If you gave me enough beer and asked me to be blunt about the situation, asked me what I really thought, I would say that we need to flip from a spatial register (it is not where they are from) to a temporal register (it is when they are from). I would say that the UFO often appears to be a time machine and that the so-called aliens look more than a little like human beings from the future—or, in some contact cases, a sophisticated form of future artificial intelligence.
