Ashley asked:

Through time, there have been at least hundreds of thousands of UFO sightings. Do you think that
even with the most proof, that the majority of these "sightings" are the real thing?

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First, go here: http://www.csicop.org/si/; then go here: http://www.skeptics.com.au/journal/journal.htm;
take a look around for a while.

Then read these:

Schick, T., Jr. and L. Vaughn (1995). How to think about weird things: critical thinking for a new age.
Mountain View, CA, Mayfield Publishing Company.

Shermer, M. (1997). Why people believe weird things: pseudoscience, superstition, and other
confusions of our time.New York, W. H. Freeman and Co.

Young, A. W. (2000). "Wondrous Strange: The Neuropsychology of Abnormal Beliefs." Mind and
Language15(1): 47-73.

Steven Ravett Brown