Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30958430-20170213194227/@comment-31166511-20170217002637

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

There are too many mundane explanations for a simple missed connection. You dad went to the wrong place or his watch was off, or some other miscommunication.

I once saw what I thought was a silver flying saucer floating over my home town. I kept blinking, thinking that it would go away once I cleared what had gotten in my eyes.

I was riding across a bridge on a motorcycle which was why I thought something had gotten in my eyes. But the saucer persisted in floating silently over the buildings.

I noticed that there was a lot of glare obscuring the flying object's details and I thought if I drove far enough to see it at another angle that I could make out more details.

I drove about half a mile before the Sun was no longer at exactly the perfect wrong angle to wipe out the details of the perfectly normal airplane in the sky.

The plane was flying at about a 45 degree angle to my path, so the wings and body lined up together instead of appearing like a cross-shape. The sun glare did the rest.

I had assumed the plane was as close as the buildings and the same size they were. The plane was actually so far away that the engines were not audible, making it appear to float silently over the city.

If I had been on foot, there would have been no way to leave the area where the illusion all came together. It was only because I was moving 30 mph that I got to a spot where I could see the plane clearly.

Seeing is SO not believing. You need much more rigorous proof to eliminate all the odd posibilities.