Seth Shostak is a Great Resource for The SETI Stance

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Your article is full of assumptions, bias, and very unscientific conclusions. Seth Shostak is a great resource for the SETI stance on things, but I think you'd fine Stanton T. Friedman's book, Flying Saucer and Science" to be an enlightening source of credible information that very much counters your current take on the subject of UFOs.

Please read this book to gain a more balanced and scientific frame of reference.

Stanton is a very credible author - a nuclear physicist who has worked on a variety of space and terrestrial government projects for companies such as GE, GM, Westinghouse, TRW Systems, Aerojet General Nucleonics, and McDonnell-Douglas. He knows what he's talking about, because he's actually done the real world footwork and investigations of UFO evidence.

Seth Shostak admits he has not done any research or investigations on UFOs or abductions, and is not a scientific authority on the subject. Personally, I feel strongly he's looking under the wrong rocks in his quest for discovering extraterrestrial life. His quote him the subject of UFOs (i.e. "not a shred of evidence") is completely misleading to the public.

Your implication that categorizes abductees as "a hillbilly who claims to have been abducted by alien beings as he was swallowing moonshine" is particularly simplistic, biased, and flat out wrong. Please do your research.

Sincerely,
John Craig

Judyth Piazza chats with Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer, S.E.T.I. ...