Reply #116: I find UFO reports plenty interesting. [View All]

What I dismiss out of hand are the unsustainable conclusions and inferences some people insist on drawing from such reports. At lot of the reports are just straight descriptions - 'I saw a _____ shaped object in ____ part of the sky with _____ characteristics; it did _____ and then ____, before doing _____ and going out of sight.' well awesome, that's a piece of evidence that something occurred, and worth correlating and seeking an explanation for, with the proviso that individual skills at observation vary - could be an astronomical or weather phenomenon, could be this, could be that, so we have to consider all the prosaic explanations first.

I'm fine with that...what I'm not fine with is somone saying 'Oh yeah, must've been the greys because they always fly ships like that.' You might as well say 'That was the Archangel Gabriel, Michael always leaaves a trail of sparks in his wake' or 'Those are the hours of the god Apollo, he has been fighting the forces of Hades these three days past'.