Sitchin in fact denied all of Nancy Lieder’s hullaballoo. But I don’t trust any of them. I used to take Richard Hoagland halfway seriously until he claimed a compression artifact in a photo of comet Elenin was a tetrahedral force field projected by aliens. When George Noory took over Art Bell’s show, I know for certain that he made stuff up for ratings. I’ve given up on the whole bunch of self-described “ufologists”.
Oh absolutely... I always remain skeptical because there is a lot of garbage out there. But I figure I am intelligent enough to not believe everything I hear or read. But sometimes in weeding through it all I come across something that rings possible and go chase it down. 99 out of a 100 times it too turns out to be garbage.
But I will always remain objective about everything. And on this topic I actually have had personal eyewitness experiences myself. Like I just shared with another poster on this thread, never burn your bridges before you have even crossed them. Sometimes there is something definitely interesting on the other side to learn from.