I understand why you find Sagan convincing.
I still consider him a paid government shill.
I gathered there was an intensely emotional and personal thing about ‘repressed’ memories.
It outrages me as well that folks went to jail needlessly.
I googled and couldn’t find any evidence about Carl Sagan being a paid government shill. Personal feelings aside, he showed that Betty Hill had showed nothing extraordinary. It took the amateur astronomer 5 years to find a constellation that “matched” her map, and it didn’t really match at all. I don’t like Obama, but if he says 2 plus 2 equals 4, I will believe him, but only after I verify with a calculator. It doesn’t change that 2 plus 2 equals 4.
It’s not intensely emotional or personal with me about the recovered memories, I would think we would all be outraged that people suffered at the hands of these charlatans. I could only imagine if I had a goofy sister who went to some “hypnotherapist” and told us our parents were slaughtering babies in Satanic rituals. Many people went to jail and had to register as sex offenders because of these “hypnotherapists” I remember when it was all the rage, I even remember a Phil Donahue show about it. I even met a “Dr.” who was still touting the book “The Courage to Heal”, etc. to her patients, you can imagine how that conversation went.
There is no “good way” to get “recovered memories”, whether they pertain to childhood sexual abuse, Satanic Rituals, UFO adbuctions, past life regression, or “re-birthing”. Oprah even did a show on “re-birthing”, to her great shame.