Lots of claims have been scrutinized fairly intensely by governments. Was it the chilean military that spent a couple years investigating a UFO sighting and eventually went public saying it was unexplainable? Sadly, this effort provides little increase in reliability. The investigators are often doing this for the first time and lack key skills for analyzing the data. This is exacerbated by the fact that governments are large enough to allow for selection effects, where people spending effort investigating UFOs are self-selected for thinking they’re really important, i.e. aliens.
He testified under oath to the House and Senate intelligence committees, purportedly giving them hundreds of pages of documentation including specific names of programs and people to follow up on. All I’m saying is, AFAIK, no UFO claims have been under that level of scrutiny (in the US) before.
And to say that either the ICIG or the members of the House and Senate intelligence committees are either “first timers” w/r/t vetting claims like this or that they fall prey to selection effects for “people spending effort investigating UFOs” rings false to me.
Lots of claims have been scrutinized fairly intensely by governments. Was it the chilean military that spent a couple years investigating a UFO sighting and eventually went public saying it was unexplainable? Sadly, this effort provides little increase in reliability. The investigators are often doing this for the first time and lack key skills for analyzing the data. This is exacerbated by the fact that governments are large enough to allow for selection effects, where people spending effort investigating UFOs are self-selected for thinking they’re really important, i.e. aliens.
He testified under oath to the House and Senate intelligence committees, purportedly giving them hundreds of pages of documentation including specific names of programs and people to follow up on. All I’m saying is, AFAIK, no UFO claims have been under that level of scrutiny (in the US) before.
And to say that either the ICIG or the members of the House and Senate intelligence committees are either “first timers” w/r/t vetting claims like this or that they fall prey to selection effects for “people spending effort investigating UFOs” rings false to me.