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Originally Posted by astrophotographer
The point of most UFO proponents is that nothing of this earth can explain the reports that are received. They love to find details in the sightings that make them seem impossibly quick, impossibly evasive, or impossibly large. Of course, many seem to forget the problems with witness perception even though it is pretty well documented in many UFO books and sightings. There usually is a lot of hand waving stating these witnesses were far better observers and could never make such a mistake. As a result, a satellite re-entry and breakup sometimes turns into a huge lighted triangle of immense size traveling very low.
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Hmmm... Can you point towards a single case where a satellite's re-entry has been mistaken for a triangular UFO? Also, there are many documented UFO encounters by military personnel who, I am sure, are far more qualified than either you or I to make a judgement on aerial craft. Have you ever looked at the 'fastwalker' incidents?
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Originally Posted by JayUtah
I often wonder if at some point a judgment call is made whereby it is deemed non-cost effective to investigate these claims.
I make such judgment calls daily on things I am asked to look into. You're obviously speaking about the aggregated sightings -- why should we keep looking into aerial phenomena when the 10% or so we haven't explained prosaically don't seem to be hurting anything? But everyone is familiar with the notion of judging each instance by its likelihood of being answered.
In my case it's often reasonable to look at the symptoms of a problem and to look in the evidence trail for signs of the habitual causations. But when you get to the point of needing more information in order to rule something in or out, often that is difficult or impossible to get. I've noticed that each incremental increase in discriminatory data comes at a price that increases very dramatically with each increment.
But most of the larger-scale investigations into UFOs have been with some specific purpose in mind, such as to determine whether or not they pose a threat. That doesn't require investigating all the way to the root cause of the sighting. So the mandate for some of these investigations runs out before the money does.
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Surely any structured unidentified craft which is flying in a countries airspace is of military importance? Do you also believe that the incident at Rendlesham Forest (which was a US Nuclear Military Base) was of no importance to either the MoD or the US Military? After Lt. Halt filed his report he never heard about the incident from his superiors again? Rather odd don't you think?
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Originally Posted by Veeger;
I think at one time, every "credible" report was investigated by the U.S. whether over U.S. soil or not. In the end it was determined there was no threat to national security. The book was closed.
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Again - how can UFOs buzzing a US military base with nuclear capability be of no interest to the US military?