I’m not certifiably disagreeing but more playing devil’s advocate because I am wondering, but why would a person do something when he had nothing to gain and a lot to lose? For pure love of the truth and warning of their fellow humans, maybe, but that’s just one possibility.
its pretty simple actually…
when a high ranking officer of the air force and or army says they saw a ufo and they have nothing to gain and alot to lose…you generally believe them…
You should read “Fooled by Randomness” by Nassim Taleb.
No, you generally may want to pursue their story, but then when you don’t find any other concrete evidence, you certainly don’t conclude that it is highly likely that UFO’s exist.
The entire method of simply using stories from personal accounts has almost no substantial value for scientific investigation other then for the books and shows you’ve been influenced by.
There are many high ranking officers in the air force at present and over time. Let’s take your assumption that the average high ranking officer is more reliable, honest, etc… then the average person. So all you can say is that it is less likely for a class of high ranking officers relative to some other group to produce such stories if they weren’t true. The law of large numbers tells us that such a class would yield less of such stories then another group. But given enough officers and time, such false stories would still come out of this class. Now your special investigator for this show or that book is simply being “fooled by randomness.”
“I’m not certifiably disagreeing but more playing devil’s advocate because I am wondering, but why would a person do something when he had nothing to gain and a lot to lose? For pure love of the truth and warning of their fellow humans, maybe, but that’s just one possibility.”
Most of them do lose after they speak out publicly. But they all say they did it because they felt the public had a right to know. And most are older.
" Now your special investigator for this show or that book is simply being “fooled by randomness.”"
When someone comes out and they have nothing to gain…no books, nothing…and they have alot to lose…that makes a difference.
Plus, there are many videos they cannot be explained. Plus the enormous amount of testimony by pilots, air traffic controllers, military, nasa…etc…
they all have alot to lose. Most have nothing to gain.
All the modern evidence is really conjecture and hearesay. And I am by far convinced that aliens have visited us.
It’s the things like Renaissance paintings w people pointing at ufos, the Book of Ezekiel’s description of God, and things like that which make me wonder.
And the manna machine… I mean… wtf?!
"All the modern evidence is really conjecture and hearesay. "
well, alot of that heasay is coming from police officers and air force officers and air traffic controllers…
people tend to listen to their testimony…and for good reason…
but yeah, ancient aliens on the history channel actually laid everything out in regards to the ancient astronaut theory…
also check out ufo greatest story ever denied.