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The “rare anomalies” exist and are reported. Even if in the end it’s just mistakes. Whether they are aliens or not is another matter entirely in my view.

The evidence can be insufficient to confirm the existence of a new phenomenon, while still being enough to justify better investigation.

The evidence can be insufficient to confirm the existence of a new phenomenon, while still being enough to justify better investigation.

I just don’t get the impression from all this that “there’s no direction, nothing to even think of studying”. But I don’t know more than you do.

Villarroel recently posted this in a Swedish Facebook group, commenting on a post in which someone suggested that the UFO community follow Mick West and Metabunk for a more nuanced approach. Translated to English: "The scientific method is not...

I agree that if crash-retrieval stories are true, we should expect leaks. But maybe that is exactly what whistleblower claims are: leaks, just not the strongest kind yet. A leak does not necessarily mean someone walking out with alien metal or a...

The “rare anomalies” exist and are reported. Even if in the end it’s just mistakes. Whether they are aliens or not is another matter entirely in my view.

I actually agree. If there really are those cases of something landing somewhere and leaving traces on the ground (Zamora like), the idea of an occurrence like this being studied by serious scientists is better than to leave it to UFO buffs to...

Yes, that’s the first step.

Evidence may not be binary, but existence is. Either something exists or it doesn't. So the spectrum and the available weight of evidence points to a binary conclusion. Before working out what something is we need to determine if it exists or...

I'm willing to dump it in the laps of the True Believers for now. I disbelieve there to be any inter-stellar component or non-human entity behind the sightings which get the UFOlogists all a-twitter, and that s true for the "anomalous"...

If we look at those who applied the most rigorous scientific methodology to the phenomenon, such as GEIPAN, CISU, Project Blue Book, and the COMETA report, the professionals who actually conducted these investigations consistently conclude that a...

Can we not? If you want to use such a query as the starting point for your reply, that's fine. But just pasting that stuff into the thread is a waste of space. I think the mainly relevant part to this was that scientific interest in the topic is...

Evidence may not be binary, but existence is. Either something exists or it doesn't. So the spectrum and the available weight of evidence points to a binary conclusion. Before working out what something is we need to determine if it exists or...

Yeah but this “assumes” that even those cases are anomalous but many here think they are not. I also have no idea on the Ariel case but that’s for its specific thread. When we have pilots and radar systems malfunctions, it could be just errors...