Rare things that have been documented much better than UFOs

[Todd Feinman]

ource is incredibly, purposefully elusive to evidence capture

That's what I think. Also the number of truly anomalous sightings is very small, and there is a lot of human crap in the sky and flying around the Earth today.

 

[JJB]

Do you think anything will come of it? Or is it a big scam?

I think something could come of it, but I'm not expecting confirmation of extraterrestrial visitation anytime soon.

There's a legitimate scientific and national-security interest in identifying unexplained sightings, but ufology is also full of grifters, exaggerated claims, and people confusing speculation with evidence.

I wouldn't call the whole thing a scam, but I'd certainly say there's an industry built around keeping the mystery alive.

 

[Mendel]

AARO has also never said that there was nothing to work on, nothing to analyse or that the issue itself is meaningless.
Tim Phillips himself said during the interview with Mick West that there were interesting cases, but that he obviously couldn't give any details.
Now, "interesting" can mean many different things, of which "aliens" is the less probable, and I have no idea of what exactly he could mean, but same thing with Kosloski, I don't know if Kirkpatrick said anything along those lines, but I still consider this significant.
They might know a bit more than we do on specific cases, that's all I'm implying, but at the same time I wouldn't bet any money on them holding any alien life truths.

The question is, does the government know more about UFOs than we do?
https://www.space.com/pentagon-ufo-...-report-no-emprical-evidence-alien-technology

"AARO found no evidence that any USG [U.S. government] investigation, academic-sponsored research, or official review panel has confirmed that any sighting of a UAP represented extraterrestrial technology,"

NASA's UAP study team reached similar conclusions in its first public report, which was published in September 2023. "The NASA independent study team did not find any evidence that UAP have an extraterrestrial origin, but we don't know what these UAP are," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said at the time.

"No evidence" means they know nothing.

 

[JJB]

NASA's UAP study team reached similar conclusions in its first public report, which was published in September 2023. "The NASA independent study team did not find any evidence that UAP have an extraterrestrial origin, but we don't know what these UAP are," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said at the time.

I don't really like how UAPs are often lumped together as if they're all part of the same phenomenon.

UAP is simply a label for things we haven't identified, encompassing everything from balloons, drones and satellites to sensor errors, atmospheric effects and genuinely unexplained observations. These cases may have nothing whatsoever to do with one another.

The fact that some remain unexplained doesn't mean they share a common cause, let alone that they point to extraterrestrial technology.

 

[Mendel]

The fact that some remain unexplained doesn't mean they share a common cause, let alone that they point to extraterrestrial technology.

"Pointing to extraterrestrial technology" would be an explanation.
The fact that they're unexplained means that they are not evidence of extraterrestrial technology.

 

[Ann K]

Also the number of truly anomalous sightings is very small, and there is a lot of human crap in the sky and flying around the Earth today.

Many of the sightings are of unidentified objects, some of them probably unidentifiable because they're in the LIZ. I'm not aware of ANY "truly anomalous" objects at all, and any anomalous sightings, such as your story, are only verbal and thus cannot provide anything else to study. They're dead ends, and we have no sure way to distinguish a factual statement from inventions, hoaxes, or hallucinations.

 

[Todd Feinman]

I think eyewitness reports are useful, especially if corroborative. All different kinds of reports, police reports for instance. A good way to transmit information, but physical evidence may not be present, or photos of what happened. Folks provide accounts here.. Usually Starlink.