I'm all about the metadata - the indirect pieces of information that go with the message. Seems to me that most of the witnesses are a little sketchy, the types susceptible to conspiracies, drunk, not fully paying attention, not exactly critical thinkers. Some of the 'observers' are selling hype. Not to discount the possibility of the phenomenon, there could well be third group, who actually do witness the an event, but are leery of being tossed into the other 2 categories, so they would keep their mouths shut and seriously contemplate the event.

The changes in the laws involving weed nation wide?

I don't believe it all. We won't see a UFO until the Anunnaki return.

Here's my favorite NDT video on the subject. It's very entertaining.

When I can't explain something, I don't automatically explain it with "God." When I see something strange in the sky I don't automatically explain it with "alien life."