On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Scott Wood wrote:

> It is actually interesting that you bring the religious side up.  The reason 
> being is that it seems that more and more lately that the UFO folks have been 
> weaving the whole UFO thing into religion.  Some claim that the UFOs are 
> angles, others that they are demons.

Hmmm, funny, I see most UFO believers as being religious about their beliefs 
in the UFOs being driven by alien life.  A skeptic suggests that they might 
just be ordinary things and their faith sets in and starts to argue.  I 
believe in UFOs and I also believe in life on other planets, I just don't 
think one is the other by default.  I've never seen a UFO that I didn't 
eventually identify and I've seen several things that other folks called a 
UFO (including the so-called "Phoenix Lights" the first half of which really 
were military flares over the Goldwater range - I've seen them before and 
since and saw them that very night from Kitt Peak).  The closest I've come to 
a having to claim a UFO was the one sighting that had me going until I saw 
the same thing the next night and recognized what they were.

Making the leap that that (to you) unidentified light you saw in the sky is 
being piloted by a being from another planet is just not a logical 
conclusion.

Jim.

Jim Scotti
Lunar & Planetary Laboratory
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721 USA                 http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/