Why would aliens travel trillions of miles just to kidnap humans?
"That's called having blind faith that your existing hypothesis can't possibly be wrong"
Absent any hard proof, given the absolutely extraordinary nature of the claims it's perfectly reasonable to discard them without investigation.
In particular, why would aliens far more advanced than we travel trillions of miles just to play stupid ambiguous hide-and-seek games with us?
If they wanted to be known, they'd appear on the White House lawn. If they didn't, no one would ever see them.
Also, I note you mention the Cortile case, which I know well and even chatted to Budd Hopkins about it.
Your statements just aren't true: "or of Linda Cortile from her Manhattan apartment in 1989 (witnessed by at least 35 secondary eyewitnesses including 3 NYPD police officers and a reporter with The New York Times, who all saw the ship and four Grey aliens floating up into it with her)?"
The true statement is this - it has been claimed that there are many witnesses, but has not been substantiated at all. The fact that most of the witnesses are unnamed in Hopkins' book should be a giveaway, but if not, here's an analysis.
Finally, most skeptics don't think UFO contactees are lying - simply crazy. Sorry to break it to you.