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Thank you for your response! That was my point. Ladislas Farago was what we would today call a conspiracy theorist. He believed what he was told, and spun tales around it, most notably the idea that Nazi Martin Bormann was living in South...

ok so i gave you the supporting the supporting evidence that was related to your point and this thread. That was my goal. The epistemological discussion that evolved after that were not my intentions. Regarding ufos being real that was not what...

The typical physics lessons in school should have driven home the fact that "evidence for breaking the laws of physics" is evidence that the experimenter has screwed up somewhere. Any "breaking of physics" has context. There is a history of...

When I post a piece debunking a prominent UFO case (the only such piece on that case that I am aware of), I'm glad to see people concentrating on important things, like the misspelling of a foreign name. I also misspelled "Alvan Clark" as "Alvin...

A $150K RFP hosted on ResearchHub will fund independent searches of other observatories' pre-Sputnik plates. It opens October 15. Some relevant details: Applications are required to be submitted as pre-registrations on ResearchHub. Null and...

Depends on what you mean by "black-ops cover-up programs". I think we would agree, most governments have secret programs. That might include large scale research programs that produce advanced aircraft, satellites, and weapons systems or smaller...

I take serious issue with that statement. So leprechauns are "potentially genuine"? Santa Claus? Pixies? Unicorns? When things don't pass the "smell" test, we don't make the vain attempt to "prove them false". We simply can't prove a negative...

what im saying is where does the smell test stop and start-and what is the basis for that stop and start. Regarding the the "breaks of laws of physics" that's not what being discussed here. If something appears to break the laws of physics...

Thank you for your response! That was my point. Ladislas Farago was what we would today call a conspiracy theorist. He believed what he was told, and spun tales around it, most notably the idea that Nazi Martin Bormann was living in South...

Kind of like how the older Howard Malmgren got, the more (purportedly) involved in world affairs he would say he had been, saving the world as an advisor to Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis and later UFO shootdowns.

Exactly. This case was considered debunked by most researchers (including Italian researchers) for 2 decades before Grusch made people talk about it again. Pinotti is considered a particularly credulous researcher. Basically his group CUN...

NorCal Dave did a good summary of this case. I was the one who provided Brian Dunning with the general timeline and Brophy connection and all that. Quick recap: Pinotti got those documents, it was a relatively mild story, nothing in the telegrams...

Depends on what you mean by "black-ops cover-up programs". I think we would agree, most governments have secret programs. That might include large scale research programs that produce advanced aircraft, satellites, and weapons systems or smaller...

I take serious issue with that statement. So leprechauns are "potentially genuine"? Santa Claus? Pixies? Unicorns? When things don't pass the "smell" test, we don't make the vain attempt to "prove them false". We simply can't prove a negative...

If no provenance is what we're looking for, then that's exactly what you have with the 2007 leak of the Tic Tac/Nimitz documents. I would also say that Project Ultra provides an example of this, with it having been rumored and written about...