UFO's

So I'm reading this goofy story tonight about how obsessed the British are about UFOs. Sure there are plenty here in the states that are wacko about them too. But the Brits are far more advanced then us. So I'm reading and people are telling their stories about these strange lights flashing about the sky. Pretty much the same stuff ya hear about all the time.
Then it dawned on me. Like an epiphany if you will. These people are nuts. There were no spaceships. You know how I know? The Lights!!
Think about it. Why do they need lights? Sure our airplanes have lights. But we don't need them to fly. Those red an green lights and the flashing strobes aren't for the pilots to use to see where they are going. They're only there for other pilots to be able to see them.
So I ask. Why would an highly advanced intellectual species of interstellar and planetary travelers have need for running lights to avoid collisions from other aircraft? Answer - They wouldn't!!
They're guidance systems would be so advanced they would know where we are flying before we do. If they can make all these high speed streaking and stopping and flashing off in different directions and stuff. Surely they know how to keep a 747 from smacking into them without the need for running lights. Surely if they've traveled with others across galaxies they have a pretty good idea where the other ships are and would have no need for lights to see them. Also doubt they have much need for windows to look out of either. Lights on a UFO would only serve one purpose. For attention from us. So We can see them. Which has possibilities granted. But there are other ways to achieve that. If they are so advanced, a few blinky lights would kinda be below them. Ya I know, I saw the movie Close Encounters. I call serious bogus on the whole light show thing. In the movie they had been studying their abductions for decades. If they could build space craft to travel to other planets surely they could figure out how to say Hello without lights flashing a code.
Navigational running lights would be completely useless for an advanced intellectual being. I don't have and answer for what people think they have seen. (Though Attention Whore comes to mind). So does drugs and alcohol. But there is no reason why space aliens would NEED to put lights on their crafts.

Just saying