>>- Evidence is published in a peer reviewed scientific journal (rather than broadcast in a rather dubious and uninformative interview on a crappy rock music radio station).

There is a problem with this. The media is afraid of ridicule. There is videotape of Cheney saying that he never said that the Iraqis would welcome us with open arms. There is video tape of him making the statement he denies on "Meet the Press". The one and only television program ever to air those tapes back to back? The Daily Show.

I am skeptical about alien visitation. But no Little Hawk, not professionally so. But If I am convinced that they are here. It will much more likely be by direct experience than by professional publication. I'm convinced that on the order of 80% of the general population would have to be convinced before we saw any proof in "Nature", or even "Newsweek"