Astronomers and UFOs: A Response to the Lord Martin Rees

Lord Martin Rees, the Royal Astronomer, was in the center of the UFO world last week as he was quoted saying that 'we will find alien life in the next 40 years', and was favorably mentioned in this blog.
But this positive view of scientific feature discoveries was sided with a less friendly sentence on UFOs, written in a Huffington Post article: "No serious astronomer gives any credence to any of those stories".

Martin Rees

Well, obviously Mr. Rees haven't heard of a fellow named J. Allen Hynek...

Dan Mack wrote a wonderful response post in the same website: >Read it here.