Are some UFOs alien spacecraft?
There’ s no reason why they shouldn’t be. However, there’ s a guiding rule in science, known as Occam’s Razor, which basically says ” don’ t assume anything that you don’ t have to.” The simplest, most mundane explanation that fits the facts is the most preferable (and most likely to be right). Alien spacecraft from ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ In the case of UFOs, there are a large number of candidate explanations – aircraft, satellites, meteors, bright planets and stars, unusual clouds, hoaxes, journalistic misrepresentation, and so on. Only when these have been systematically eliminated should we move on to consider more exotic possibilities, and among the latter, poorly-understood natural phenomena, such as ball lightning and earthquake lights (which can appear to move in a controlled way) and advanced military hardware, demand attention well ahead of the extraterrestrial hypothesis. My personal opinion is that although other intelligence may exist commonly in the Universe,