UFO News Discussion: Peter Davenport

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Peter Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center, has extensive academic credentials and has financed the center for two decades, focusing on documenting UFO sightings. The center operates a 24-hour hotline for reporting unusual events, gaining a reputation for its independence and commitment to anonymity. Discussions highlight the distinction between collecting data and providing compelling evidence, emphasizing that raw observations alone do not constitute proof without credible interpretation. The challenges of UFO research are noted, including the difficulty in verifying sightings and the skepticism from the scientific community. Ultimately, the conversation reflects the ongoing struggle to reconcile anecdotal accounts with the demand for objective evidence in the field of UFO studies.
  • #31
The fact that the Iran documents were released - and not blacked out from top to bottom as are many documents - shows that this did not relate to any suspected classified technology programs.

Edit: It also suggests to me that the government isn't trying to hide anything about UFOs - it is merely a problem of scale. Vast amounts of information needs to be reviewed before it can be declassified. IIRC, over a billion cold-war documents are lying around with CLASSIFIED stamped on them. They are not necessarily sensitive, but they still must be reviewed before release. This may explain why this information only trickles out slowly. Also, in the case of this and most documents like it, someone had to know what to ask for in order to request a FOIA release. One must have direct knowledge of the event in the first place.

US Intelligence rated the informatioin as highly credible. It was forwarded to the White House and the Joint Chiefs as an item of interest. Conclusion: It was a credible event of interest. To play back-seat driver now and deny the likely credibitlity of the conclusions reached by intelligence in not skepticism, it is denial. Also, this event is not unique.

The concern about winning is exactly why so many skeptics and debunkers are not credible.
 
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  • #32
Misinformation is a plausible explanation. The US and Iran have not been on friendly terms for quite a while.
 
  • #33
We were then. Also, it was seen all over Tehran. Don't you think someone might have actually checked?
 
  • #34
Ivan Seeking said:
We were then. Also, it was seen all over Tehran. Don't you think someone might have actually checked?
I might have to concede that point. I thought the Tehran report was released after the Iranian revolution, but, I do not have any supporting evidence.