French National Assembly to host UAP seminar with true believers

[boguesuser]

Well, in my case I was driving the first time and my new phone was in my glove compartment; I hadn't taken a picture with it yet. I don't know if I would have taken a picture if it was handy, as I don't know what would have happened if I did. Seeing something really strange, your mind wants to find a mundane explanation but can't. Wanting to see something strange and taking a picture of a plane, your mind will want to see aliens.
The second time with the capsule-shaped object, I didn't even have my phone on me, it was in the house.
You do have people who want to see aliens taking pictures of every light they see, creating a lot of noise. The number of real experiences is quite small.

A year or three ago I saw a "tic-tac" gently floating across my yard, probably about 600 or 800 feet in altitude. I ran inside to get my camera and made it back out shortly after it had passed overhead. I then spent the next three or so minutes futzing with the camera because I had somehow completely forgotten how to focus it. By the time I got it in the right mode, the object was a tiny spec in the distance. Not one picture was taken.

On top of that, rather than writing down the time it happened, for some reason I decided "I'll remember later". I did not.

It was most likely a balloon or blimp but I'll never know for sure since I couldn't get that damn picture :/

 

[Ann K]

Yes but isn't this argument unfalsifiable?

If the situation is one person seeing one anomaly, it can't be falsified, but if several people see (or take pictures of) an event, that's not necessarily so. If A sees a bird but B, C, and D have a closer view or a better quality photo, they can certainly demonstrate that it was a balloon, not a bird.

 

[Ann K]

A year or three ago I saw a "tic-tac" gently floating across my yard, probably about 600 or 800 feet in altitude. I ran inside to get my camera and made it back out shortly after it had passed overhead. I then spent the next three or so minutes futzing with the camera because I had somehow completely forgotten how to focus it. By the time I got it in the right mode, the object was a tiny spec in the distance. Not one picture was taken.

On top of that, rather than writing down the time it happened, for some reason I decided "I'll remember later". I did not.

It was most likely a balloon or blimp but I'll never know for sure since I couldn't get that damn picture :/

I once saw a strangely shaped hot-air balloon, low down over my neighborhood, and as I was driving I followed it for a bit. I had no doubt of its identification and could clearly see the basket below and the people in it. But I wondered whether there were people who just caught a glimpse, and doubted their own sanity to see ...an enormous banana go past their window!

 

[Fritzkquzerk]

If the situation is one person seeing one anomaly, it can't be falsified, but if several people see (or take pictures of) an event, that's not necessarily so. If A sees a bird but B, C, and D have a closer view or a better quality photo, they can certainly demonstrate that it was a balloon, not a bird.

Exactly, multiple independent testimonies provide at least some corroboration, raising the claim from a simple anecdote to a pattern worth investigating.

I once saw a strangely shaped hot-air balloon, low down over my neighborhood, and as I was driving I followed it for a bit. I had no doubt of its identification and could clearly see the basket below and the people in it. But I wondered whether there were people who just caught a glimpse, and doubted their own sanity to see ...an enormous banana go past their window!

The banana balloon proves my point: human vision didn't fail or hallucinate in this case, it correctly registered a highly unusual, structured shape.

 

[Todd Feinman]

A year or three ago I saw a "tic-tac" gently floating across my yard, probably about 600 or 800 feet in altitude. I ran inside to get my camera and made it back out shortly after it had passed overhead. I then spent the next three or so minutes futzing with the camera because I had somehow completely forgotten how to focus it. By the time I got it in the right mode, the object was a tiny spec in the distance. Not one picture was taken.

On top of that, rather than writing down the time it happened, for some reason I decided "I'll remember later". I did not.

It was most likely a balloon or blimp but I'll never know for sure since I couldn't get that damn picture :/

How big do you think it was?