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Easily one of my favorite Shermer talks.

"You can't miss it when I tell you where it is."

Were that the human mind be infallible! But alas, tis not so!

Discouting people lying for whatever reason, I actually understand how people who believe they saw something or that something happened, when the rest of us 'know' better. Sometimes really strange things happen and our minds cannot cope, or they lack all the appropriate data to identify something accurately, and our imagination kicks in. As much as scientists hate to admit it, there does appear to exist such a thing as ball lightning...and if a person sees a ball of lightning fly by their house, who am I to argue that it wasn't a UFO?

It is such events that can often lead us to the wrong conclusions, whether it be strange phenomonon or a bump to the head screwing up our brains temporarily.