The Field Investigator

Re-figuring the Solway Alien

The first, most rational solution set may not always be the right answer, but that’s usually what stick. Why do we prefer the easiest explanation, even knowing the explanation is wrong?

As a field investigator (FI,) I am quite aware of how challenging it is to explain features in photos and video. There is always a first impression. Your brain naturally goes to what it knows. The FI then must backwards engineer it and demonstrate to at least a 90 percent probability that this is so. One never is 100 percent sure. The moment you say that, well, the person will pull the rug and say ‘we hoaxed it! You’re a fraud.’ Most of the time, most field investigators get it right. Sometimes, they get it wrong. Sometimes they get it right for the wrong reasons. They never get it wrong for the right reasons. What, or who, is Solway?

I am Sparticus. I am Solway. Nuanced, subtle, flavor. Relish the abstraction.

I am really starting to like Simon, the science filmmaker formerly known as the Professor, Holland. No, I always liked him. He revisited Solway. For a couple reasons. A show titled Very Nearly Interesting claims to have debunked Solway, and threw Holland under the bus…