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If I see the moon in the sky I'm going to believe it's the moon and it doesn't matter to me how many people tell me it's a UFO, and that they should know, because they've seen dozens of them.

Oh come on, Wissa, you can do better than that. A more accurate comparison would be: If I have never seen the moon except in video, and I see a video of the moon it doesn't matter to me how many people who've actually seen the moon LIVE and IN PERSON tell me that particular video is falsely labeled and is something other than the moon.

Or something like that! ;^)

Seriously, a lot of inexperienced, sheltered people can reach erroneous conclusions from watching a couple of minutes of edited video of a particular item. But people who are experienced in seeing that particular item live, along with people who are considered EXPERTS in that particular item, are (whether you like it or not) goiug to be less inclined to reach an erroneous conclusion than someone who a) is not an expert and/or b) has no experience seeing the item live.

I have never seen a tornado, but I have seen videos of them. If the veracity of a tornado video was in question and it looked iffy to me but someone from the midwest experienced in seeing tornadoes live thought the video was genuine, I would not presume to think his conclusion was inferior to mine. The opposite, in fact.

Yep...I would also let the opinion of someone who studies tornadoes for a living weigh more than that of the same sheltered individual with no real related background or expertise~

When I see the screenshots that show the shadow of the contrail, I believe I'm seeing a contrail, and not the smoke trail from a missile, because I know how that shadow is formed. It happens when the sun is exactly lined up with a long length of the contrail, like looking down a gunbarrel.

It doesn't matter to me how many missiles you've seen launched. I'm not going to ignore my understanding of what I'm seeing.

The shadow. The dissipation of the contrail by the wind farther back. The relative lack of motion of the object creating the trail when the camera isn't creating an appearance of motion by zooming in on it. I won't ignore those factors and start thinking it was a missile unless you could show me some photographic evidence that shows a smoke trail from a missile displaying those characteristics.

Seriously, a lot of inexperienced, sheltered people can reach erroneous conclusions from watching a couple of minutes of edited video of a particular item. But people who are experienced in seeing that particular item live, along with people who are considered EXPERTS in that particular item, are (whether you like it or not) goiug to be less inclined to reach an erroneous conclusion than someone who a) is not an expert and/or b) has no experience seeing the item live. I have never seen a tornado, but I have seen videos of them. If the veracity of a tornado video was in question and it looked iffy to me but someone from the midwest experienced in seeing tornadoes live thought the video was genuine, I would not presume to think his conclusion was inferior to mine. The opposite, in fact.

The experts agree. The science is settled. No need for me to think for myself.

Where have I heard that before?