Even if the vast majority can be written off as misidentifications, delusions, fantasies, mirages or outright hoaxes there still remain a kernel of cases that represent something beyond our realms of understanding. Like the Disclosure addicts of today, we at SUFORS wanted the public and the authorities to acknowledge that extraterrestrial craft and their occupants were visiting us on a regular basis.

From the sceptical point of view this is all tosh. Millions of witnesses can be wrong, because human witnesses are not very trustworthy especially when they view something unusual under stressful conditions. Venus can easily turn into a spacecraft full of tentacled aliens that seems to be following your car, or the Moon can look like an extraterrestrial vehicle landing in your back garden. I’ve had cases where people have excitedly told me they’ve seen UFOs in the sky only to discover they have seen laser displays, or particularly bright stars. Most ufologists get all types of reports that they can easily identify.