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You're falsely making a claim that this is solved by science.

It's a hypotheses, there is no single, universally accepted explanation for the Hessdalen lights. None whatsoever. You don't track gases moving 8,000kph.

I didn't say it was solved, I said it says on the wiki that they detected gasses. Go and read it yourself, it strongly hints at natural causes.

 

[Mistake]

My mother wanted to watch this with me, I said I'd get the full experience with my colonoscopy

 

[Thurible]

There are "literal" professors who believe in just about anything. People think being a defense contractor or a government agent is more special than it really is, and that they don't believe in tall tales like anyone else. Why do you think they never meet up with real scientists and work with them on what they supposedly know? because they would be exposed in a second.

I once took a psychology course at an accredited university where the professor explained how she believed psychic phenomenon was real and came from a part of the brain called the pineal gland. It was a honestly a bizarre experience that she was allowed to teach something that was pseudoscience at best.

I've also worked with a math teacher who honestly told me that he believed dragons were real and were just time displaced dinosaurs. When I asked him how that would even be possible as there would be physical and historical evidence, he just told me to watch Joe Rogan.

At a museum I worked at, the director insisted to me that positive and negative ions played an important role in one's physical and mental health. She believed in something called "grounding" where a person is supposed to place their bare feet on the floor to get rid of negative ions/energy to balance yourself. She asserted that it was real and based in science despite obviously not being much different from the defunct humor theory (just got to balance the humors/ions). Ions are real but only in the sense that they are charged atoms that receive a positive or negative charge from gaining or losing an electron. They have absolutely nothing to do with mental or physical health. Also just because they have the word "positive" or "negative" in the name does not mean they have anything to do with what is good or bad.



I've learned that just because someone comes from a position of authority and may even be intelligent in some areas does not mean that they cannot act ridiculously or believe in something outlandish. People can be foolish regardless of their stature. Just because someone high up believes extraterrestrials are real and that ufos are alien spacecrafts does not make the claim legitimate. As it currently stands, there is no actual proof that extraterrestrials exist or that we have been visited by them. Trusting the word of "ufologists" based on their conjectures and theories on what is simply missing information on the subject of currently unknown or misunderstood phenomena is not a great idea, even if they have some sort of credentials. Why should I believe that extraterrestrials are responsible for ufos when the more likely alternative is that they are simply man-made objects or just normal earth bound things we don't fully understand yet? Why should I trust someone who is likely biased in their way of thinking and cannot give me empirical evidence of extraterrestrial life? I just don't see why I or anyone else should listen to someone claiming UFOs are alien spacecraft given the lack of evidence even if they had some "good" credentials.