It honestly sounds like you dodged a bullet there

going off about aliens and UFOs and telepathy and weird shit recently

Anybody going on about UFOs in the modern day loses me.

The real final nail in the coffin about UFOs is that after it became common for people to have cameras (phones) in their pocket at all times everywhere, reports of UFO sightings went significantly down, not up. In ye olden days (yes, I was there, 3000 years ago), people with a UFO sighting often had the excuse that they didn't have a camera on them at the time, and that's why they didn't capture proof of it. Because most people didn't carry a camera at all unless they specifically planned to go out and take pictures. In the modern day, though, "pics or it didn't happen" is a more common sentiment, and reports of UFO sightings have gone way down.

If UFOs were real*, you'd expect to see a lot more reports and more evidence of them as quick and easy camera access became ubiquitous. People would be taking pictures and videos of them all the time! But the opposite has happened -- having easy and available means to collect evidence has reduced the number of claims.

*Okay, in the strictest technical sense, UFOs are real. In the sense that people sometimes see flying objects that they can't readily identify. But -- especially in the modern day, with camera evidence -- those tend to be pretty explainable by more knowledgeable people who can identify them, and the more evidence there is, the less likely it seems for them to be associated with any sort of extraterrestrial origin.