Science depends on repeatability… or at least multiple people looking at the same data and getting similar outcomes. Science doesn’t deal AT ALL well with unique events or even widely spaced similar events reported by different people. So we can’t use “Science” to deal with whatever the current term is for UFOs. But we can use Occam’s Razor… and that tells us that widely separated individually different reports of “doesn’t behave like anything I’ve ever seen” is probably a glitch in the system, somewhere. Because that’s what it usually is when you see something oddball, and Occam prefers that we not unduly create new causes.
COULD they be real? You betcha. ARE they real (and from a small set of “non-glitch” causes)? I dunno. And would I know if I read the report in detail? Nope.
PS: If there really are extraterrestrial visitors, then Occam’s Razor is one of their best tools.
Science depends on repeatability… or at least multiple people looking at the same data and getting similar outcomes. Science doesn’t deal AT ALL well with unique events or even widely spaced similar events reported by different people. So we can’t use “Science” to deal with whatever the current term is for UFOs. But we can use Occam’s Razor… and that tells us that widely separated individually different reports of “doesn’t behave like anything I’ve ever seen” is probably a glitch in the system, somewhere. Because that’s what it usually is when you see something oddball, and Occam prefers that we not unduly create new causes.
COULD they be real? You betcha. ARE they real (and from a small set of “non-glitch” causes)? I dunno. And would I know if I read the report in detail? Nope.
PS: If there really are extraterrestrial visitors, then Occam’s Razor is one of their best tools.