There's something about them naming the St. Louis area, "Southern Illinois" that bothers me. I am from Southern Illinois and East St. Louis and Belleville is technically just the St. Louis Metro area. Southern Illinois would be near and around the Shawnee national forest. Also they should have noted on the hundreds of UFO sightings over the true southern Illinois in the past 60 years. That would have given them something to talk about. There have been more sightings than just that one. That one sighting in 2000 was nothing compared to the ones that have haunted the area. also Scott Air Force Base was obviously the one flying the craft in the area, and the locals are not very efficient and they tend to panic easily.
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Correlated data and "A Priori" Skepticism
ZeTomes30 April 2011
One thing that kept me viewing this documentary, since I'm too much skeptical to follow usual UFO documentaries till the end as they usually present preconceived assumptions, was the first dialogs between the operator and the police officer. They expressed inquiry and skepticism with a satirical approach to usual misinterpretations. As the episode develops the tunes of the dialogs vary from genuine expositions labeled by sober perplexity and the changing of an operator's satirical tone to a trembling wondering.
It was explicit for me at that time that every person involved was being serious, analytic and not being part of a sensationalist tabloid news.
The number of reliable police officer witnesses increases as it allows to mark a distant trajectory of the unknown peculiar sight, corroborating that the sight itself, independently of what it was, was real. The vast distance of the route put away the hypothesis of a misinterpretation.
In opposite to usual sensationalistic UFO cases, when it's assumed a priori that each case represents the irrefutable proof of alien intelligence, this one shows a development of perplexity, attempt of describing something unexplained in the common database of known either artificial or Geo-natural phenomena, coining not a dogma but a demand for explanation, either with scrutinized testimonies, contact with military forces and specialized people for an accurate recreation of what they saw.
The tendency for accumulating data searching various fields, logically scrutinizing valid hypothesis, therefore an open exposed approach and scientific by inherence in opposition to a secretive threatened and single like relic proof, convinced me this is one of the best documented, corroborated cases in UFO history, of course presented in a same way rationalist, logic and very well constructed documentary.
It was explicit for me at that time that every person involved was being serious, analytic and not being part of a sensationalist tabloid news.
The number of reliable police officer witnesses increases as it allows to mark a distant trajectory of the unknown peculiar sight, corroborating that the sight itself, independently of what it was, was real. The vast distance of the route put away the hypothesis of a misinterpretation.
In opposite to usual sensationalistic UFO cases, when it's assumed a priori that each case represents the irrefutable proof of alien intelligence, this one shows a development of perplexity, attempt of describing something unexplained in the common database of known either artificial or Geo-natural phenomena, coining not a dogma but a demand for explanation, either with scrutinized testimonies, contact with military forces and specialized people for an accurate recreation of what they saw.
The tendency for accumulating data searching various fields, logically scrutinizing valid hypothesis, therefore an open exposed approach and scientific by inherence in opposition to a secretive threatened and single like relic proof, convinced me this is one of the best documented, corroborated cases in UFO history, of course presented in a same way rationalist, logic and very well constructed documentary.
UFO over Illinois
wran8656219 September 2006
I have watched the documentary twice and find it very interesting. When offering an opinion as to whether or not this may have been an extraterrestrial craft I consider several things. First, I find that size inconsistent with experimental aircraft. Applying new or experimental technology to a craft this size goes against the logic of efficiency where budgets and defense department R&D is concerned. Next, I consider the history of similar sightings from highly reputable and credible witnesses. Rather than trying to suggest what it is I find it more reasonable to suggest what it isn't. Obviously, this object was not the Moon, Venus, a meteor or the Goodyear Blimp. That leaves two choices, either something top secret or something developed outside of our technological arena. Given the history of various sightings over decades I prefer to conclude the later. WTR
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