I absolutely agree with the tremendous waste of money into research of galaxies so far away that even if one expoded it wouldn't affect this planet as it will already have been swallowed by a black hole, or or died at the demise of our sun.
The amount of money being spent could very well make a hell of a lot of difference to people all around the world. But then Amazon will have taken control of everything, prohibited unions and operate shuttles to mine the moon of its natural resources.
By the way, as a further comment on my own experience of seeing a UFO, my mind struggles with a few things. The main one is that why in hell would it have lights on.