chub: I believe you may have seen a UFO for sure, perhaps even one that has a good story behind it (space junk, experimental aircraft). But I also do not believe in aliens (or at least any visiting us).
For beings to be able to visit us they would have to have conquered time and space. The universe is just much too vast to send anything but probes, even at light speed.
If you are a race that has conquered time and space, you'd be able to see the beginnings and endings of time, perhaps even answer the questions 'where did we come from, why are we here, is there anything bigger than us (god)?'
If you could do these things, I seriously doubt there would be much to learn from a civilization such as ours. Heck, even if your motives were all good, it would probably be the equivalent of us trying to have a friendly conversation with an ant colony.
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