Ramblings of an Armchair Skeptic

As you know, UFO is an acronym for Unidentified Flying Object. This simply means that you don’t know what the thing in the sky is. The key words here being “don’t know”. This is when a lot of people fall for the ad ignorantium fallacy which is the argument from ignorance and simply put means that you don’t know what it is therefore you do know what it is. That’s when you say “I can’t identify the thing in the sky, so therefore it must be an alien spaceship.” Wrong. You don’t what it is so therefore you don’t know what it is. Get it? Good because I’m getting repetitive. It might be an alien spaceship but it could also be (and likely is) many other things. Planes, clouds, earthly lights, stars, balloons, satellites, birds, etc. Many sightings and pictures have simply been the work of industrious hoaxers. I want to talk about a recent hoax that took place in Morristown , New Jersey on January 5, 2009. Joe Ruddy and Chris Russo decided to conduct a little social experiment. They wanted