Three Simple Tests of Eyewitness Reliability

The main sources of our knowledge about UFOs are eyewitness reports. These are often treated, by believers and sceptics alike, as reliable accounts of something external that has actually happened. But how reliable are eyewitness reports (not to speak of human perception)? There are three ways to find out – in simple exercises that anyone can do, and without going into the specialist jargon of the psychologists (although there exists a large body of academic papers and investigations that confirm the simple things I am about to say here).