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by teamhappy 4161 days ago
I'm really no expert, but I think you'd need more than one eye witness to begin with. Then there is the obvious difference between your two examples: There aren't a lot of explanations for somebody seeing a person stabbing another person, then again there are a lot of explanations for somebody seeing light that moves in strange ways. The same is true for video footage and photographs. Hardware fails all the time and a lot of these technologies have quirks. Remember the old photographs with creepy looking kids in the background and that kind of thing? There are very good and easy to understand explanations for these events (images burning in, similar to plasma screens). Remember what the word "UFO" means to begin with. I'd need at least some evidence that proves the thing is actually an aircraft, let alone an extraterrestrial one.

By the way. Pilots were crazy high back in the day, weren't they? Amphetamines and that kind of thing? Just saying.

Also, you complain about people not investigating these events. That's obviously not true. It's just that (so it seems, anyway) if nothing ever comes out of it, people stop investigating.