Sagan investigated what we thought in the past, and how new discoveries changed our thinking. In one episode he dedicated a segment to questioning the alleged evidence for alien visitation. That segment was a revelation. If there was ever a moment when I tipped over into becoming a skeptic, that was it. Here was a respected scientist carefully arguing with logic and evidence why the case for UFOs was not compelling. In fact it was utter crap. That meant that all those alien visitation documentaries (including half of the In Search of . . . episodes) were not just wrong, they were nonsense. I
...more