Jehan Azad couldn't stop believing the Navy's "tic tac" UFO sighting was real, and it was wrecking his peace of mind. So he tried to get talked out of it by the best skeptic he knew of: Peter Miller, who won $100,000 in a debate arguing that COVID didn't come from a lab, and whom even his opponents called the world's expert. Azad paid Miller about $2,000 to write three articles debunking UFOs for him.
The plan backfired. Miller's articles, Azad writes, "actually made me slightly more confident in UFOs" — pointing out, for example, that our own SETI telescopes "could not detect Earth from its radio signals even if it were at the nearest star," so hearing nothing proves little. Instead of moving on, Azad bet $10,000 at odds that pay over a million if aliens turn out real, gave up his apartment, and started building radar to hunt UFOs himself.
"Peter never did debunk UFOs," he writes. "Maybe I will."
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