About forty years ago I had a vivid dream about an ET who looked just like us and when I asked her how it was possible traveling that far she said "bent light". What's odd is my brother's best friend had the same dream, same "bent light" explanation.
This is from a physics site about bent light:
"The effect is actually an optical illusion, although the researchers say it could have practical uses such as moving objects with light from afar."
Neither of us had ever heard or knew about bent light.
Without sounding like a fruitcake or wacko, although my wife & I enjoyed our visit to Roswell & museums

, I've always thought man's knowledge is exponential, right? **** sapiens has been here thousands of years yet just within my grandparents generation (late 1800s-1990) imagine as children travel/work was by horses.
Seeing the first car, radio, television, man landing on the moon, home computers.
Grandfather was an MD. I still have his antiquated medical equipment yet he saw vaccines, antibiotics, even the MRI.
Just last year Jeff Bezos trips into space, a rocket going up then returning straight back. Lots of consumers have 3D printers.
New dimensions are being discovered all the time.
The bottom line is things we take for granted today a few hundred years ago we would be burned at the stake for heresy.
I believe in UFOs 100%...that's an undisputed fact. Is it a secret military project, flare, illusion, alien or Chinese lantern?
Who knows.
What's harder for me to believe is in this enormous universe with billions of suns, many with orbiting planets that we're all alone.
That to me is more preposterous than the belief in extra terrestrials.