If you don't believe Tom Alyea, then you must believe he invented the account. So you believe Alyea fabricated the tale out of thin air? Do you think that's reasonable? ....and for what reason would Alyea create such a lie?
Or he just has a poor memory -- not unlike yourself.
If Day was lifting prints with scotch tape and placing them on little white cards, then where are the little white cards?
We know for a fact that there is at least one little white card that fits the description presented by Mr Alyea.
That nobody, including Day himself, ever mentioned before November 26.