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An interesting thing to me is many UFO believers will see this old clip and treat it as vindication of Coulthart, as if it's independent evidence rather than a potential mythical root of the current version. -
I'm almost finished with my fully analog recreation. The film has been developed and printed, and high-resolution scans have been made of the negatives. I'll present the material and my conclusions as soon as I've compiled my report. But here's a...
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An interesting thing to me is many UFO believers will see this old clip and treat it as vindication of Coulthart, as if it's independent evidence rather than a potential mythical root of the current version. -
MonkeeSage reacted to GM4AJK's post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with
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Just for the record, I helped this poster on X to identify this flasher as a piece of space junk in Geostationary orbit. It's been flashing at him at the same point at the same time for over a week, naked eye bright. -
MonkeeSage reacted to jdog's post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with
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The work of Ivo Busko sort of fills that bill: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.20407. His goal was to look for similar transients in images shot with a similar telescope and camera at the time and he found some from Hamburg University. These plates... -
An interesting thing to me is many UFO believers will see this old clip and treat it as vindication of Coulthart, as if it's independent evidence rather than a potential mythical root of the current version. -
MonkeeSage reacted to Giddierone's post in the thread The Ariel School, Zimbabwe UFO sighting - has it ever been debunked? with
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Abduction (1994) p.6, 432. -
MonkeeSage reacted to Giddierone's post in the thread The Ariel School, Zimbabwe UFO sighting - has it ever been debunked? with Like.
They were not detained at the school but went home at 1pm that day, and were only interviewed at the school beginning on the Monday. IIRC the issue with Harvard was about billing for services and substandard record keeping. But, he also allowed...
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MonkeeSage reacted to John J.'s post in the thread The Ariel School, Zimbabwe UFO sighting - has it ever been debunked? with Like.
We know John Mack used hypnosis with his patients, but I'm not aware (might be wrong) that he used hypnosis with the claimed Ariel witnesses (who were not patients). It seems pretty clear Mack and Cynthia Hind (and Ariel School headmaster Colin...
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MonkeeSage reacted to Giddierone's post in the thread The Ariel School, Zimbabwe UFO sighting - has it ever been debunked? with Informative.
In the literature on hypnosis there's quite a lot about the myths of hypnosis. For example no induction procedure is required, it's not "sleep," and does not require the subject to have their eyes closed or be in a "trance". In fact there's no...
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MonkeeSage reacted to JJB's post in the thread The Ariel School, Zimbabwe UFO sighting - has it ever been debunked? with Like.
I think there's an important distinction between showing that certain interviewing practices are preferable and showing that the Ariel interviews are therefore unreliable. The protocol is designed primarily to maximize accurate recall from...
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MonkeeSage reacted to Giddierone's post in the thread The Ariel School, Zimbabwe UFO sighting - has it ever been debunked? with Like.
I read quite a bit of the literature on interviewing children (which I cite here: https://revue.comitepara.be/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Scepticisme_Scientifique_12_2024_SI.pdf) and their reliability as eyewitnesses. Conclusions from other...
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MonkeeSage reacted to jon_eir's post in the thread The Ariel School, Zimbabwe UFO sighting - has it ever been debunked? with Informative.
I've been led here from another thread where I asked about what constitutes good interview methodology. Having now read through much of this thread, I think @Charlie Wiser and several others have done a lot of good work identifying problems with...
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AAndreas replied to the thread Claim: Original Calvine UFO Photo.I'm almost finished with my fully analog recreation. The film has been developed and printed, and high-resolution scans have been made of the negatives. I'll present the material and my conclusions as soon as I've compiled my report. But here's a...
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MonkeeSage reacted to FatPhil's post in the thread Study: Assessing correspondence between subjective reports and visual targets during attempted out-of-body experiences with Like.
There's a bit of a stench to this. Why were the seating arrangements different? Was seating arrangement part of the test protocol? If not, how can we be sure you remembered correctly, because you didn't write it down as it wasn't part of the...
