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The law may be different in the US, but in the UK it is permissible to introduce 'bad character' evidence against a defendant if they themselves attack the character of a witness against them. I once sat on a jury and was surprised when the defence counsel read out the criminal record of his...

I see that the references in Grusch's statement are to PTSD, grief and depression. As I mentioned in another thread, Grusch has also been reported to be autistic. In that case the report came from none other than Ross Coulthart, based on his own conversations with Grusch. In the accounts I...

It's very difficult to keep track of these things, but I'm almost certain that Graves has denied personally seeing anything anomalous. (Eburacum also questions this point at #10 above.) People may get a contrary impression because Graves sometimes seems very confident about what the anomalous...

Perhaps worth mentioning that I have seen a number of claims on social media (Twitter and Reddit anyway) that David Grusch is by his own account autistic. These claims seem to arise from a recent interview with the journalist Ross Coulthart, who was one of the first to 'break' the Grusch story...

It's difficult to understand these claims, even if we ignore the contradictions in different reports. Who are these 4.8 million people, where do they come from, where have they gone, and - crucially - why? I can understand that survivors from places like Mariupol and Bakhmut, which have been...

That seems an awful lot, even by Stalin's standards. Are we sure the 'transfer' doesn't include the population of those provinces (oblasts, or whatever) of Ukraine which Russia claims to have legally 'incorporated' in the Russian Federation? In that case, most of them would not have physically...

Another zombie UFO case: it keeps stumbling around causing occasional excitement long after it should have had a decent burial. It has just been revived in a report in the online version of the UK tabloid the Daily Mirror. The report (link following) says that the video has just been...

I agree, but the IR signature would depend to some extent on the background. If the object has a background of empty sky, essentially at the temperature of space, while the object has the temperature of the ambient air, it might still appear as 'hot'. There is also the question of motion. A...

Possibly, but he seems to think the object in the Flir1 video is probably a balloon (his point (8) appears to refer to whatever is shown in Flir1), which I don't think is a popular view here. I can't recall if it has even been discussed.

This may not be the best thread for what follows, but it does arise from discussions of the recent House committee hearing. Mick West and Art Levine have both retweeted a comment on Twitter (X?) by a Dr Phil Metzger, who describes himself as a planetary scientist who has previously worked on...

Thanks. I think that resolves the discrepancy that worried me. The structures behind the engines are symmetrical, so from the viewpoint of the original photos different parts of the two structures would look very similar.

I thought they looked odd too, but I was reluctant to expose my ignorance by saying so. In the large photo at #12 above there appears to be a structure attached to the wing just adjoining the 'right hand' engine on the side of the engine furthest from the fuselage. By symmetry, one would...

The UK daily newspaper The Times usually has three editorial articles (known as leaders) each day. The 'third leader' is traditionally relatively short and lightweight, giving a humorous or satirical comment on some news story of the day. Today's third leader, headed 'Out of this World', is a...

I noticed especially the following sentence in Fravor's opening statement: I can't be sure without checking through hours of Fravor's previous accounts, but this struck me as being more explicit on some points. Notably, it suggests that Fravor was never closer to the object than about half a...

I think I know who you mean by the first description, but not sure about the second! If you are thinking of Ronald Reagan, by the time of his election to the Presidency he had been a career politician for about 20 years, including 8 years as Governor of California. He arguably had more prior...

I haven't watched or listened to much of the hearing, but I note that Ryan Graves is still banging on about 'cubes on a sphere', without mentioning the plausible hypothesis (discussed on Metabunk and elsewhere) that these were radar reflectors. Fravor's opening statement mentions the way in...

Do you mean no correlation? Fravor (and I think Dietrich) have previously said they had no radar contact with the object from their on-board radar. (And Duke says at #405 that Fravor repeated this today.) I've pointed out before that if radar gets no return from an object within a mile or...

I've been following this forum for a good few years (initially mainly for 'flat earth' posts), but I don't recall anyone claiming the leaked Navy videos (specifically Gimbal, Gofast, and FLIR1) were faked. If you can't give at least a couple of examples you should withdraw your comment.

If there were big cats wild in the English countryside, sheep farmers would soon know about it. And farmers invariably have dogs, which would soon sniff out the evidence. I would quite like the stories to be true, but I doubt it.

I don't know where to begin. Perhaps with Czechoslovakia in 1968? The USSR, and its successor state the Russian Federation, were/are vile totalitarian states which threatened democratic government and basic human rights throughout the world. In Europe (I live in the UK) we almost daily hear...