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scientists are often able to track down the guilty individual years after the case has been closed by analyzing flecks of dead skin or the DNA in hair follicles. Yet somehow, alien abductees return from their extended and repeated captures with nary so much as an alien bit of dandruff.

A SIGHTING SO PROLONGED IT LENDS ITSELF TO SCIENTIFIC STUDY. How is it that even during the best, longest sightings, no scientists happen to be around? In this day and age, most people at least have a geeky cousin with enough technical equipment to build the Starship Enterprise in his basement. (In fact, you probably have a geeky cousin who has done that.) Where is THAT guy during long UFO sitings, and why can't he come up with something convincing while the mothership spends its twenty leisurely minutes drifting over his major metropolitan area? Why is it that the only person with a camera always seems to be carrying Aunt Lily's antique Polaroid? Or happens to be a guy with home video skills that rival those of the Blair Witch Project camera crew? Instead of calling the police when something like this happens, how about calling the nearest university astronomy department? That could be really exciting.

The topic of life on other planets taps in to a deep human-longing for certainty and no small amount of human fear. We are probably not alone in the universe. I personally believe this. But until we kick it up a notch in the evidence department, no one is going to take UFO investigations seriously. We get it right in the movies. We call in the science experts, and they instantly make "the greatest discovery in the history of science!" In the movies, they get it right every single time, and human ingenuity prevails.

Why can't we do that in real life too?

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