[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

Carter's UFO sighting has now become part of the mythology, and no one ever mentions Robert Sheaffer's debunking.

This sort of thing (the fact that crap never gets purged from the UFO mythology) is why I sold my UFO books and went from being an interested skeptic to one of those meanies who just laugh at the whole subject.

[Riley]

I spent some time seriously looking at this stuff about a decade ago and did my best to retain a scrupulous intellectual neutrality on the subject. I came away utterly disgusted with both the hardcore believers and their gainsaying counterparts in the 'skeptic' community. The signal-to-noise ratio in that field of interest is unbelievablely bad.

Having said that, I am not satisfied that not one single reported incident has any validity to it. In spite of all of the unmitigated BS in 'Ufology', I wouldn't be too surprised, when all is said and done, if there are 'others' in the universe, and if they had looked in on us at some point.

[jpl]

Carter's UFO sighting has now become part of the mythology, and no one ever mentions Robert Sheaffer's debunking.

I don't think too many people ever seriously believed that Carter actually saw a "flying saucer". The important part of the story is that Carter himself believed he actually saw one. He believed it so much he filed an official report and later made the statement "If I become President, I'll make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public and scientists. I am convinced that UFOs exist because I have seen one."

This isn't a myth, it's just a fact.