I think that if UFOs are a physical phenomena in the way that airplanes are a physical phenomena, then the presence of a skeptic generally isn't going to make a lot of difference. If UFOs are a supernatural phenomena, then I think the skeptic's presence will have some effect, but it depends on your attitude in relation to him. I think that most UFOs are supernatural phenomena, they're not space-ships, they're something else that we interpret as alien craft because we feel the alienness of them, and because its an idea that makes sense to us. If we were a part of a different culture, we'd see them as genies or demons or something else.
I also believe, based on my experience, that its possible for two people to witness contradictory physical events, and that this isn't always a matter of the brain erroneously filling in details that aren't there. How common this is I don't know, apparently its not very common, but it can happen. For that to apply to real physical alien craft, I think there would have to be a pretty strong karmic reason for one of the witnesses not to see them though, I doubt that a typical fear of the unknown would be sufficient. It would be a lot more likely for one person to simply filter out the experience because they don't want to deal with it, rather than causing the universe to temporarily split to accommodate two separate events. In any case, this wouldn't account for why you don't see UFOs, since seeing them would seem unlikely change your reality much. It seems more likely to me that your friend is seeing something that seems strange or difficult to understand, and then projecting the experience into it.
A few years ago I was outside when a stealth bomber (B-2) went over at night. I was also outside once when a stealth fighter (F-117) went over in day time. The sight of it made a strong enough impression that I had nightmares about it 30 years previously, in part because I knew what it was for and what that meant to me. I guess that in either case your friend might have felt the sharp potency of it, without understanding what he's seeing, and seen it as a UFO.
When I was about 3, I saw a bee that was about 20 times the size of a normal bee. I've noticed that small children have difficulty judging size and distance, since a big thing that's far away looks like a small thing that's close, and they don't have much experience to help distinguish the two. So presumably that's what happened. But I also remember what I saw very clearly, and the bee was next to a small bush of definite size to help with scale. It sure seems like I saw an enormous bee, even though that doesn't make any sense.
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