[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I only said "could". There could be something going on, but don't discount the likelihood or at least possibility of suggestibility.

In fact these incidents are so rare as to be completely attributable to suggestibility.

If 0.01% (One in 10,000) aircrews report something, it seems like a lot in the media megaphone. A lot of aircrews reported seeing "UFOs" in the 50's and 60's. These things come in spurts.

[PistolPaknMama]

Understood. Thanks.

[Right Wing Assault]

" In fact these incidents are so rare as to be completely attributable to suggestibility."

How does 'rare' come out as 'completely attributable to suggestibility'?

Getting hit in the eye with even a weak laser at night is not something a person could be imagining or dreaming up. Now if they are lying, that's another story.

[WoofDog123]

"A lot of aircrews reported seeing "UFOs" in the 50's and 60's. These things come in spurts."

This doesn't preclude the possibility that a lot of aircrews in the 50's and 60's DID see something they couldn't explain, obviously.

Neither of us was in a cockpit of a plane reporting this this week, but if you are in a cockpit and a green light flashes and reflects on the inside of the cockpit glass, there isn't much doubt about what it is. If (as some pilots reported) 2 or 3 are lighting you up, that is probably pretty distinct also. Assuming that at this point reporting such an incident will subject the cockpit crew to at least an extra few hours of debriefing, interviews, etc., by authorities, I assume any crew reporting such a thing at this point is at least worried that they did see something similar to the stuff reported.

The real question, as always, is source and motive.

[You Dirty Rats]

These things come in spurts.

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