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Contents 1 =============================================================================== 2 First sighting? 3 AAF? 4 Coincidence? 5 Meteors and meteoroids 6 Rebuttals to skepticism

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Hmmm, I belive that he has seen more than 3 disk, he even drawn a picture (This picture is in the Bluebook). Please, someone, resolve this issue. Dobrowsky | Talk 07:18, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

[edit] First sighting?

Kenneth Arnold's June 24, 1947 sighting is considered to be the first flying saucer sighting....but the Maury Island incident predates it by three days (June 21). Why isn't Harold Dahl's sighting considered the first? Kingturtle 08:54, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

There were many sightings before Arnold's, but Arnold's sighting was the first widely reported one. Arnold also came off as a sincere, "straight-arrow" who seemed to have seen something that genuinely puzzled him. User:Dr Fil 5:20, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

Then why doesn't the article say "first widely reported one" instead of "generally considered the first major"? demo 08:24, 2005 Jun 24 (UTC)

[edit] AAF?

Four times this article mentions the AAF. I have no idea what the AAF is. Can someone elaborate? Kingturtle 00:42, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

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Done. In two places I've added that "AAF" stands for "Army Air Force." User:Dr Fil 02:00, 21 May 2005

[edit] Coincidence?

Is it just me, or is there a coincidence noticeable here? I mean, in the last line of the article, it is stated that Arnold was friends with Raymond A. Palmer. This couldn't have been a publicity stunt, That's just gotten out of hand over the years, Could it?

That would leave an awful lot of us SCI FI and Fantasy Geeks disappointed... Michael 14:32, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Arnold didn't meet Palmer until after his UFO sighting had been reported and widely publicized by the "mainstream" press. I don't believe he had ever met Palmer before his sighting.

But you dpn't know!

[edit] Meteors and meteoroids

The article mentions a "comet" while Maccabee who is cited, does not; rather he uses the word "meteor" and the phrase "meteor train." 208.110.144.118 12:46, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rebuttals to skepticism

There were a number of unsourced and unverifiable "rebuttals" to the skeptical explanations offered. I removed them. By the way, Maccabee is not a reliable source and should not be used. ScienceApologist (talk) 03:14, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Maccabee is a PhD physicist. Who are you to claim the man isn't a "reliable source"? Oh right, it's so just because you say so.

I see you are right back to your usual pattern of article vandalism--claim the source isn't "reliable" or "valid", then delete it. If you really wanted other or "better" sources, why didn't you bother to ask for them first like a proper Wikipedian? No, "Science"Apologist, you just immediately delete.

In all cases, you always deliberately delete information counter to your personal anti-UFO POV and leave the debunking arguments basically unopposed. Why is it what a debunker says always represents a "proper source", but a PhD physicist like Maccabee does not?

What's funny about this is six different, mutually exclusive skeptical "explanations" are presented. How could all of them be correct? As usual, you claim to represent "science", but don't know the first thing about proper scientific debate, where rebutals to theories are made and ideas are thrashed out. In this case, with six differnt "explanations", it just begs for such rebuttals.

Over and over, "Science"Apologist you prove that you are nothing but a vandal with absolutely no interest in working with others or writing balanced articles. I'm going to write you up and try to get your editing privileges revoked. Dr Fil (talk) 02:31, 22 December 2007 (UTC)