[dau]

How ridiculous the ET assumption is depends on the amount of plausible alternatives. And for the Nimitz encounter to be something mundane, several very different things must have glitched or been missinterpreted and one has to put how ridiculous THAT would be into perspective.

[jamesdmiller]

Yes, if it's aliens or a 1 in 10,000 glitch it's the glitch. But if it's either aliens or three such independent glitches, it's likely aliens.

[thaumasiotes]

> But if it's either aliens or three such independent glitches, it's likely aliens.

That's still not true. It's more likely to be one glitch you haven't thought of than three successive glitches that you have thought of.