As editor of Artifex, like most editors, I have become something of a clearinghouse for gossip, rumour, and inside information about all sorts of things relating to anomalies, witnesses, and those who investigate them. In regard to the extraterrestrial abduction scene and those involved, I have heard many impressive anecdotes from very reliable sources that have led me to regard many of the abductionist claims and claimants as highly suspect. 
Culture is an admixture of repetition and variation, convention and creativity, signals and noise. It is ever new and forever old as humanity relives old dreams and nightmares or forgets and forges new ones. Part of the delight of history is the recognition that however new a given event appears, traces of the past can generally be discerned.
For a well-behaved young Victorian gentleman, the supposition that ladies had legs was an article of faith which he was unable to verify until his wedding night, unless some kindly mentor revealed to him the facts of life. Likewise, the question of whether the ETH theory for abductions has a leg to stand on has seemed to many of us a matter of faith. So we doubting Thomases must be grateful to the more resolute Thomas Bullard for raising the ETH's skirts and satisfying our curiosity. Surely such frankness must, as he hopes, contribute to "international peace and understanding"?
