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Originally Posted by photon
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.
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.
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.
Sure, though I guess the difficult part might be convincing taxpayers to pay for it.
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We're not just talking about the eye witness accounts of highly trained fighter pilots though...
You seem to think that acknowledging that there are strange things happening in the sky and being documented by the most advanced sensor systems a military with an unlimited budget can buy, means saying aliens are real and visiting. It does not.
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