SOMEthing to THINK about

How serious does the government, police, the military, religion and science, take individual and collective observations of individuals confirming to have experienced and witnessed.

Very much I would think. Scientists and science as a whole, we trust, when they report their data and conclusions, based on controlled observations and experiments. The police are dependend on the observations of and data of others and we accept it as concrete evidence. Religion accepts individuals prophesying in trance, possession and dreams.

There is and was massive fraud, f.i. the Dutch psychologist Huub S. or a major university, that manipulated data to please politics and sponsors.

Still we accept scientifically information as to be true and build our future on the results ( how to beat Global Warming).

Ufo-sightings, observations and video-evidence are something completely different, In this field observations, data and experiences of citizins are explained away (as balloons, swampgas, weatherphenomena, secret military aircraft) and massive disclosure by scientists, astronauts, ufologists and military personel, has no effect on the policy of the world(super-)powers or on mainstream opinions about ufo's and extraterrestrial contacts.

Ufo's exist only in the imigination of a misled and desinformed part of the Earthly population.

May individual sightings, who are often filmed or photographed, be easily disregarded as evidence,

Collective sightings of flying objects in the sky are quite common and seen sometimes by thousands of people. Masshalucinations or atmospheric oddities worldwide?

There have been observations of groups, who experienced an alien encouter. In a Russian town and near two schools (one in Zimbabwe and one in Australia), ufos landed and aliens got out. Children said that they heard telepathic messages, that frightened them. After a short stay, the entities went back to their spacecraft and left.

It should not surprise you