Arlan is a good friend of mine, and I agree with his take on this 100%. He posted this on facebook two days ago. For those wondering who he might be, here is something more about him:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlan_Andrews
Lately, because of news at the national level, I've been asked what I think about UFOs. Based on an interest in the subject for decades, this is what I published in 1980. I see no reason to change it now.
MY POSITION STATEMENT ON UFOs:
Arlan Andrews, Sr.
-Former Mechanical Engineering Consultant, Aerial Phenomena Research Organization
-Former Mechanical Engineering Consultant, Mutual UFO Network
(From The UFO Encyclopedia, ed. Ron Story, Doubleday and Company, 1980)
There may be those few humans on Earth who know, precisely and thoroughly, what the UFO phenomena signify. If and when the rest of us share this knowledge, we may judge as to whether it is worth knowing and whether it is a pleasant circumstance. In the meanwhile we are left only to investigate the reports, analyze what data we can glean, and speculate upon its meaning.
The dozens of theories of “psychic UFOs” are all ways of viewing the data through one’s own interpretation of universal order—one’s paradigm. If one’s universe is populated with saints, devils, and angels, the UFO data seem to reveal a cosmic battle between Good and Evil, manifested in shining ships and evil aliens. The “nuts and bolts” interpretation, while seemingly more rational an explanation, in truth, rests upon faith almost as much as the metaphysical view. The simple fact is that we have no knowledge of any life beyond Earth, and all opinions are based in ignorance (excepting "those few", of course).
Nevertheless, my own interpretation is with the “hardware” group: I think that the data reveal that we are visited by craft from other solar systems or elsewhere in space, and that these craft have advanced means of propulsion and materialization and that the crews are (sometimes) humanoid and that they are neutral—neither friends nor foes. It is meaningless to further speculate upon their motives; we can’t even determine what motivates earthlings, much less aliens!
When all of the UFO data can be fit into an enlarged paradigm that includes the total universal environment—“spiritual,” “psychic,” “aural,” and physical—we will probably understand their place in the universal order is quite natural and that our present confusion arises from a limited sensory and mental capacity.