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…you would have to be a fool if you off handedly discredited or discounted every single one of the people that report unusual encounters.
The plural of anecdote is not data.
Thousands of people, not all of them obviously stupid, claim to have seen ghosts, Elvis, Bigfoot etc.
And most of us are aware that there is almost certainly life elsewhere. Doesn’t mean that they’re here. The almost inconceivable (to us) vastness of time and space makes it very unlikely that their visit would coincide with the momentary flash of light that is human civilisation.