[Swordmaker]

But that doesn't rule out that IN THIS CASE they were mistaken about the effects of viewing the lighthouse and lightship through the woods while sleepy, tired, and scared at night.

That's why I added the other possibilities to Quix assertion.

The SciFi Channel's assertion that this sighting is more important than Roswell is over the top as well... a mere sighting as opposed to reports of a crashed ship recovered by our military??? Not even in the same league.

[Qwinn]

"The SciFi Channel's assertion that this sighting is more important than Roswell is over the top as well... a mere sighting as opposed to reports of a crashed ship recovered by our military??? Not even in the same league."

Eh, I dunno about that. Depends on what it is you're evaluating, I guess - the importance of what was said to have happened, or the evidence available that something -did- happen and was covered up. It's not like we have actual physical evidence of a wrecked alien craft from Roswell available to the public, but we do have pretty solid evidence that something very significant, rather inexplicable by any other theory and of unusual concern was covered up at Roswell. I didn't see the special tonight, but I'm gathering that in Rendlesham we have more available evidence of a coverup of something similar and fairly inexplicable (assuming you don't buy the lighthouse explanation) than at Roswell. So in that sense, if you base the "importance" on how much available evidence of a coverup there exists, you could say Rendlesham competes with it. Now if both theories were -actually proven true-, then yes, I'd agree that Roswell would seem to be more significant :) But I think the "importance" at this point has to rest on how convincing the overall evidence is - until the general public believes either story, it's not really going to matter.

Qwinn