On the surface of it, I'd have to say that the good padre gradually went senile. Now, you and I have talked before about this and the thing is that there is not the smoking gun; there are no bodies or spacecraft or technology that we can point to. Is there a smoking gun that has arisen?
It depends on who’s testimony one is willing to accept.
Or . . . how close to such things one has worked.
Please remember
Jesse Marcel Jr is a decorated retired veteran eye? surgeon FREEPER . . . amazingly at his age . . . with IRAQ duty to his long list of credits.
And, there have been other FREEPERS over the years who have affirmed in careful clever ways, their working around such craft and beings.
Senility is not an adequate explanation.
Paola certainly would fiercely disagree. His language shows no hint of it. Nor does his picture.