This is a good item to suggest making a donation to the Randi Foundation and others who actively debunk this sort of thing.
seeya@ the next MOFON CONVENTION
My fatherIL was a pilot with Flying Tigers, retired in 1976. He said there were plenty of things in the night sky that could not be explained. He never used the words “UFO”. Even if a group debunked 99.9% of all sightings that still leaves a couple not explainable.
The problem with professional debunkers is that they cannot NOT debunk any paranormal event or they lose their status. I like Randi and crack up at some of his exposures of obvious frauds who nevertheless fooled "expert" scientists.
However, he turned me off by what I consider to be "cooked books" with an experiment he did in Australia with dowsers. He divided a field and salted half with gold/silver coins and the other with bottles of water. The dowsers who claimed they could find precious metals failed miserably - some on the scale of 25% hits. The water dowsers on the other hand scored something like 80% (spitballing actual figures here). Instead of saying that water dowsers might have something going for them, he lumped the two percentages together, averaged them, and debunked both types.
People are so gullible.
It's bad enough we practically worship the environment.
Now we had this craziness.
Art Bell will clean up on this or was he abducted again?
He would never elaborate, even later in life when I was in my 30's and he was much older.
I think he always regretted that slip that I overheard one night.
I'll trust his word over your skepticism...unless you are Air Force and were on the planes with him.