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I can assure you people are used to planes here, but drones? Couldn’t be more popular over the last few years, so the probability of a bias is there for sure.

If the observer's perception has been conditioned to see a small object hovering, then even when the plane flies overhead it is possible, with no other reference points, that it could be perceived as a small drone at low altitude rather than an...

I wholly agree! But this is not the point of the whole discussion. Well, I only said that many supernatural beings have been imagined as disembodied minds. Ie.: souls. And many of them are/have been culturally important. Why do you find this to...

"Supernatural creatures", whether they're "culturally important" or not, have never been shown to exist at all. Now you've gone all the way to describing their characteristics? Hey, I know it's the silly season of the year in the USA, what with...

Noone doubts that. But when it was proposed it had never even been imagined before. So yes, things which are not known to actually exist can be proposed as explanations. Some turn out to be correct (ie. neutrinos) and some no (ie...

Just for some broader context and to maybe help answer the question of how often you would expect to see planes over Jersey, I ran a query on adsb.aero for traffic above 15,000 ft that crossed through my hastily-drawn bounding box in the week Oct...

I had thought one report I read might give a clue, but there's not really any directional clue other than "these are all areas close to the airport". Police Appeal for Witnesses Police are asking to hear from anyone who was in St Peter, La...

Question: Are you using "impossible" as a synonym for "nonexistent?" I'd think there may be things that are POSSIBLE, but nonetheless don't exist (but being possible MIGHT come to exist later or to have existed in the past.) So everything that...

@Mauro, what is the difference between "we can never be sure X exists" and "we can be sure X does not exist"? X is the supernatural here. The metaphysical is a different matter. Metaphysics is about the structure of reality. The Supernatural is...

No, that's the definition for a soul or deity. Supernatural is far more broad: any phenomenon, force, being, or occurrence that exists outside or transcends the observable laws of nature and scientific explanation. My argument is that anything...

Note the something that flashes past very quickly at the top of the frame at around 4 seconds. That one looks like it may be a bug, to me, but it is too blurred to tell and could also be wind-born clutter.

No, that's the definition for a soul or deity. Supernatural is far more broad: any phenomenon, force, being, or occurrence that exists outside or transcends the observable laws of nature and scientific explanation. My argument is that anything...

"Proposed", then confirmed. Hypotheses remain just that, until the evidence is produced. I just looked up supernatural, and my several varied sources say nothing at all about "disembodied minds" or their ability to affect the physical world...

You should've PMed this. Also, if you can't see from my previous posts where we disagree, I doubt restating my points is going to help you understand my approach.

Folks in the other Jersey were not immunized against the perceptual error, in spite of living adjacent to the same airports for however long they'd lived there. I think it's just this: ...or, to put it more colloquially, once somebody sees a...