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I had a witness report me a sighting once that bothered me for weeks. Lights moving in formation, silent, impossible angles. Spent hours on it. Then I got the flight path data from the airport twelve miles south. Helicopter drill. Same witness retracted a few years later, and we grabbed coffee. She said the retraction was harder than the original report. It made her a better observer after that. Fear of being wrong keeps you sloppy.

All right, I hear you. You've got the data lined up. I still think people should push back on these things, because there's a lot of noise in the signal. But you did the homework. That's more than most people do. I respect that, even if I'm not ready to stop questioning everything.

This thread is what we look like when we work right. Skepticism without cruelty. Questions without dogma. Data taken seriously. Thank you all for this.

Appreciate that. I'll be quieter next time. And I'll check the software first.