[ Well. Now he's far more inclined to believe in aliens, given that this bird that has human-ish magnetite about it is talking about them.

Man. He so doesn't want to deal with the potential of aliens back home. ]

You're right. It isn't. [ That's fair enough. He's hiding his own shit, after all. ] And I guess that's also fair. I'm just going to assume you can talk because of alien experimentation.

[ Considering he can't bring up anything he knows anyway without potentially blowing his own cover. ]