Have I got a great UFO picture for you

Seeing is believing. UFOs exist. Just ask Hollywood and the American public.

Nearly 50 years since an alleged UFO was sighted at Roswell, New Mexico, a new CNN/Time poll released Sunday shows that 80 percent of Americans think the government is hiding knowledge of the existence of extraterrestrial life forms.

50 years of grainy photos and unconfirmable testimonies, not to mention the movies "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "ET" have conclusively proven to the satisfaction of most Americans that "we are not alone."

Still, there is a nagging uncertainty lurking just beneath the surface of rational minds: namely, those grainy photos. Voila! In a burst of initiative that vaporizes all remaining congitive dissonance, a netizen has provided a high-res image of a UFO .

The pendulum is swinging back from the extreme rational end of the human perception spectrum where it hovered late last century. Facts, logic, even common sense are less important than a good cinematic story line. Thus, for example, China (think panda bears) only wants to get along with the rest of the world and its military buildup is just as benign as were Idi Amin's intentions in Uganda.

Oh, and there were no WMDs in Saddam's Iraq. Evidence to the contrary was ignored by the big media and so didn't exist.

Case closed and if you'll wait while I get my coat, I'll take you to my leader.