Patrick, I feel for ya, love. But in a way, it's very difficult to find the kind of verification that's needed for aliens existence outside of anecdotal evidence. Most of the stuff that's out there amounts to "he said that this guy said........" OR my own experience where I viewed a saucer-shaped object in the sky, that floated around over the town I was driving in, and then sped off.......
The thing is that my story really doesn't do anything or prove anything, really. It's just my story and my experience, which I haven't been able to postulate what it was other than just that it was
really weird.
Now, I'm of course interested in the stories of people who have seen UFO phenomenon and have claimed abductions, and partially because of my own experience as stated above. The hard part is taking these experiences and turning them over to any means of being peer-reviewed, tested, and therefore validated by the scientific community.
Out of body experiences/astral travel, homeopathy, and many other so-called "pseudo-science" is given the same harsh scrutiny. And you know what? It's OK. I wouldn't expect it to be given any more passes than questioning the validity of the Flood Myth or Young Earth Creationism.
What I'm MORE interested in is how paranormal experiences shape us as people, and what we can learn from them, and how we can evolve into better people with each other.
That's just my two cents. :trampo: