It’s been fairly convincingly documented that Sagan was a paid government shill/debunker
BTW, even most pastors can readily detect craziness as a number of research studies have docmented.
Raging narrow minded haughty blind bias is a poor foudation for discovery or truth.
And in my experience on such threads, ignorant jerks are rarely attractive.
Then look in the mirror, you’ll find one.
BTW, I guess Stephen Hawking is a paid government shill as well. Of course for the delusional believers in UFO’s as aliens, all genuine reputable scientists are “government shills.”