re: dodging the answer
Jim, perhaps the thing to do would have been to ask Eric if he was aware, rather than assume that he was, and was simply using HZ to try to seek the confirmation which he did not recieve elsewhere...
Eric is probably unaware of your work for the late Omni magazine on UFO's...
A more interesting phenomenon is that so many so desperately want an alien prescence... kind of like those who want an Earth-like Mars, but then that's a different set of folks...
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