enough credible evidence exists to believe n UFOs from extraterrestials

There’s no way I can check the citations of Pro, because they don’t point to anything specific on the site. Her sources all go to google’s or youtube’s main page. These websites are so vast, they cannot be counted as sources. Furthermore, “wzus1.search-results.com” seems to be a dead website. Pro appeals to alien abductions and UFO sightings. This evidence is from eyewitnesses, which isn’t credible. There have been many cases where someone was wrongfully convicted because of eyewitness testimony [1]. Our minds process visual information and often make mistakes. For example, a trained pilot mistook Venus for another airplane on a collision course [2]. Eyewitness evidence over time becomes even more flawed. Neuroscientist Steve Novella states [3], “Human memory is utterly flawed. Like perceptions, memory is not a passive recording; instead, our memories are constructed entirely by our brains. In fact, they’re tied together with everything that we think and believe with our internal model of reality...There is a false assumption that all problems with memory are associated with recall. Some memories never form; in other words, we may experience something but never consolidate it from short-term into long-term memory. Memories also degrade, fuse, and morph over time.” UFO sightings and testimony after the fact are simply not credible enough to claim that aliens exist. Supposed alien abductions can be explained by sleep paralysis, then memory corruption caused by UFO support groups. Sleep paralysis is an natural event where “a person wakes up paralyzed, senses a presence in the room, feels fear or even terror, and may hear buzzing and humming noises or see strange lights. A visible or invisible entity may even sit on their chest, shaking, strangling, or prodding them.” [4]. Despite the seemingly supernatural nature of these events, they have a neuroscientific explanation [5] Many alien abductions can be explained by this phenomenon [4]. A UFO isn’t enough to claim evidence of aliens. It could be a variety of things. Swamp gas for example can create lights in the sky [6]. Drones have also caused spikes in UFO sightings [7]. Even if I accept that they are some sort of new technology, it doesn’t prove the existence of aliens anymore than it proves the existence of new experimental technology from another country or a secret government project. Pro cites the Belgian UFO wave, however it’s wrong to state the F16s detected the UFO on their Radars ...the F-16 pilot saw no UFOs at all. I spoke with some of his friends who had laughed with him about the UFO hypothesis. Had it not been for the SOBEPS team, these so-called mysterious radar returns would have been labeled as ordinary “angels”. Another important thing is that at one point the “return” remained unchanged on the screen while the plane was maneuvring, which is indicative of an instrument failure. This is also what Lieutenant-Colonel Salmon from the Belgian Air Force Electronic War Center remarked when he was interviewed by journalists of Science & Vie Junior in 1992. And this is also what I had written in an article that the ten scientists had chosen to add to their press-release in October 1991. [8] The author goes onto write most of the claims of UFO sightings are responsible because of the publicity done by SOBEPS. Furthermore, Nick Pope’s radiation readings have been said to be background noise from the very manufactures of Pope’s device. [9] Pro states that no human pilot could survive the acceleration and deceleration of the observed ship. However, this opens up the question of how an alien could. How would it counteract the law of inertia? Pro’s last statement is “If we are the only beings in the universe, it seems like an aweful waste of space.” This is an argument for the existence of aliens in general. Not an argument that evidence exists to conclude UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin. Explanatory Power. The idea of aliens interacting with us has very poor explanatory power. Most of the universe is hostile to life. If any alien life exists, it most likely is far away. If aliens somehow managed to figure out light speed or faster than light travel, why would they come to Earth? They would be leaving their families and due to time dilation might never see them again, to see some primitive planet, which they don’t even make direct public contact with. Furthermore, why would aliens need to abduct so many humans? They can master interstellar travel, but are too stupid to understand human physiology? Why would aliens tease us with UFOs? If they wanted to contact us, then why not do so overtly? If they didn’t, why are they flying them so close? The idea that aliens contact us has weak explanatory power. Back to Pro Sources [1] http://www.scientificamerican.com... [2] http://www.foxnews.com... [3] Novella, Steve. Your Deceptive Mind. A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Lecture 4. P. 35-36 in guidebook. [4] http://www.csicop.org... [5] https://www.braindecoder.com... [6] http://userpages.umbc.edu... [7] http://www.huffingtonpost.com... [8] http://www.skepticreport.com... [9] http://www.ianridpath.com...