Chapter 4: Aliens

Chapter 4: Most Americans believe in aliens. Many believe that these aliens visit earth at a regular basis(according to public polls). In these polls, a percent of Americans also report episodes of missing time, awakening in  a state of paralysis, and flying through the air. Here is an article that gives a bit more of information pertaining to this topic:
Alien Abduction
Pollsters have concluded that two percent of Americans have been abducted by space aliens. The only problem with this is that pollsters never asked anyone whether they were actually abducted. Carl says that as a high school student he was "confronted" with the flying saucer mythology. In college Carl began to learn a little about how science works, and how many false starts and dead ends have plagued human thinking, and how our biases can color our interpretation of the evidence. Carl says he has remained fascinated long after his early enthusiasm for UFOs decreased, as he understood more about the scientific method. Everything hinges on the matter of evidence. The more we want it to be true the more careful we must be. People make mistakes. People play practical jokes and stretch the truth for many things like money or fame. They also misunderstand what they are seeing and sometimes even see things that aren't there.