My, my. How quick, incomplete, impulsive, and completely unintelligent an assessment by you. But that's not surprising considering how much VALID information and testimony ...
'testimony' ah, what a word. I don't just believe people when they assert things. I'm not of a gullible nature, nor do I want to believe; I want to be shown.
So, it comes down to evidence. I like evidence, I used to be a scientist, and work with other scientists, and people who make and operate satellites, and I met an astronaut while doing this, and various people in the defense industry, and others in related industries involved in remote sensing and Earth imaging, and astronomers, and you know what? Not one of them, with all the satellites pointing both up and down, taking pictures every minute of the day, ever, captured a UFO.
Despite the prevalence of recording equipment in the hands of the public, camcorders, cameras on cellphones, digital cameras, and the Internet to disseminate the evidence, we still don't see good evidence, just shaky over zoomed blobs of light, never actual controlled flight demonstrated, never a landing, never anything in the sight line for reference of size, heading, or location.
So, answer me why is this? Also, like I said earlier, Govts have only recently had RADAR and fast jets, and the abilitity to detect and intercept, and arrive on site of alleged UFO events recently, and therefore the head start on stifling any word escaping. Why weren't UFO's common knowledge before world Govts had this power?
So, my position is, we didn't see them previously, we don't see them now, .... what is it you see?