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There is a lot of compelling evidence and not one person has been excited and thrilled w/the experience.

Let's see the compelling evidence.

Of the countless of interviews brothers in Christ like LA Marzulli had w/abductees, not one was a true believer/follower of Jesus Christ. One who came close to being abducted applied the Blood of Jesus and the entity released him....but then if you had read my post a while back, you'd know this.

Alleging that one has been abducted by aliens is not compelling. A close encounter with an alien that leaves no material evidence is like me claiming I have a fire-breathing dragon in my garage. Suppose I seriously make such an assertion to you. Surely you'd want to check it out, see for yourself. There have been innumerable stories of dragons over the centuries, but no real evidence. What an opportunity!

"Show me," you say. I lead you to my garage. You look inside and see a ladder, empty paint cans, an old tricycle--but no dragon.

"Where's the dragon?" you ask.

"Oh, she's right here," I reply, waving vaguely. "I neglected to mention that she's an invisible dragon."

You propose spreading flour on the floor of the garage to capture the dragon's footprints.

"Good idea," I say, "but this dragon floats in the air."

Then you'll use an infrared sensor to detect the invisible fire.

"Good idea, but the invisible fire is also heatless."

You'll spray-paint the dragon and make her visible.

"Good idea, but she's an incorporeal dragon and the paint won't stick." And so on. I counter every physical test you propose with a special explanation of why it won't work.

Now, what's the difference between an invisible, incorporeal, floating dragon who spits heatless fire and no dragon at all? If there's no way to disprove my contention, no conceivable experiment that would count against it, what does it mean to say that my dragon exists? Your inability to invalidate my hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true. Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value they may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder. What I'm asking you to do comes down to believing, in the absence of evidence, on my say-so.

Claims of close encounters with aliens or demons without physical evidence are like my invisible fire-breathing dragon. Possibly pure hokum.