{"id":4427,"date":"2025-03-11T17:05:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T17:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/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-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T17:05:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T17:05:49","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-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/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-2\/","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 discussing extraterrestrials, &#8220;witness testimonies&#8221; are not sufficient as evidence\u2014this isn&#8217;t a court of law. To take claims seriously, we need tangible proof, such as debris from crashed spacecraft or the remains of their occupants.<\/p>\n<p>I contend that witness statements\u2014essentially a &#8220;he said, she said&#8221; scenario\u2014are irrelevant in the context of the UFO phenomenon. This type of circumstantial evidence is only meaningful in legal proceedings, where rules and consequences apply.<\/p>\n<p>Here, we aren&#8217;t bound by the same legal framework. If you&#8217;re asserting that extraterrestrial beings (or non-human intelligences) are visiting our planet and flying in our skies, we need concrete evidence to back those claims.<\/p>\n<p>Simply relying on witness &#8220;testimony&#8221; won&#8217;t suffice, especially when those witnesses later profit from their story through book sales, Netflix series, or podcast sponsorships. What we truly require is scientific proof\u2014like physical debris from advanced technology or biological evidence from extraterrestrials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nWhen discussing extraterrestrials, &#8220;witness testimonies&#8221; are not sufficient as evidence\u2014this isn&#8217;t a court of law. To take claims seriously, we need tangible proof, such as debris from crashed spacecraft or the remains of their occupants. I contend that witness statements\u2014essentially a &#8220;he said, she said&#8221; scenario\u2014are irrelevant in the context of the UFO phenomenon. This&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/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-2\/\" 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":691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4427","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\/4427","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=4427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}