I don't understand what skeptics do with the Navy pilot UAP/UFO sightings. Clearly these craft are exhibiting flight characteristics and engineering that have no known origins on this planet - or at least let's hope not - because if they originate from our adversaries, we are royally screwed. A reminder of the facts: The craft exhibit no known flight required surfaces. No exhaust or thermal plume. Make right angled turns. Instantaneous acceleration and stops - which would turn any human pilot into orange juice. Trans medium travel from air to water. Speeds that so far have been unattainable by any earthly engineered aircraft. What do you do with these observations? Tell these highly-trained, best of the best, flying multi-million dollar aircraft pilots in our military they don't know what the hell they are talking about? C'mon....
Here's the other thing: if you think that the Navy pilot UAP sightings are the only example of legitimate witness reports or sightings your ignorant of the data. That's not meant as an insult, it just means you haven't taken a serious look at vetted witness sightings, reports, or for that matter - photographs. The fact is there are thousands of sightings going back hundreds of years from reliable witnesses that are as yet unexplained and those are just the ones we know about. We also know there are plenty of witnesses - especially commercial pilots - who refuse to make an official report for fear they will be called wingnuts - just as is intimated here. Google the following UFO events then just explain them away: The McMinville UFO photo (remember this was before digital manipulations existed), Japanese air cargo FLT 1628, the Cash-Landrum incident, the Malstrom Nuclear missile incident, and the Ariel school report in Zimbabwe. (Even as adults their reports of what happened hasn't wavered in decades.) Those are just the tip of the iceberg. If all of these events can be explained away as hallucinations, hoaxes, incorrect identification of existing craft, weather events, or something else, or are just the result of substance-induced imaginations then that phenomena is even more rare than the idea these are intelligent beings visiting our planet. Name one other similar event in history that can even come close to the scope and breadth of this one that can be dismissed in a similar fashion. You can't, because it doesn't exist.
We now know they are likely billions of earth-like worlds in our galaxy alone. Last estimate I heard was that there's a potential of two trillion galaxies in the universe. Let's put two and two together here. The chances are extremely likely that other intelligent lifeforms have developed on some of those planets. And please don't give me the tired, old-argument, "Even so...we're too far away for a visit." Of course that's true, if you use our understanding of conventional propulsion (which these UAPs don't appear to use.) What about for a civilization that's hundreds of year in advance of our engineering? What if that civilization is thousands of years ahead of us? What about millions? (As astronaut Storey Musgrave has hypothesized...is he a wingnut too?) So...why haven't they landed at the UN or the Whitehouse and shooks hands with world leaders? Asking that question of a civilization that has figured out intergalactic travel to a civilization that hasn't even walked on Mars yet - and has thousands of nuclear warheads aimed at each other threatening to innihilate the planet - is like asking why we haven't initiated diplomatic relationships with the common ground squirrel. What's the point? Furthermore to assign all human psychological motivations and purpose to an alien civilization is ridiculous.