I've noticed this happens a lot in UFO discussions. Someone questions a speaker's credibility, standards of evidence, or past claims, and it immediately gets reframed as a personal attack. Evaluating whether a presenter is reliable, skeptical...
And they also don't understand how Bayes works.
A phenomenon must have a better chance to be explained by an UFO rather than by mundane causes to move the posterior probability towards UFOs from the abyss where it rests at the moment. In the...
Okay, it's a testing range. I'm sure they're testing stuff there. I'm not sure what the "paranormal investigators" are doing there, though. And getting a few shots of a UAV or fighter jet that isn't immediately recognizable seems like a booby...
Not only that, so many different types of aliens!
Dozens of species, presumably from dozens of worlds, many of them reportedly with an array of different sorts of ships -- all coming to Earth over multiple decades, all overcoming the incredible...
Agreed and rampant use of partial or full AI in copy generation without serious editorial effort is exacerbating the problem. The only thing you can do is follow the quality sources (and support or subscribe to them which is what matters in...
I feel like this case deserves real emphasis when we talk about pilots being reliable witnesses. This was not an object in the air with no references. They knew the approximate distance and speed (on the ground at road speeds at most), and they...
Exactly. We see this all the time. In criminal investigations, everyone who was at a specific location at a certain time must be interviewed, regardless of whether they believe they have anything important to say. This almost never happens when...
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...
"Trained observers" is a problematic phrase, and we should probably avoid it. It's almost entirely a rhetorical device put forward by UFO enthusiasts. Some very small number of scientists might be a trained observer of their particular object of...
What might be useful would be for you to select what you consider the single best example of such a picture and start a thread for it. You would not need to enter discussion/debate there unless you wanted to, but it would be useful for us to...
I sort of agree. We can't rule out that an eyewitness might see something unusual that is objectively there, and is able to give a reasonably accurate description that corresponds to what was there.
But without corroborating evidence it's...
Argument from authority fallacy. This site has a history of embarrassing government officials on these cases.
See now, I asked you to back up a claim you made. I wanted you to explain what you mean by a "true report". Does that mean you think...