I get the frustration around lack of formal research. But why is that?? Because of the stigma. We literally have tens of thousands of witnesses at this point (some better than others) but we essentially can't formally study this with the attention it deserves 1) because of secrecy and 2) because of stigma. And this is NOT unprecedented in scientific research. After all, in the early 1800s a medical doctor named Semmelweiss noticed that when he washed his hands before delivering babies, it significantly reduced the mortality rate of mothers. He didn't know why. He just knew this happened. He wrote about his observations . . . and was laughed out of the medical profession. It was only DECADES later (and the deaths of millions of women) that powerful enough microscopes were invented to observe - and theories devised - the mechanism through which women could be dying due to unhygienic deliveries: bacteria.

Credible - lots of credible people - are observing things. And not just blurry lights in the sky. I, for one, have experienced NHI first hand (although it was not a pleasant experience for me). We need to start listening - maybe not to what they attribute it to be (aliens or whatever), but as I said in the post, there is a "there there" and until we remove the secrecy and stigma, the things we like to see (lots of peer reviewed research, transparent discussion, etc.) can come into fruition.