[Long Cut]

"You evidently have such little awareness in the field, that all the evidence in the world would be mystifying gibberish because you'd have no track record of a background, context or reference point from which to evaluate anything--short of a craft landing in your back yard and being left there."

Top, translated this means, "I have no evidence whatsoever, so to cover that fact I'm going to claim that you wouldn't understand it anyway".

The UFO/conspiracy/X-Files kooks think a lack of evidence proves something.

Just ignore 'ol Quix...he's a nut.

[Quix]

I see that Top has been sharing his sweetness with you.

BTW, your assumptions are extremely flawed.

[Quix]

My Mormon Bishop Dissertation Chairman . . .

one day when I noticed the Book of Mormon in his trunk as he was getting his brief case out . . .

I asked him how he dealt with all the revisions of the Book of Mormon which was supposedly never changed etc.

He said, rather wisely, imho,

that "life was SO complex that just about any cockamaymee explanation would do."

He was a brilliant character. Would persent, one year, 11 papers at the APA convention when most people were honored to manage one.

I realize that wisdom and humility may not be second nature with you . . . but in an area of such complexity, soooo much disinformation and secrecy . . . one might consider other options than narrow minded, rigid dismissiveness.

All the more so if you haven't had a close relative working around such craft daily, routinely.

Or are you in a habit of disbelieving otherwise thoroughly honest, honorable, etc. close relatives and calling them ignorant liars? Must make Thanksgiving dinner a real interesting food fight!