Hello, Jon! I am John! LOL. Great letter. I've written one to Neil. I really love Neil. I want to talk to Neil about movies and science and yes, I will call BS on some UFO psychological blocks. Cause that's what they are, right? It's not like he scientifically refuting- like when first weighed in on the tictac video, I don't think he even looked. He didn't pull out a micrometer. He didn't ask, can I get more footage...
The thing about accepting the argument of "Human senses can easily be fooled" is getting harder to swallow. Can humans be fooled? Absolutely, but if we are as easily fooled as some scientists argue- I am surprised we're as successful a species as we are. And if you're a Top Gun pilot flying for the US Navy- misperceiving reality will get you killed. As the saying go, there are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots.
When tens of thousands of people in Phoenix see the lights, that not imagination, and they weren't misperceiving flares. Hundreds of people saw an object floating over Chicago O'Hare- not likely all misperceiving reality- but if they are- more effort should been made to ground these pilots. If they're hallucinating or smoking something, they have no business flying, right? Heck, I probably wouldn't want you even pushing my plane back if you're reporting a hallucination. I would ask for a new ground crew.
If we only take a sliver of the reports since World War II as being credible witnesses, there is enough evidence to warrant closer scrutiny. That, too, is science. Science can't make deductions without collecting evidence. Neil doesn't appear to be collecting evidence, and if this thing is real, and there is something here, he needs to join forces with Avi Loeb and figure this thing out. You don't want to be wrong side of this. That's just being economically smart about it, right?
The persistence of the skeptical mind to explain away real data, that's evidence of a mind being easily fooled, but not senses.