S.E.T.I. just isn't a good idea.

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

Process of elimination. 'I saw something that wasn't "ours", I saw something that wasn't "theirs", it was not an aircraft as we know it but it was artificially constructed". This is basically what a lot of those statements say, what possibly could it be?

In research circles, this is called 'negative deduction/reasoning'. That is to say, 'I know what it is not, but I do not know what it is'. Evidence relies on positive deduction, which, obviously, tells you what the sample, item, object, individual is/are. The problem that UFO research has is that it relies entirely on negative deduction, which is why it is not taken seriously by the other scientific disciplines.