The Probing Question

“Why would they pretend to be a talking raccoon, and anyway, if they’re so smart, how come they invariably have to stick probes up abductees’ bottoms to see what we’re made of?”
 — Right? Jenny Diski of the London Review of Books reviews The Myth and Mystery of UFOs, by ufologist Thomas Bullard, which includes an amazing moment about a raccoon from outer space. The whole thing is great. Why *are* the aliens always sticking stuff up our butts? Or, why do people always want aliens to be sticking stuff up our butts? … Is what the aliens are wondering from their secret observation tower. [Via]