Why do you REFUSE to list the supporting documentation that demonstrates HOW you employ these FACTORS in assessing UFO reports for reliability? Anybody can google a bunch of books and list them. I am asking you to give us relevant quotes that support your claim that you can do assess these reports properly (i.e. objectively without bias). Feel free to present your case to demonstrate that you are not simply making this up. Your REFUSAL to do so implies this is not an objective measurement but a subjective measurement that is influenced by your own personal bias/beliefs.
Additionally, choosing Rogue River and Campeche is cherry picking. Try working with raw cases that you are not biased towards and are not sure if they are good UFO reports or not. Additionally, you are not influenced by other UFOlogists and their opinions. That is where you can prove that your methodology works or doesn't work.
I have of course explained all that, providing detailed examples and indicating reference sources. That you simply ignore those explanations and sources to simply repeat (over and over like a mantra) your original unfounded assertions does not surprise me in the least.
Then, at your request, I included the following case (that I have not presented before) and described (again at your request) how a principle of perception has been utilised in that case (thinking perhaps you might even have been pleased that it was used by a debunker to form the basis of his own argument against the case) and all you have to say is:
Big snip of the usual repeats
Tremonton, Utah, UFO Colour Film (02 July 1952)
(http://www.nicap.org/utahdir.htm)
Video including the 1950 Montana film
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9kwsvnmwks&feature=channel_page)
I’ve heard of ignoring the evidence, but you have taken the cake!
That was “defy mundane explanation” R.A.F. – I do see though why you might be in some difficulty over all of this if you cannot quote your sources accurately…Well that's a "safe" claim...unknowns always "defy explanation"....so what.
Of course you should have recognised also that the cases I have been presenting “defy plausible mundane explanation” – for it is the case that the UFO debunkers do “explain” those cases implausibly – for example blimp at Rogue River, hoax at Delphos, etc.
Anyone can come up with an explanation (thus falsifying your “so what” statement) – but what counts is whether or not that explanation is a plausible explanation. If no plausible mundane explanation can be found, then we are legitimately entitled to look for (speculate, hypothesise) other plausible explanations – such as ET for example.
What makes ET plausible? Nothing in our knowledge of the natural or technological world rules it out. There are the reliable observations of ostensible “nuts and bolts” craft, intelligent control and associated beings – and there is the is the multiple eyewitness testimony as well as radar, film, photographic and physical trace evidence. So in the absence of plausible mundane explanations, we can legitimately turn to plausible alternate explanations.