Highly trained pilots are still subject to the same cognitive biases that most folks are. The important thing is whether or not the claims are evaluated rigorously and scientifically. And every single time that the due diligence is put into these claims the result is that the "UFO" is identified as very likely something else such as a balloon or another plane.

This alone is a problem because it completely inverts the burden of proof. The burden should be that the very first step is to put in the rigorous work to identify anything it might be that is a mundane explanation, and only then to put together a strong case of positive evidence that there is something odd and unexplainable going on. However, that's not the way these things have been going. Instead the typically pattern is a half-assed investigation at the level of "I dunno, it looks weird" followed by jumping to the conclusion that something that "looks weird" must be an alien spaceship or a classified spy plane or something. And so instead it falls to a small group of amateurs to actually put in the work and then they'll come back and say "oh yeah, this is actually a video of another plane, and here's the exact plane it was", which is an unreasonable level of burden for them, but that's the sorry state things are in because so many people are so biased toward wanting to believe these things are alien spacecraft.

"Highly trained, highly educated" does not prevent someone from experiencing the human condition. I've seen people, who are celebrated experts in their field, say stupid stuff a ton of times.

For instance, my cousin is an A-10 pilot, he also believes Tr*mp won the 2020 election.

You can be highly trained and highly educated and still be a looney toon.

See: Ben "the pyramids are grain silos" Carson

I’m in agreement with you, the past 4 years have seen a sea change in how the topic is being viewed/discussed and I can assure you, regardless of what our government/military agencies say, the do know more than they are letting on/revealing and there absolutely is more evidence than what has been revealed thus far.

They are taking this seriously despite what is revealed in public and to think otherwise is delusional. As you said, there are too many reports/testimony from highly credible witnesses to ignore. Also to use a straw man argument like 1 in 5 people claim they’ve seen a ghost again doesn’t address the issue at hand.

We’re at a point now where the issue isn’t if these things aren’t real, the US government says they are, the issue is what are they… I prefer to contribute to the discussion by adding to the effort of finding out, not dismissing reality outright. Something is going on, period. What it is is the part that everyone should be excited about, especially regular visitors/members of a space subreddit lol

woman astronauts ride 20 hours wearing a diaper to threaten with a gun a love rival.

> Some of these guys are highly trained, highly educated

That has a value of exactly zero to the scientific method. Eye witness testimony is unreliable regardless of whose testimony it is. That's science 101.