Reply #34: Think of it a different way.

[Milo_Bloom]

1 "real" sighting can cause a flood of phony sightings either because people misinterpret what they see OR they want to be important so they try and fake it.

Let me use crop circles as an example. For thousands of years, every once in a while an actual simple circle would appear in crops (in medieval times it was considered a mark of demonic interference and a bad omen for that years crops). But if you fully research the history, you will find the "reports" of these date back to the origination of crops AND is a fairly worldwide occurrence, albeit quite rare. Once people figured out how to replicate and complicate what is probably a very simple, natural, phenomena involving ball or plasma lightening discharge, any potential to actually research a natural explanation was gone. Now you have 1000's of these created each year looking more and more complex and silly.

However, just because we now have 1000's of "sightings" caused by people faking it, doesn't mean that once every few years there isn't some natural phenomenon causing a small, simple, circle to appear in crops.


In the case of UFO's to dismiss all the sightings, even those caught by deep space telescopes and satellites, just because a multitude of weirdos want to jump on the bandwagon doesn't make sense. As for their ability to maintain secrecy, that presumes that they are attempting to maintain secrecy. In the same way that a camera person shooting nature may just stand far enough back so as not to disturb the habitat, they can be "spotted" and the camera person probably doesn't care all that much.