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The set of documents sent to Bologna newspaper lIl Resto del Carlino seem to have been photocopies. I don't know if the documents sent to ufologist Roberto Pinotti were also photocopies, but if so it prevents age-testing of papers or ink that...

Yeah, but Sheaffer attributes the error to Villarroel (now spelled correctly), not NBC. I don't trust journalists to get everything right. That's why I always seek out the source, if possible. In this case, that would be the published papers...

Certainly other sources should be consulted. If the transients are seen by one telescope they could have been seen by others. One of the hallmarks that always gives me pause is when one source is examined, the "right" result is found, and further...

I wondered that too. Maybe the chances of another large telescope photographing an area of sky within the 6 degree square being imaged by Oschin Schmidt at the same time are low. If it happened the area of sky covered would probably be a...

Certainly other sources should be consulted. If the transients are seen by one telescope they could have been seen by others. One of the hallmarks that always gives me pause is when one source is examined, the "right" result is found, and further...

Some of the per capita numbers can be impressive just because of low population. McMullenCounty, TX estimated total population ~600 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMullen_County,_Texas So 3 sightings (possibly even reported by the same person)...

The set of documents sent to Bologna newspaper lIl Resto del Carlino seem to have been photocopies. I don't know if the documents sent to ufologist Roberto Pinotti were also photocopies, but if so it prevents age-testing of papers or ink that...

I know of at least two missing pre-war aircraft, where some people supposedly have clues to their whereabouts, but can't act on them without the help of moneyed benefactors. Like the Maussan mummy stories, the evidence is twice removed from the...

I don't see that Jessica Knurick has been mentioned yet. I enjoy her videos that I have seen so far, and have not yet caught her out in any blunders. https://www.youtube.com/@DrJessicaKnurick She specializes in medical and nutrition-based...

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...

"A UFO crashed in 1933 Italy and the US Recovered it" Should probably read "A UFO crashed in 1933 Italy and the US stole it later" as the Italians recovered it and the US ended up with it, or so the story goes. Both ULTRA and Manhattan Project...

No, because we understand the physics of how things behave in our atmosphere, for example. I'm not talking about "how could an alien civilization break the laws of physics at home", because that's not something we have any way of knowing -...

The post misses the mark—existing stars are culled from the transient set—somewhat—as when it's done rigorously (Solano 2022), only 5399 features are left, not enough to work with. So Villarroel did not match against the IR catalogs this time...

I don't see that Jessica Knurick has been mentioned yet. I enjoy her videos that I have seen so far, and have not yet caught her out in any blunders. https://www.youtube.com/@DrJessicaKnurick She specializes in medical and nutrition-based...

The probability is nonzero for the Bayesian approach because it assumes you see one positive result on top of every negative result you know about. I estimated a million UFO reports and no UFO to arrive at 0.0001%. It looks impossible to me. The...