Why don't people take UFOs and ancient astronauts seriously?

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Maybe ... there are any number of opinions as to why this may be an invalid statement. HOWEVER, such opinions all fall back on the assumption that "they" are here, and there simply is no empirical evidence to support that assumption.

I do think it is very likely that alien life exists. But the whole ancient astronauts theory is really [extremely] poor man's anthropology. There is nothing other than pure speculation and misinformed views to support the theory. Honestly I see it as a relic/analogous of the whole imperialistic viewpoint where European civilizations thought it impossible that the Mayan people could ever have built the megalithic structures in their ancient cities and thus there must have been white people who were responsible (mostly Mormons who seem to think this). Quite frankly it is insulting to human ingenuity. It makes about as much sense as claiming that because one is not aware of the engineering processes that went into, say, the Hoover Dam, it must have been built by aliens. It is projected ignorance, plain and simple

If you are not into theism, then either there is or theree is not evidence of visits from offworlders. I personally have not seen nor heard tell of any data that are not at least as suspect as evidence of the "supernatural" is to the atheist. If more data comew in I will recompute.

If you are theist - I do not know of any major religious organization that would be tied into a knot by evidence of offworlders. For some there is a presumption of Terra as special, but it is not for any group I know of essential that we be alone.

If, say, the Ezekiel 10 vision was some kind space or time transporter - a favorite with some streams of sci fi - that changes the essence of any of the Abrahamic religions no more than if Elijah producing fire in the contest with the prophets of Baal involved a clever substitution of something like naphtha for water.