No one could pay me enough to betray history. No one. You may not believe me, but it is absolutely true. If I believed that Apollo was a hoax, that Roswell was really an alien crash, that any of the other conspiracies were true, no one could possibly pay me enough to claim otherwise.

I don't believe we have been visited by alien spacecraft; it's certainly possible that we have and the evidence isn't there, but I don't believe it. This is, naturally, different from belief or lack thereof in the existence of extraterrestrial life; I do believe in that. Without evidence, admittedly, but I do believe in it. However, I see no reason to believe that alien civilizations have visited Earth without evidence. And, realistically, there isn't any. There are confused eyewitness reports that are generally explicable by known phenomena. There are fuzzy photographs, many of which are obvious fakes.

However, I cannot fathom an alien civilization coming many, many lightyears, buzzing a few fields, and taking off again. I cannot fathom them being advanced enough to come that vast distance and being seen if they don't want to be. I cannot fathom them, in short, behaving the way they must be behaving if the UFO reports are, in fact, reports of alien spacecraft. It doesn't make any sense to me.

I am not a government employee. I never have been. And I can assure you that my disability check is nowhere near enough money to get me to lie about anything, much less to betray history. It's simply ridiculous to me to assume that it is, and I find it one of the most offensive things that it is possible to suggest about me.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"