There are a limited amount of possible explanations, all which is eliminated as plausible by any one involved (air traffic control personnel, the pilots, military radar stations, meteorologists). It would be a leap of faith to conclude “aliens”, but would it be a bigger step than concluding any hypothesis’ already deemed implausible? (eg. weather balloons).
That’s a very good conclusion. I would be satisfied by just sticking to that.
That being said, having all sorts of pilots and radars report flying objects in the sky, crossing air space boundaries as they like, going close to both civilian and military crafts, really should provoke massive investigation and massive public awareness. It doesn’t!
That being said, having all sorts of pilots and radars report flying objects in the sky, crossing air space boundaries as they like, going close to both civilian and military crafts, really should provoke massive investigation and massive public awareness. It doesn’t!
Why?
We don’t have evidence that it’s causing a lot of aviation accidents. If you have a high prior for the observations being caused by some sort of extraterrestrial activity, then it probably merits serious investigation, but if you just file it with all the other “I don’t know” phenomena, there’s nothing to single it out as meriting massive public awareness.
We don’t know what causes ball lightning. It’s weird and mysterious, and it’s been observed for hundreds of years or more, and we really don’t know what’s up with that. If we figure out what causes it, it’ll lay a longstanding mystery to rest, but it probably won’t revolutionize the way we live, we’ll just be less confused.
As a scientifically inclined individual, I’m curious about lots and lots of stuff. I’d certainly like to know about the reasons for some of these allegedly extraterrestrial observations, which I don’t know how to explain. But one thing that’s incredibly frustrating is when people fixate on particular unexplained observations, and insist in the absence of good evidence that the explanations must be revolutionary and life changing. When people read about things like the faster-than-light neutrino observations at CERN, or unexplained observations in the night sky, and act like anything short of a paradigm shift in our basic picture of the universe would be a ripoff, it’s really disheartening, because most unexplained observations just don’t turn out that way, and it’s sad to see people refusing to be satisfied by the way reality actually works.
How about concluding “I don’t know”?
That’s a very good conclusion. I would be satisfied by just sticking to that.
That being said, having all sorts of pilots and radars report flying objects in the sky, crossing air space boundaries as they like, going close to both civilian and military crafts, really should provoke massive investigation and massive public awareness. It doesn’t!
Why?
We don’t have evidence that it’s causing a lot of aviation accidents. If you have a high prior for the observations being caused by some sort of extraterrestrial activity, then it probably merits serious investigation, but if you just file it with all the other “I don’t know” phenomena, there’s nothing to single it out as meriting massive public awareness.
We don’t know what causes ball lightning. It’s weird and mysterious, and it’s been observed for hundreds of years or more, and we really don’t know what’s up with that. If we figure out what causes it, it’ll lay a longstanding mystery to rest, but it probably won’t revolutionize the way we live, we’ll just be less confused.
As a scientifically inclined individual, I’m curious about lots and lots of stuff. I’d certainly like to know about the reasons for some of these allegedly extraterrestrial observations, which I don’t know how to explain. But one thing that’s incredibly frustrating is when people fixate on particular unexplained observations, and insist in the absence of good evidence that the explanations must be revolutionary and life changing. When people read about things like the faster-than-light neutrino observations at CERN, or unexplained observations in the night sky, and act like anything short of a paradigm shift in our basic picture of the universe would be a ripoff, it’s really disheartening, because most unexplained observations just don’t turn out that way, and it’s sad to see people refusing to be satisfied by the way reality actually works.