Good Cartoon

It's always good to see UFO skeptics satirized. Many people won't accept the reality of visitors no matter what evidence is presented. They would doubt the evidence of their own eyes. While arguing with a skeptic, the late John Mack told him that if a UFO landed right in front of him and an alien walked out he still wouldn't believe it. The guy thought about it a minute and then admitted he wouldn't. Stan Friedman bemoaned the same attitude. "Don't bother me with the facts" they say, "my mind is made up." Unreasonable, stubborn people deserve ridicule.

By the way, the cartoon does not necessarily exaggerate the conspicuousness or impact of the phenomenon. Mass attacks have occurred at Colares (1977) Baridiame (1980) and Lucknow (2002).

Long ago, the physicist Max Planck noted that a new scientific idea does not win out by convincing its opponets and making them see the light. A new generation grows up that is used to it. That applies to UFOlogy. The cartoon mirrors society's changing attitude toward the phenomenon.