There's an interesting phenomenon that comes along with abductees who continue to market themselves as opposed to their story. While the range of abductees are prolific and the UFO community might only hear discussions about selected, more famous figures, the high profile cases seem to follow some very select pathways: obscurity is probably the most frequent route where their story rarely changes or evolves and their initial story & fame simply fades away along with the experiencer; then there are those who descend into weird territory like Whitley and Betty who are changed irrevocably by the sustained fame that comes along with marketing their experience and so they kill the original value of their initial experience by becoming entertainers; and then there's Travis Walton.
I don't think we can use the transformed person to talk about the value of the original event or who they were at that time as these are often two very separate people. Where Betty went eventually is to that other side of the contactee spectrum where you just make stuff up as you go along, and you are trying to sell to a crowd like Greer or Howe & it's no longer about that first story told.
Here's a few other points that I have come up with (some of these may have been mentioned by other people/UFOlogists);
The aliens through binoculars; try doing this when you are home, driving, wherever; find a plane or helicopter that is flying about and then spy it through your binoculars. See if you can see how many people are in the plane and if so, describe what they look like. Ok, now try that when it's pitch black out. You probably can't do it in the day, let alone at night.
The winglets on the UFO; this is a feature that to me, is fabricated just like all spaceships were for 50's era sci-fi movies. Artists envisioned what a spaceship or UFO would look like so they come up with features to make it look more "advanced". In 2015, the idea of winglets sticking off the side of a craft that could cruise across the universe is absurd. (BTW - another ridiculous feature of Hollywood UFO's back in 50's were the idea that they are actually rotating/spinning. Highly unlikely that an advanced spacecraft from another world can hover motionless over a fixed point but only by rotating like a merry-go-round at 100 rpm.
The star map; on Earth in 2015 we use iPads, computers, Google to get directions. I find it unlikely that aliens from another world with their advanced flying saucers have a map (and yes, I know it's not a paper map like I used to read as a kid). Also, I can't believe how much credibility they put into Marjorie Fish's project. The ENTIRE THING hinges on the fact that Betty hand drew a map
from memory. That'd be like me being flown to Hong Kong in a helicopter with a blindfold on, and then as we are hovering they take the blindfold off and I get told to look at the Hong Kong skyline. Then we leave. Then when I get home I try drawing the skyline on paper freehand. But then someone else tries saying that my drawing matches
EXACTLY the real dimensions, length, angles, etc. of the Hong Kong skyline. What? Really? Makes ZERO sense to me. Never has, even as a child. I'd make
SOME sense if Betty was given an actual map of unknown stars/planets and then Marjorie came up with an exact match. But to base it off memory and a sketch drawn with pencil? C'mon.
Now couple all that with telling jokes with aliens, flying cats, seeing the episode of The Outer Limits with the alien with rap around eyes, etc. and I am pretty doubtful.
