answer:It isn’t that life on other planets is not possible, or that it is not likely. I would bet that life is one of the common facts in the many laws of nature that we can observe and understand. It is the strange sameness of the claims that people in different times and places make that they have been abducted and had stuff stuck up their asshole or vagina or something. This means something, although I do not know exactly what. But, whatever it is, it says more about the abductee, than the supposed alien abductor. Plus, I am not buying the notion that advanced alien life forms would look at us as if we were garden slugs. We give evidence of willful manipulation of the elements of material reality, such as chemistry and metalurgy. We have cities laid out in patterns that appreciate Euclidean geometry. Our engineering designs give clear evidence of an understanding of the laws of physics. Whoever they might be, the super developed aliens would understand the implications of that. Thus, while I would never be surprised if someone finds incontrovertible evidence of intelligent life in the universe, I think the current popular stories originate in the minds of the tellers, and not the vast cosmos. However, I do not think in most cases it is craziness or drugs. I would give them the benefit of the doubt and say it is the good old, predictable, desire for attention. Sort of like the bullshit that politicians say in order to get attention. Just a different style.