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Originally Posted by Dion

We use eye witness accounts when trying to convict people of crimes or in car accidents and other things, but here you say here it doesn't count or matter.

And research shows that the eye witness accounts are very unreliable.

Eye witness accounts matter in that they're suggestive and may indicate that there's something going on and worth actual research.

But they don't constitute the kind of evidence necessary to prove extraordinary claims like aliens, ghosts, or angels.

Originally Posted by Dion

We should trust one persons explanation of the video and say it's a shut and closed case?

Nope I never claimed that, and neither does the guy who made that video. He always says that his videos aren't definitive proof that aliens don't exist, or that the phenomenon in question wasn't an alien, only that there are more mundane explanations possible.

That's all that is required to discount one claimed explanation for a phenomenon is to provide other plausible explanations. That's why extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Back to my example of a hoof print. Could be horse, zebra, or unicorn. Because we know horses and zebras exist, and we know horses are common in southern Alberta, it's not reasonable to claim it's a unicorn hoof print without more evidence.

Originally Posted by Dion

Or is what Fravor and 3 other pilots saw, which defies the law of science and physics, we should out right dismiss what they saw and say it faulty memory?

Why not? We know for a fact that memory is faulty. They experienced something, but there's no reason to hold up their accounts above all the other evidence.. as you say if a phenomenon defies the known laws of science and physics, "I saw it" doesn't meet a reasonable standard of evidence. There's no reason to believe their accounts are accurate reflections of what really happened.

If there's a lot of such accounts great, that suggests it's worth spending resources to investigate further. Maintain a drone for investigating such things. Create a standard operating procedure for such cases that trigger an investigation to gather more intelligence. Gather actual evidence.

Originally Posted by Dion

Shouldn't we be collecting more data from the DOD and doing a further investigation?

Sure, though I guess the difficult part might be convincing taxpayers to pay for it.