re: An airplane just shined a spotlight on me? wtf?

If there are advanced beings in our "neighborhood", it was a tremendous undertaking for them to travel here. Even if they've gotten interstellar voyaging down pat by now, this would be based on eons of discoveries and technology that got them to this point.

Now, after all this effort, to fly to Earth and bypass all of our natural wonders on their way to our assholes seems like a waste to me. It is the part of alien abductons that just doesn't make much sense.