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After talking for a short while with someone who believes strongly in non-human intelligence on Earth, it often comes out that the person has had a life-changing experience witnessing something extraordinary. The object(s) described and the experience typically fits a pattern: 1. It often has a...

Do the stars of the WWE think they are actually fighting each other and holding longstanding grudges?

That's argument from incredulity. And, it's not true in at least one case — here's a woman who made waves a couple of years ago by giving a press conference at the Lincoln Memorial. She's a former intelligence officer, and she has spoken to "the beings." (She has also written openly about having...

And then the next phase of the motivated telephone game will be that Senator Josh Hawley has confirmed Grutsch's allegations. "He flat out confirmed that everything Grusch said was true." "Where did he say that?" "I'm not your mom, do your own research!"

If you're going to mention screws but didn't read a book about screws, prepare to be very heavily challenged. Ump, please tone it down and be more respectful. Metabunk isn't like Facebook or Twitter.

If that description had been given immediately after the event (and assumed to be completely accurate), it would falsify the assumption that the object he's describing is the one in the video. In the 3D models there's no discontinuity in the motion of the line of sight; it smoothly sweeps across...

Insightful. There should be a name for this, because it's a persistent problem in these types of motivated reasonings. As someone who has spent way too much time thinking about 7 World Trade Center, I am reminded of the claim that "2.25 seconds of freefall measurement means that all of the...

I found a 20% increase in size. (That link is very old, before the 3D analysis when we were briefly considering Venus as a possibility. If I had to do this over, I wouldn't select individual frames to pixel-count.) Their analysis seems much more coarse (Figure A2 in the Appendix). I don't know...

There's no acceleration in my 30NM scenario. In Sitrec, the 30NM scenario takes a very slight S-curve, but otherwise does not accelerate. In the 10NM scenario there is dramatic acceleration both horizontally and vertically, in fact, there is a near-continuous jerk (change in acceleration). Is it...

Large/close UFOs, ghosts, angels, the Virgin Mary, etc., are variations on the same phenomenon, and are all real in the sense that they are genuinely experienced by some people (or at least they are genuinely remembered as having been experienced). Apparently though, they are all equally...

It's pure poppycock. He might as well say, "I got this information by using 'The Secret,' as described by quantum mechanics." Quantum mechanics describes "other dimensions" exactly as much as it describes "The Secret." I don't know anything about his degree program, but it's very possible that...

There just isn't much for scientists to investigate. If we had unimpeachably solid, hard data on even one case of an object, say, entering and subsequently leaving Earth's atmosphere, scientists definitely would be investigating it.

My favorite question from the public was, "What are the science overlords hiding?" And the answer, from a scientist — um, nothing, because that's not how scientists are. Then again, this "scientist" seemed nervous giving his answer…a real scientist telling the truth wouldn't stammer like that...

It's counterintuitive that these shadows appear against a clear sky. I feel like, in addition to the angle of the Sun, contrail, etc., there must be conditions at play here, such as a certain amount of haze in otherwise clear air. Or perhaps in an industrial world, there are always enough...

I guess Fox News is in the other 1%.

Steven Greenstreet makes a good point:

This is a classic conspiracy belief that's not a conspiracy theory because it makes no sense — perform a highly classified secret test for some nefarious purpose, but then leave the smoking-gun evidence right there. Analogous to how alien craft have low observability but put their lights on at...

Six cows found dead and mutilated along a state highway in east-central Texas with their tongues “completely removed” have prompted an investigation by a county sheriff’s office, authorities said. Ranchers in Madison County first reported a 6-year-old longhorn-cross cow lying on her side, dead...

This is word-for-word identical to my experience from watching six or seven seasons of The Curse of Oak Island. In that case it's the Lagina Brothers instead of Bigelow and Fugal. With the Laginas it's even more transparent because exploring Oak Island is their actual childhood fantasies, which...

Her videos and Sean Carroll's The Biggest Ideas in the Universe (written for a general audience but with all of the equations) are two of the best things that have happened in popular-science communication in a very long time.