UFOs make another stunning appearance on Surfline

They're baaaaaaack.

UFOs, or UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon) as the government has taken to calling them, have made another stunning appearance on Surfline’s Ventura Point camera. But you recall, days ago, when armchair astronomers across the surfing world were feted with not one, but two difficult-to-explain clips that the wave forecasting giant posted to its Instagram account.

The first, occurring at 4:30 am in Ventura when two almost comically UFO looking UFOs appeared, hovering with a slight tilt over the palms and lapping waves. They disappeared for a moment before being joined by a host of comically UFO looking UFOs. The second, from Newport Beach, doesn’t feature any specific UFO, merely a strange looking beam of light slowly combing the shoreline.

Well, and to be overtly cliche, they are back. The new footage was recorded by Bash Mendes and begins with an extremely fast light dot which then turns into two of those comically UFO looking UFOS. Mendes declaring, “Last night Dec 6 @ 6:10pm Surfline Ventura point cam, check it out. Their mission … To talk to Rob Machado about the new high performance model I’m riding. They said don’t worry we don’t want him back, we just want the boards and @ipdsurf new drop.”

The comments were a mix of disbelief, providing practical explanation, denying practical explanation and making jokes mostly about surfing aliens.

But do you imagine the suits at Surfline’s Huntington Beach headquarters are busily coding UFOline wherein the aforementioned armchair astronomers can log in during the witching hours and study the skies for unnatural oddities?

Would it be more popular than the daytime streaming of waves that convince surfers to not paddle out?

In any case, the UFO hype train has really taken off, of late, with films like The Age of Disclosure convincing there heretofore unbelievers that we are not alone in the universe.

Just to be rude, I hopped over to skeptic.com wherein cold-water-pourer Michael Shermer wrote:

When you don’t actually have concrete evidence that we can all see, your case depends on eyewitness accounts so you must establish that their words are trustworthy and reliable. For example, the intrepid UAP proponent Lue Elizando says:

“If you could be in my shoes and see what I’ve seen, there would be zero shadow of a doubt that these things are real and they are not made by humans.”

The problem is that we can’t be in anyone else’s shoes, so we depend on evidence that does not depend on a single eyewitness. “If only you could have been in my shoes that night when I saw Bigfoot—there would be zero shadow of a doubt….” In science, such anecdotes do not count as evidence; you need to be able to show actual physical evidence—in this case a body of a Bigfoot.

Continuing my biological analogy, in order to name a new species you have to present a type specimen—a holotype—that everyone can see, examine, photograph, analyze, etc. If you gave a talk at a biology conference about how you discovered a new species of bipedal primate, no one would take you seriously if you did not also present unmistakable evidence. If all you had were stories about what you saw, and maybe a couple of out-of-focus videos and grainy photographs, no one would believe you…and for good reason!

How droll.