Yes, Bill, of course you can take someone from Borneo and teach him all about our modern stuff and make him realize it's not witchcraft. Naturally. And this has been done with millions of people.

Likewise, a complete skeptic and nonbeliever in the idea that there are visiting alien craft to this planet can be taken and taught...by his own direct experience...to change his mind radically about that. And that's what happened to me in the late 60s. It only worked for me, though, because I had the experience. And why should my experience suffice to convince anyone else? I don't expect it to. No, let them have their own experience. Then they will be convinced. And if they never have that experience? Fine. Does it matter?

In the meantime they should be willing to at least accept the possibility that there's something out there that they don't already know about...and the possibility that it does not meet their expectations in the least.

I don't find that willingness in most skeptics. I find in them instead an apparently irresistible, downright arrogant and even sadistic urge to marginalize and ridicule people whose stories are about something outside their own mental box.

(I am not speaking of you when I say that, Bill, I'm just speaking in general terms about what happens in society. The main reason so many eyewitnesses are quite reluctant to speak openly about their sightings of what they took to be alien craft is simple: they expect to be scorned, picked on, and ridiculed by various other people and by people in the media, and they figure it's simply not worth the trouble.)

Then you have those who will speak out regardless, and they take the flak for all the others. (And you have some outright cranks and phonies and attention-seekers too...as you do in any existing field of inquiry. They are a real pain for the honest witnesses, but a delight to the skeptic, and he searches diligently to find them so that he can throw the baby out with the bathwater.)