You've already decided it's nonsense and a cult! You said so. All I believe is that I want to know what authorities know, and since ufos are physical phenomena -- photographs, footage, accounts from pilots and others whom we wouldn't just automatically dismiss as cranks etc -- what the explanation is for all of this. If the explanation is terrestrial then fine, but I do know they've given up attributing these things to Venus, clouds, ball lightning, and aurora activity and reflections of the moon. Well, I should say they've given up, apart from Neil degrass Tyson, who is always good for a laughing bear 'nothin' to see here folks' performance on CNN. Helps pay for kids' college education, I guess. But apart from him they're stopped with these lame excuses.

@Druvius So eating crow actually has the taste of sand, as one buries one's head. I wondered what the debunkers would do. Thanks for the clarification.