Quote:and before this I can't say I ever met anyone who encountered aliens.
You still haven't.
No one has ever been abducted by an alien.
No one has ever seen a spaceship of extraterrestrial origin.
No one has alien implants.
No one has ever been probed by space beings.
The people of Alpha Kentauri aren't coming here and mutilating our cattle or make pretty patterns in wheat fields or building pyramids/stone circles...or any of the rest of it. Wil Smith and Tommy Lee Jones aren't working to keep the secret from us - there is no secret to keep.
Belief in aliens (abductions and all the rest of it) is simply another variety of religious-type magical thinking.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax