> In fact, if it wasn't published in a respectable journal, it's tough to take it seriously. This is a logical fallacy. We agree that peer review journals app

> In fact, if it wasn't published in a respectable journal, it's tough to take it seriously. This is a logical fallacy. We agree that peer review journals apply a peer review filter on published articles that guaranties (in general) the scientific quality of the published articles. You deduce from that that articles not published by peer review journals are crack-pottery. This is of course untrue. The scientific quality of articles that didn't went true the peer review filter is a priori UNKNOWN. > Especially when it's coming from a guy who's talking about UFOs and miracles in "scientific" context. So you judge the scientific quality of an article by its subject and not it's content ? You didn't even considered what he wrote about these subjects ? Let me explain you. His article on the miracle of the sun report a study of the Fatima event where many witnesses reported seen strange effect of the sun (change in color intensity and rotation) as well as ambient color changes like everything turning violet or else. A big crowd reported these observations and this was carefully collected. Prof.Meessen's interest to this case came from his study of UFOs. He was not the first who considered and explored the possibility that the Fatima event was due to a UFO. As a physicist he considered the possibility that ambient color changes could result from refraction effects like we see with a prism. The initial hypothesis was that this refraction could have been induced by EM field surrounding UFOs in a particular way. To make a long story short, his conclusion is that this idea is wrong and what people experienced was visual effects resulting from starring too long at the sun. He found an old articles documenting this effect and he also tested it himself at the risk to turn blind. He then investigated the other aspect of the Fatima event reporting the viewing of the Holly Mother. I mean he investigated as a true scientist. He discovered to his surprise that such events are very frequent. Most are not well known. Some even occurred close to where he live, so he could talk to the Priest who had access to the info. He concluded that these are very likely rooted in psychologically induced effects. Sorry but the only crack-pottery I see around here is your reasoning.