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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...

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...

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.

There’s still a big problem with Pais propulsion method. It’s called “nobody has any idea how that would practically work”, I think.

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...

By cherrypicking? I doubt that very much.

kinda strikes me like the absence of a magician on Puthoff's Uri Geller studies excluding the people who know how it's done

I'm not sure that they are going to appreciate my comparison of the 21st century UAP kerfluffle to the surge in garden fairy sightings in the early 20th century, but at least my opinions are now on record.

You could argue in favor of anything using those arguments, even things that are mutually exclusive.

"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...

Good point, we can't know about photos/ videos of UFOs that aren't made public. Perhaps many exist. But photos/ videos we don't know about aren't evidence (although they may become evidence if revealed later). The Gendarmerie? (Many...

Good point, we can't know about photos/ videos of UFOs that aren't made public. Perhaps many exist. But photos/ videos we don't know about aren't evidence (although they may become evidence if revealed later). The Gendarmerie? (Many...

"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...

"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...