>>2034109Based post, and yes when you go through the reading on this stuff there ARE 411 cases that do have extremely strange circumstances where even the LEO's (note not Paulides) have no idea what happened. You are correct a lot of people just brush it off as Mountain Lions or 'Wandering Off' but seem to be ignorant of or ignore cases where conventional explanations do not explain what happened. Experienced hunters or regular outdoorsmen go missing and LEO's have no idea what happened. Skeptics tend to pin it all on Paulides, when really the lack of explanation is consensus with investigators in some of these investigations.
As to what might be doing this, there isn't really a blanket answer, but Jacques Vallee seems to have the most rational explanation. He also has a very impressive background and has pissed off the UFO community by blowing out their materialist assertions about what these phenomena might be.