(Jun 27, 2022 07:24 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: James R and I had a lengthy debate about the Portage County ufo. He was trying to convince me that it was just a coincidental confluence of a meteor, the planet Venus, and a weather balloon all on the same night happening to the same policemen. It was one of the most moronic explanations I have ever heard.Yes remember it well - I also participated. The skeptics brigade were then and still are a joke.
http://www.sciforums.com/threads/portage...66.158484/
(Jun 27, 2022 09:50 PM)Leigha Wrote: FWIW, I don’t think you’re a “UFO nut,” MR. lolwegs - noticed you voiced skepticism at SF thread that there were no other witnesses to the claimed UFO encounter by Michalek.
I think that the tic tac video is probably the most convincing in that what the pilots saw, can’t currently be explained. Could be mundane, but we don’t know.
But this Falcon Lake story …hmm. It has some story holes and inconsistencies (that we’re discussing as well over at SF) that makes me wonder if the claimant had other motives for telling such a story.
Think of it this way though, the Pentagon is taking UAP’s seriously now and that’s progress, at least. I want some of them to be investigated because it could be a matter of public safety, and dismissing them too easily can be dangerous in the long run.
Not directly that incident, but read under the sub-heading 'Other Sightings', towards the end of that article cited in #6
https://www.donkeyjunk.com/post/falcon-l...o-incident