "UFO coverup."

Ask any of these people for evidence, and you'll get excuses.

Heck, I saw a UFO, turned out as I got closer it was several orange balloons tied together tethered to a parking lot of a car dealer.

Suppose I had not been able to get closer?

UFO "abductees" turn out to be relating vivid dreams, or simply making shit up to get money and/or fame.

[Tobin S.]

1. It's very seductive to think that extra-terrestrials are real and they are visting us.

I think people's belief in that they are is tied directly to their desire for them to be real and is not a product of any real evidence (because there isn't any).

[Archae]

2. Oh, of course. Star Trek and Star Wars are huge entertainment empires.

Lots of aliens, in both those sets of movies/TV shows.

UFO's are the "fairy stories" of the Cold War.

What would a real "first contact" be like, between aliens and people of Earth?

My best bet would be we'd pick up an alien signal.

[uriel1972]

3. Think it's all part of the "I want to be special" desire...

of Humanity. Was angels/faeries now it's aliens. Humanity seems to want to be the centre of somebodies attention.

[trotsky]

4. XKCD did a comic about that a while ago:

http://xkcd.com/1235/