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From: John Rimmer <jrimmer@magonia.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 20:58:59 +0100
Fwd Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 22:10:22 -0400
Subject: Re: Sheffield UFO Incident 2?


 >From: Pat McCartney <ElPatricio@aol.com>
 >Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 13:01:17 EDT
 >Subject: Re: Sheffield UFO Incident 2?
 >To: updates@globalserve.net

 >Andy's comments appear to miss the mark completely.
 >What Stan is clearly referring to is the testimony of witnesses
 >in a court trial. And witnesses in a court trial are directly
 >comparable to witnesses of a UFO sighting. In that sense,
 >the tools used to evaluate a trial witness' credibility can also
 >be used to evaluate whether a UFO witness is a trained
 >observer, has good character and is in possession
 >of his or her faculties.

Witnesses in a court trial are usually dealing with events we
know can happen. Houses do get burgled. People do get murdered.
Fraudsters do rob unsuspecting marks. The evidence sought here
is to determine how plausible it is that a particular individual
commited any of these acts. However a case in which I claimed
that you teleported yourself into my house in the middle of the
night and stole my video recorder might not be so
straightforward. If I produced someone who saw you actually
disappearing through the house wall and appearing a few moments
later with the said video in your hand, that wirness might just
get as tough a ride as abductee witnesses get from the sceptics.

Actually, that witness would probably get a much tougher
grilling than the average abductee, as lawyers are not as polite
as UFO investigators, even the hard-line sceptics.

So let's stop having these silly comparisons about court
evidence relating to criminal acts which everyone knows do
happen in real life, and abduction events which - to put it
politely - are far more contentious!

--
John Rimmer
Magonia Magazine
www.magonia.demon.co.uk