Quote Originally Posted by Fisherking
I am most curious as to why it seems to be so forcefully ignored.

Do you think we might be someone else's science experiment?
I think you just provided the answer to your own question. Because of the huge amount of speculation on the part of 'believers' (some of it outright stupid or paranoid) it becomes very tempting to dismiss both the entire UFO crowd and all of the registered observations as mass hysteria.

A UFO is just that: an unidentified flying object. If UFO-watchers were to respect this basic disctinction, stick to it and discard the stories about greens, grays and related (proven) hoaxes, they might be taken more seriously.