The thing that I can never get past when seeing people think that UFOs might be extraterrestrial spacecraft is that it's such an enormous logical leap. Going f

The thing that I can never get past when seeing people think that UFOs might be extraterrestrial spacecraft is that it's such an enormous logical leap. Going from "there's something weird in the sky that I can't identify" directly to "therefore, aliens" just doesn't pass the sniff test. There are tons of other possible explanations that are much, much more likely to be true but are discarded out of hand.