UFO PROBER DESERVES RESPECT, NOT RIDICULE.(Local)(Column)

From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: July 1, 1998 | Copyright information

Byline: Bill Johnson

She thinks I will laugh at her, that I will ridicule her and her work.

People my age and older always do, she says. She will expend a chunk of her valuable time explaining what and why she devotes her life to it, and in the end, I'll just make jokes, get it all wrong. She doesn't need that right now.

Perhaps she is right. Partly, at least. People who investigate extraterrestrial life - yes, UFOs - invite snickering. To many of us, they have always been oddballs in tinfoil hats, running around in search of little green men. Maybe she hears it in ...

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