Greetings! Enough Chains? Occasionally I receive a massage, or an email, which contains an image of an alleged unidentified flying object. Usually the image is accompanied by several questions, questions which are asked in an honest and straightforward manner; “What is that?,” “Is there something anomalous in the photo?,” “Does this photo actually show something out of the ordinary?.” Such questions are outstanding and should be asked about any photograph which may contain something out of the ordinary, but making a firm declaration is something altogether different. The image attached to this blog posting was said, under no uncertain terms, to be a “craft.” I asked how the determination was made, and was told “The witness has had multiple events.” I was unable to get the name of the witness in question, nor was I able to get any other details which would allow for a more in-depth examination of the image. All the information, including the image, was brought to me from a second-hand source, who would not provide any additional details despite my repeated inquiries. Now to be perfectly clear, the image in question may in fact contain an extraterrestrial construct, but making that determination strictly from witness testimony alone is not good enough, more chains of evidence are necessary, and essential! Multiple witnesses, radar traces, physical evidence, etc…, are needed, and even then, declaring this image to be a “craft” cannot be supported without a piece of technology which is determined after intense scrutiny to be non-terrestrial, and artificial in origin. Our investigative standards have to be higher, otherwise we are still inhabiting the realm of pseudoscience. Thank you for your interest.
Enough Chains?
Gail Hodson Shirk
UFO’Real? A Historical Review
By William Pullin, UFO Historian
Enough Chains?
Greetings! Enough Chains? Occasionally I receive a massage, or an email, which contains an image of an alleged unidentified flying object. Usually the image is accompanied by several questions, questions which are asked in an honest and straightforward manner; “What is that?,” “Is there something anomalous in the photo?,” “Does this photo actually show something out of the ordinary?.” Such questions are outstanding and should be asked about any photograph which may contain something out of the ordinary, but making a firm declaration is something altogether different. The image attached to this blog posting was said, under no uncertain terms, to be a “craft.” I asked how the determination was made, and was told “The witness has had multiple events.” I was unable to get the name of the witness in question, nor was I able to get any other details which would allow for a more in-depth examination of the image. All the information, including the image, was brought to me from a second-hand source, who would not provide any additional details despite my repeated inquiries. Now to be perfectly clear, the image in question may in fact contain an extraterrestrial construct, but making that determination strictly from witness testimony alone is not good enough, more chains of evidence are necessary, and essential! Multiple witnesses, radar traces, physical evidence, etc…, are needed, and even then, declaring this image to be a “craft” cannot be supported without a piece of technology which is determined after intense scrutiny to be non-terrestrial, and artificial in origin. Our investigative standards have to be higher, otherwise we are still inhabiting the realm of pseudoscience. Thank you for your interest.