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To be fair I’ve got a fairly nice DSLR but without a $3000 chunk of glass in front of it, everything looks like a blurry mess at any distance which a UFO may be involved. I don’t own a $3000 chunk of glass.

UFOs are certainly real but they probably aren’t extraterrestrial if you consider Occam’s razor.

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There have been a lot of reports of UFOs at supersonic speeds with the ability to stop on a dime. One explanation is aliens and one is a conspiracy that the US government has had access to a warp drive for decades. I don’t think Occam’s razor applies in this circumstance since both seem very fanciful.

Occam's razor works fine if you add another hypothesis that the accounts aren't entirely accurate.

Actually, sounds more like Occam’s Razor is being misapplied here.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/occams-r...

Even expensive lenses can’t fix the atmosphere itself on a humid day

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