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Exobiology is more accurate but less impressive -- it's chemicals not little green men.

UFOs are more inpressive (advanced flight tech, little green men) but fictional.

Since neither will ever affect the average non-exobiologist's real life on earth, being isn't negative factor.

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Isn’t it an argument to ignorance to claim UFOs are fictional? To confidently say they don’t exist would require you to be aware of all parts of the sky at all times.

Like the spaghetti monster, it's certainly not impossible they don't exist. It's also not impossible that they're indeed here, unfailingly remaining just beyond our ability to confirm their presence, and they look exactly as they appear in the popular imagination -- except with bowler hats.

The other side has to prove that they exist, not vice versa.

By that reasoning, You cannot actually prove that anyone else exists except you. The burden of proof is on you to prove you are not the only being in existence. Have fun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)#S...

prove they are fictional. or not. it's still open.

>UFOs are more inpressive (advanced flight tech, little green men) but fictional.

The only people who believe this haven't studied the data, or dug any deeper than surface level. If we disqualify all single-witness events and only select for highly credible individuals the evidence is still overwhelming.

Evidence of what?

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