Unidentified Flying Objects, Your thoughts on UFO's Options

"…nothing has come from the study of UFOs in the past 21 years that has added to scientific knowledge...further extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be justified in the expectation that science will be advanced thereby." –Edward U. Condon

A UFO is an unidentified flying object which has been identified as a possible or actual alien spacecraft. Such objects include meteors, disintegrating satellites, flocks of birds, aircraft, lights, weather balloons, and just about anything moving within the visible band of electromagnetism. So far, however, nothing has been positively identified as an alien spacecraft in a way required by common sense and science. That is, there has been no recurring identical UFO experience and there is no physical evidence in support of either a UFO flyby or landing.

There are as many photographs of UFOs as there are of the Loch Ness Monster, and they are of equal quality: blurs and forgeries. Other physical evidence, such as alleged debris from alien crashes, or burn marks on the ground from alien landings, or implants in noses or brains of alien abductees, have turned out to be quite terrestrial, including forgeries. The main reasons for believing in UFOs are the testimony of many people, the inability to distinguish science fiction from science, the willingness to trust incompetent men telling fantastic stories, the ability to distrust all contrary sources as being part of an evil conspiracy to withhold the truth, and a desire for contact with the world above. Belief in aliens in UFOs is akin to belief in supernatural beings.

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"UFOlogy is the mythology of the space age. Rather than angels...we now have...extraterrestrials. It is the product of the creative imagination. It serves a poetic and existential function. It seeks to give man deeper roots and bearings in the universe. It is an expression of our hunger for mystery...our hope for transcendental meaning. The gods of Mt. Olympus have been transformed into space voyagers, transporting us by our dreams to other realms."
--Paul Kurtz

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i must appologise as I don't have time to read all the posts, but I have one thought to offer.
Why do we as humans insist on pretending we have knowledge of things we have absolutely no knowledge about? Why do some people scoff and laugh at UFO experiences when they have read NOTHING, know NOTHING and have had ZERO direct experience of them?
It reminds me of people who think it's so silly that some people think JFK was killed by a group of conspirators. Oh, them and their cute theories! Guess who also thinks that it was a conspiracy? The nameas would astound you. The evidence is over whelming-but you ask one of these Nimrods (Biblical name in OT believe it or not) if they've ever talked to a witness, ever read a book, ever tried to connect the facts/contradictions? NO, always NO. BUT I KNOW IT WAS OSWALD!
They know. They know there are no UFO's. They know that LHO killed JFK. They KNOW. How? The same way they know that only idiots believe in Magic and spirits and life after death and reincarnation and destiny and all the other shit we take as given. The stuff we accept as part of life is ridiculous nonsense to them. So don't be one of them. If you know nothing about a topic, shut up. If someone asks you about brain surgery-shut up! Unless you're a brain surgeon.
There is a story about a skeptic whose brother was a psychic/mystic whatever. He says, "I don't believe in it unless I can see it. I don't believe in God, spirits or UFO's."
"Why does the tide go out and come in," the psychic brother asked him.
"Gravity! Everyone knows that!"
"Can you touch it, see it, smell it?"
"No but there is evidence of..."