An epic rant about 60 Minutes' gullible story on UFOs

This sad situation did not sit well with Yale neurologist Steven Novella, host of the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast. On a recent episode, he understandably ranted about the enduring allure of ascribing strange sightings to alien spacecraft. "At the end of the day, it's a dot, it's a blob, it's a blur. It's not information," he said. "You're making an argument from ignorance. They completely underestimate the potential for misidentification in terms of everything – size, speed, angle..." Novella wasn't finished.