Conclusions

"You have seen the documents. You have heard the testimonies of irreproachable witnesses and the excuses of dogmatic scientists. Will you have the independence of thought required to accept something inexplicable is going on? Or will you be a sheep and believe whatever you are expected to? I won't tell you what to think. Draw your own conclusions."

Occam

"I photographed this UFO in the countryside last night. It was like a fireball blazing in the sky."

"I see."

"What do you think? Is it a meteorite, or something else?"

"Well, Occam's Razor tells us we should always prefer the simplest explanation. So, which one is likelier? That a lump of space rock has been floating around for millions of years, avoiding all that time to hit other heavenly bodies, just to fall to earth at the right time and place for you to take a picture of it?"

"Hum... if you put it that way..."

Al Pacino

"See? There's the proof you wanted! The newspapers confirm that Al Pacino does exist! Do you still doubt that he comes over to my place every Saturday to play cards?"

"See? Scientists admit that there might be life on other planets! Do you still doubt that Egyptian pyramids and crop circles are the work of alien visitors?"

Rigorous

"And remember, students, that ufology is bound by the highest standard of scientific proof. Unless you have solid, incontrovertible evidence, you must NEVER put forward the idea that a UFO is anything else than an alien spaceship. Understood?"

"YES, TEACHER!"

Demarcation

"Yes, we can agree that it's an object. However, it doesn't look to me like it's flying. And it's pretty much identified, too. I'd appreciate it if you stopped wasting my time."

Unidentified

"It was a point of light on the Western horizon, short after sundown. It was hovering there for a while and then went out of sight behind the trees."

"Well, the first thing is to keep an open mind and not rule out any hypothesis, no matter how outlandish it may seem."

"Someone told me it could be Venus."

"Oh, yeah! Right! Pffft."

Identification

Stealth

"If aliens don't have an impossibly advanced camouflage technology, then how to explain the fact that this UFO disguised as a cloud is perfectly indistinguishable from a real cloud?"

Open mind

"I know this idea will never be accepted by those who just reject everything they are not able to understand... But I can't understand how Egyptians could build the pyramids with no help from an advanced civilization, and no one will ever make me accept such an idea!"

Dummy

Somewhere over New Mexico, United Stated. July 1947.

"All ready for the crash test! Clear the area!"

Cover-up

"General, one of our spy drones went down near a populated area. We sent a recovery team, but there are witnesses and I am afraid the secrecy of the operation has been compromised."

"Don't worry. Everything is under control."

"It it wasn't a UFO crash, why did the military intervene? Why did they take the remains away before anyone could take a look at them? They're depriving us from the answer to the greatest enigma in history!"

"He's good. How much are we paying him?"

"Nothing. He doesn't even know he works for us."

Sightings

"Have you ever seen an alien spacecraft?"

"Have you ever seen an unidentified flying object?"

"Have you ever seen strange lights in the sky?"

"Have you ever seen anything unusual when looking up?"

"People who have had a sighting experience"

"How can skeptics keep doubting the reality of alien visits in the face of the testimony of so many eyewitnesses?"

They’re here

"They mutilate cattle. They abduct people. They perform horrible experiments on their victims. And the question is: Why? What goals do they pursue?"

"What the...?"

"It's them! Ha ha ha! They're here! They're here! They're...!"

"What do you mean by 'libel'?"

Culture clash

"Look! It's a god!"

"Look! It's an astronaut!"

Closed bets, closed minds

"Oh, sure! According to you, there is no such a thing as a royal flush! Everyone who ever had one was either a liar or a madman, right?"

"This is your last warning: show-your-cards."

"Whose idea was it to bring the ufologist again?"

I Don't Want To Believe

"The evidence is there for everyone to see: photographs, witnesses, messages in the crops... How longer will our governments deny the obvious reality of alien visits? Why are they so afraid? What are they trying to hide?"

"The president is now shaking what, for lack of a better word, we'll call the 'hand' of the being. Ladies and gentlemen, we're witnessing a historical event: Humanity's first contact with..."

"Once again, our leaders seem to think we are idiots. Who could ever believe that advanced beings would travel countless light years just to see us poor primitives? What is the purpose of this farce? What are they trying to hide?"