{"id":2535,"date":"2025-03-10T10:28:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T10:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/witness-testimonies-do-not-count-as-evidence-when-discussing-extraterrestrials-this-is-not-a-court-of-law-this-is-a-set-of-claims-that-requires-debris-from-crashed-space-craft-or-bodies-of-its\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T10:28:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T10:28:34","slug":"witness-testimonies-do-not-count-as-evidence-when-discussing-extraterrestrials-this-is-not-a-court-of-law-this-is-a-set-of-claims-that-requires-debris-from-crashed-space-craft-or-bodies-of-its","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/witness-testimonies-do-not-count-as-evidence-when-discussing-extraterrestrials-this-is-not-a-court-of-law-this-is-a-set-of-claims-that-requires-debris-from-crashed-space-craft-or-bodies-of-its\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Witness testimonies&#8221; do not count as evidence, when discussing extraterrestrials: this is not a court of law. This is a set of claims that requires debris from crashed space craft or bodies of its occupants, to be taken seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to discussing extraterrestrial life, &#8220;witness testimonies&#8221; shouldn&#8217;t be regarded as valid evidence. Unlike a courtroom setting, we aren&#8217;t working with rules and penalties\u2014this is about substantiating claims. <\/p>\n<p>If someone asserts that extraterrestrial beings (or non-human intelligences) are visiting Earth in their spacecraft, we require concrete proof to take that assertion seriously. Simply put, witness accounts, which often boil down to &#8220;he said, she said,&#8221; are insufficient. Such circumstantial evidence is only relevant in legal contexts, not in our investigation of the UFO phenomenon. <\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the credibility of witness accounts is further compromised when the witnesses profit from their stories, whether through books, Netflix series, or monetized podcasts. What\u2019s truly needed are tangible, scientific evidences, like physical debris from crashed spacecraft or the remains of their occupants. Without this kind of hard evidence, the claims remain unsubstantiated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nWhen it comes to discussing extraterrestrial life, &#8220;witness testimonies&#8221; shouldn&#8217;t be regarded as valid evidence. Unlike a courtroom setting, we aren&#8217;t working with rules and penalties\u2014this is about substantiating claims. If someone asserts that extraterrestrial beings (or non-human intelligences) are visiting Earth in their spacecraft, we require concrete proof to take that assertion seriously. Simply&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/witness-testimonies-do-not-count-as-evidence-when-discussing-extraterrestrials-this-is-not-a-court-of-law-this-is-a-set-of-claims-that-requires-debris-from-crashed-space-craft-or-bodies-of-its\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;&#8220;Witness testimonies&#8221; do not count as evidence, when discussing extraterrestrials: this is not a court of law. This is a set of claims that requires debris from crashed space craft or bodies of its occupants, to be taken seriously&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufos","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}