@joe --
I gave you a very specific and credible reference.
What, "Blue Book"? Oh yeah that's specific. Thousands of claims, thousands of investigations(all done halfassed because we were in the middle of a cold war and the government had much better things to worry about). Not exactly what you're claiming here is it. I asked for specifics and you give me the whole damn book saying "it's somewhere in there". Pardon me for having a life and not wanting to waste my time when I'm already more than 99% sure of what I'll find.
And you refuse to put the time in to do the work.
Like I said, there are infinitely more productive ways for me to spend my time. Hell, reading the Quarterly Review could grant me an insight into curing AIDS or cancer or some shit like that. All reading Blue Book will do is give me a headache and confirm my words.
And yet somehow you think you are going to explain something that the US government with all of its resources and experts were not able to explain and not put any work into it?
What resources and experts were put on this? Oh that's right, next to none because
we were in the middle of the Cold War and we had other sinks to throw our money and time into that concerned themselves with staying ahead of the Soviets. Does it ever bother you that all of this "UFO" business started just after the Soviets launched Sputnik and picked up after the Apollo missions to the moon?
And many times the government did find an explanation, just not one that they put into words(Blue Book was a rather lackluster project). They didn't "find" an explanation for the event because there wasn't an event at all, just people lying and making shit up. Humans have been doing this throughout our entire history. How is this any different from some little girl in Europe somewhere seeing an image of the Virgin Mary because she's desperate for attention? Oh that's right, it isn't any different.
Oh, and many scientists have been over the Blue Book and found nothing in there that they couldn't explain(who knows, maybe they missed it). Carl Sagan was one of them, he even wrote a book on this very subject. Perhaps you should pick it up and give it a read, you might actually learn something.
That my friend is at best arrogance, at worst lazy and intellectually dishonest.
Lazy? Yes, most definitely. I could do the work but I'd rather spend my time doing other work that might actually be of benefit to humanity someday.
Arrogant? No, not at all. Arrogance would require that my high opinion of myself is undeserved, and it is most certainly not that.
Intellectually dishonest? Not a chance. Point out where I've been intellectually dishonest and I'll gladly admit it(links are preferable), but you won't find any instances where that's the case.