PRINCIPLES OF UFO VISUAL SIGHTING INVESTIGATION

CHECK THESE WHEN EVALUATING A UFO SIGHTING:


  1. People who report UFOs sometimes have ulterior motives:
  2. People do not always see and identify what is really there. Examples:
  3. Pranksters are always ready to make you see a UFO:
  4. Some sightings combine unrelated events:
  5. People will think of UFOs whenever something unusual happens:
  6. Power failures can cause UFOs more often than UFOs cause power failures:
  7. If a person is told where there is a UFO, he will find one:

    This is not meant to impugn the witnesses. The human visual system can NOT provide the information necessary for correct identification.

  8. If a person has never heard of an object, that person does not know what it is:
  9. For each list, to know any value in the list requires:
  10. The sighter can get the following data accurately with presence of mind:
  11. People make strange assumptions about a UFO once they decide it's a space ship:
  12. UFOs are unidentified for reasons other than being space ships:
  13. UFO effects are not always what they seem:
  14. RADAR does not give an absolutely correct picture of where objects are:
  15. Rare and unproven events that could cause UFO sightings:
  16. False "knowledge" sometimes prevents identification:
  17. The UFO sighting may not be the reason for the government secrecy:
  18. All sighting methods lose information. Here are the types of information lost:
  19. UFOs are hard to analyze scientifically:
  20. Evaluation of the UFO problem is hampered by nonscientific behavior:

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