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...of course... the debunkers have it coming and going - if the camera work is poor, they cry foul and ask why on earth someone can't hold the camera steady - but if it is held steady, suddenly it is too steady! If someone reacts in the background it is overacting - if someone deosn't react it...

I agree with Manxman – Ufology, if you want to argue the definition of UFO further, then perhaps you should take it to another thread. I have titled this thread – UFOS: the Research, the Evidence. For the purposes of this thread I have defined UFOs as – Unidentified Flying Objects (nothing...

I stated: “A UFO is an Unidentified Flying Object. Nothing more, nothing less ...” Ufology – what does that statement even mean? According to the Oxford Dictionary, a definition is: “”1 a statement of the exact meaning of a word” and “2 an exact statement or description of the nature, scope...

I agree manxman – this is getting a bit surreal. A UFO is an Unidentified Flying Object. Nothing more, nothing less. Some hypothetical explanations for UFOs include: Misidentified mundane objects Hoaxes Psychological manifestations Unknown natural phenomena Advanced “black” technology...

First, you are arguing here using the methods of the debunker. A primary rule of debate for the debunker is to put forward unsubstantiated claims or opinion as if they were fact. However, just because someone says so, does not make it so. If you make a claim, then you need to support that claim...

Ruppelt stated: “I know the full story about flying saucers and I know that it has never before been told because I organized and was chief of the Air Force's Project Blue Book, the special project set up to investigate and analyze unidentified flying object, or UFO, reports. (UFO is the...

Thank you for taking the time to do some serious reading and research on this Ron. Too many people just take things on face value and frame their conclusions about it based on their own belief system without ever conducting any critical analysis. I believe the Battelle study to be an extremely...

The acronym UFO was coined in 1952 by Captain Edward J. Ruppelt:“I know the full story about flying saucers and I know that it has never before been told because I organized and was chief of the Air Force's Project Blue Book, the special project set up to investigate and analyze unidentified...

From the article it seems that MUFON has recorded a spike in UFO reports. Ben Radford seems up to his old tricks in “explaining away” that spike. First he includes a ridiculous graphic from the 1950s (“Streaking out of the unknown comes a strange new terror! The flying Saucer”) which is of...

If we are being pedantic, then we should use language and meaning correctly. UFO is an acronym (not a word). It means by definition “Unidentified Flying Object” – nothing more, nothing less. The acronym (UFO) has however come to be popularly associated with “extraterrestrials”, that is, in...

Yes, agreed, but the problem (or as USI’s ufology would have it – the solution!) is that “UFO”, rightly or wrongly, has become associated with “ET”. So when someone says “UFO”, everybody automatically assumes “Oh, you mean ET”. USI’s ufology basically says we should just accept that and turn...

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Hi ufology – …the Nellis object is not travelling directly away from the camera. It has some lateral (left to right) movement and then angles upward (and on reviewing the video you are right I think in that any “jerky” side-to-side motions of the object are probably due to camera movement)...

Agreed. In such a case I believe the rocket exhaust flare would be too bright to allow any shape determination such as you mention. It would also be a bright spot, not a dark one… Here is another infrared video – definitely of a rocket… () Possibly… but I am no expert. However, given that it...

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Video Comment The primary assumption made is about the video’s provenance. However, to ask for confidence in its provenance as a percentage term is the wrong question. One either accepts the video as real based on the evidence we have or one does not. If you accept it, then you work from...

Why not go "debunker" over the Battelle Study (http://www.ufocasebook.com/pdf/specialreport14.pdf)? I thought I might have got more comment about it, given the assumptions made and the extremely important implications... Nvertheless, for your request I'll have to look up the Blue Book files -...

Ron – I can accept most of what you are saying, however I would like to pick up on a couple of points you made. In reference to the Battelle study (http://www.ufocasebook.com/pdf/specialreport14.pdf): I really do wish that people would stop saying this Ron. Do you criticise the data on which...

Hi ufology - thank you for your comment. I agree that the statistical outcomes and conclusions (as opposed to the whitewashed written summaries) from the Battelle report should be considered to be strong evidence – perhaps stronger than any we might be able to obtain from a similar study...

Can you provide some links to where those organisations have stated the 5% estimate to be based on any actual research they have done – or are they merely accepting the common “received wisdom”? But that is precisely my point. The Battelle study provided a methodology and it provided the...