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To be fair, there IS training that might help one identify a specific sort of thing in the air that might otherwise go unidentified. Some military folks will, as part of their training, learn to recognize incoming aircraft or drones or missiles...

How big do you think it was?

In the past few days the US10144532B2 patent has cropped up in discussion in the Claims of Advanced Tech Recovered from UFOs thread, other patents made by Salvatore Pais have been briefly mentioned. The USN's Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft...

You seem to do that. If they ever get around to a DSM-6, you might be in there.

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...

Given that many of the classic, and not so classic, UFO stories are themselves amalgamations that coalesced into their more popular canonical versions, will AI slop of those stories that in turn prompt more AI slop about those stories end up...

Here's a classic from this forum, lets see what you think this is, and no image searches or AI

Occasions where you get fooled are enough for it to be notable and it never gets resolved for you a few seconds later are fairly rare, some people seem more prone to being fooled, some seemingly want to be fooled and argue against any explanation.

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...

Exactly, multiple independent testimonies provide at least some corroboration, raising the claim from a simple anecdote to a pattern worth investigating. The banana balloon proves my point: human vision didn't fail or hallucinate in this case...

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...

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...

Interesting, it seems @Brian Dunning is saying the study/paper showing a positive correlation between detected transients and nuclear testing was based on just 9 transients?!: Out of more than 107,000 transients that had been detected in the...

I think the idea is, if a bird fooled you, you wouldn't know it. At least not when it fooled you, maybe something afterwards revealed it to be a bird, but if that didn't happen, you may have gone off fooled. That's the problem with so many UFO...

Interesting, it seems @Brian Dunning is saying the study/paper showing a positive correlation between detected transients and nuclear testing was based on just 9 transients?!: Out of more than 107,000 transients that had been detected in the...