Does the government know any more than us?

I notice many have called upon the Obama administration to declassify what it knows about the UFO phenomenon. And why not? After all, President Obama did promise a transparent administration during the campaign.

But what happens if our government doesn’t know any more or much more than the rest of us? Albeit, there seems to be ample circumstantial evidence that crashes of UFOs have occurred, alien bodies recovered. But what if that is not true? A common government response to unexplainable UFO sightings goes something like "we investigated it and found the event poses no risk to national security." The statements always seem to stay away from any mention of whether the object came from our planet or not. It just says, essentially, "we don't know what it is either but don't worry, you're all safe." Not that our government ever shades the truth. Ok, you’re right, they shade the truth all the time. But it would make sense to say there is no need to worry. If you don't know what it is, why panic people? I could see a bureaucrat utilizing that kind of logic.

The fact is I don't know whether our government has alien corpses and crashed UFO parts in a secret warehouse somewhere. I've heard persuasive arguments that they do and that they do not. But it did occur to me that our government might be just as puzzled about what all these unexplainable UFO sightings mean as the rest of us

UFOs and alien life vs. the skeptics

Is it just me or are UFO sightings increasing? As sightings increase, so does the volume of UFO video. I was reading how studies show only a small percentage of UFO sightings are hoaxes. Even though the majority of sightings are explainable, 5% to 20% cannot be explained. No one can say for sure what they are. Are we being visited by aliens? Are these sightings more than natural phenomenon and in fact UFOs? It makes me wonder. I'm no meteorologist but I think a UFO and earth lights or rare cloud formations are hard to confuse, at least from the pictures I've seen. Ironically, most people seem to believe alien life exists somewhere in the universe. But ask if any of that alien life has visited earth and the skeptics go off.

Skeptics who smugly offer up their own explanations about UFO sightings and aliens annoy me. I notice many have an air of certainty that belies the fact they don’t have any concrete proof that aliens and UFOs do not exist. If your best evidence is that a UFO has not landed on the White House lawn, that aliens would surely want to make their presence known, then aren't you guilty of the same speculation you accuse UFO believers of indulging in as well?