The Roswell Cover-Up
• Extraterrestrials
Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute on an infamous non-incident that has been good for the New Mexico tourism industry and a few teen actors:
Calling it "argument from ignorance", Shostak pointed to the claim that aliens must have careened out of control above the New Mexico desert simply because some classified government documents sport a bunch of blacked-out text. "How does the latter prove the former?"
Sure, the missing verbiage is consistent with a government cover-up of an alien crash landing, Shostak said. "But it's also consistent with an infinitude of other scenarios...not all of them involving sloppy alien pilots," he added.