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One of my gripes against the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis is that the aliens got here well in advance of their flying saucers. People were talking about "men from Mars" many decades before Kenneth Arnold's (first) sighting. Imagination and speculation were the first things to link extraterrestrials to flying saucers, and other than colorful stories, that's still all we've got.
We're making a leap of faith just to conclude that the UFOs are manufactured "strange craft". The ET hypothesis was more attractive when it was thought that Mars or Venus might be capable of hosting neighbors piloting space vehicles. If the realities of life in this solar system were better understood at the time, maybe another solution would have developed instead. As it is, many people have grown up with the belief in the ET hypothesis, and it is ingrained like religion. Sadly, many never even consider other possibilities. There are other valid ideas out there about who or what the visitors are, and they have just as much evidence to support them.Strange craft flying in our sky beyond the capabilities of our own technology. If they are real, and we can't make them, who does? The Extraterrestrial Hypothesis is a logical conclusion to the question of "Who makes them?"
I don't understand why so much attention is focused on the oldest of cases instead of the newer ones.