Let's just say that I am in a prime position to know things that the typical man-on-the-street doesn't..
Of course you are. Conspiracy Theorists all claim to have "special knowledge". That way, they can argue from a claimed position of Authority, and no-one can actually check on their bona fides, becasue those bona fides are... ahem, classified.
When I asked you earlier to
"show your credentials", I didn't mean for you to just tell me your name rank and serial number... any old "man-in-the-street" can do that. What I want to see is some documentary evidence that you are who you claim to be (a verifiable photo of you in Vietnam would be a start. A personally taken photograph of you at Hill AFB and/or Travis AFB in some place the public might not to have access to would be another starter).
Since you claim to have been a pilot at Travis, that would make you an officer, so you will know what is hanging on the right hand side in the foyer of the O Club as you go through the main entrance. Its been there since 1944, (and it was there when I was stationed at Travis in 1982 for six months while I was on an AN/APN59B and AN/APS80 radar equipment course) so it had to have been there when you claim to have been there.
which explains why I have stated for the record that the UFOs in question are those of extraterrestrials,
You have yet to provide any EVIDENCE of this...
but then again, the Air Force beat me to the punch in regard to ET visitation back in the 1940's and again in its intelligence reports in 1952, which concluded that UFOs were extraterrestrial crafts.
Does even it enter your thinking at all that they may have been incorrect?
Have you ever wondered why I have also stated for the record that the process placing us on the road to ET disclosure has begun? Still years away, but the process has now begun. When the story finally breaks, just remember who it was that told you first. However, disclosure would have been a reality on January 22, 1958 on Live TV had CBS not cut off Major Donald Keyhoe as he was preparing to tell the rest of the story about what the government knows about UFOs, otherwise, there would be no debate as to whether ET visitation was a reality or not because there would be no need for the government to continue with its current cover-up that began during the 1940's with a partial door closing that was eventually slammed shut after the Robertson Report was revealed.
There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that extra-terrestrial life exists.
There is also absolutely no doubt in my mind that we are the only intelligent/technologically advanced life in our Solar System. We may find life out there among or fellow planets, but it
won't be intelligent life
Finally, there is also absolutely no doubt in my mind that advanced technological civilizations have existed, do exist now or will in the future on the planets of other stars, but they are so far away from us that they have not and will not be able to travel here in any practical sense, or us travel to meet them. Even in the extremely unlikely event that a Kardeshev Type I civilisation currently exists on planet orbiting αCen or Proxima Cen, and we somehow managed to discover it and to communicate with it, would still be a journey of many thousands of years to get there with our current state of technology, and many hundreds of years to get there with any foreseeable leaps in technology.
The total/combined energy resources of the entire earth are insufficient to even get ONE tiny spacecraft up to a small fraction of the speed of light. Faster then Light travel and zipping around between planets in flying saucers simply isn't going to happen any time soon, most likely, never.