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"that a cool (sometimes earnest) eyewitness story...is simply not likely or even possible, once more facts are known." I think, in my opinion, that this is very unscientific. Facts are facts, furthermore when you have corroborative statements...

Um, my comparison was partly tongue-in-cheek. I don't believe in fairies, and I wouldn't describe myself as being part of a subculture that "believe in the validity of one and not the other" (visiting alien craft v. fairies). I do not believe...

That's how active radar works

Indeed, it has been studied by GEIPAN, when you have a removal of the peer pressure by a press article (others see that so I'm not crazy / maybe i can see one too) you have a wave of both true reports, true old reports, and many false positives...

That sounds like a reasonable assumption. If it's a simple hoax orchestrated by the reverend himself, it's tempting to think he simply started the exposure, ran into the picture, and stood there for a moment wearing his old cassock. There would...

Yes; they both cherrypick from 2.5 million data points to find 187 'significant' returns, even though those returns are described as weak. We need better evidence than that.

An interesting hypothesis, but I am not sure this is correct. Recently there have been a rash of 'drone' reports, in New Jersey, Denmark, Gatwick and Colorado; many people reported these 'drones', and many people filmed them. Almost exclusively...

And you are dismissing witness reports... because you don't trust them? That's not very scientific. We have plenty of examples of witnesses being dismissed for science to later recognize they were right, epistemology is full of it. But as you...

No photos of video that we know of, you can't deduce a truth from a lack of information. What efforts were deployed to collect such photos? Most of my witnesses only report what they saw a decade after the fact, with their pictures, because they...

As I understand it, one of the main contentions is that you'd need a "dying star" level of power as a power source. I stopped there.

Maybe not a contradiction, I think the IAA is suggesting that the hypothetical discoverers ask other observatories (or whatever) to independently check their observations/ data in confidence, and that this should be done before any public...

2.5 million data points reduced to 187 data points, some of which show absurd jumps. That seems to show that even radar-visual cases cannot alsways be relied upon to give confirming data.

I think Salvatore Pais thought his microwave resonance cavity craft might work, and decided to patent it. Someone (maybe a panel or committee) in NAWCAD decided to back him. To anyone reading the patent, this is hard to understand. From the...

It's worth keeping in mind that people in government or in UFO research are, like the rest of us, people. And people are prone to do stuff that makes little sense to the observer . This is not a satisfying answer, our brains want stuff to have...

They are not the same. TTSA as explained in detail in preceding posts is an infotainment business. More controversy equals more money. Even if some of the individual participants are sincere in their beliefs, the organization exists to channel...