Scientific skepticism is necessary, and claims of extraordinary sightings require extraordinary evidence and rigorous verification.

“yeah it's healthy skepticism especially if a claim is extraordinary that's put on the table”

Scientific inquiry requires healthy skepticism and the systematic collection of multi-wavelength data to verify and understand phenomena.

“in our field Paul we uh we're not satisfied with just one wavelength band when we're studying an object in the sky if I find something really interesting with my telescope and it's really really interesting people will pull all stops and pull out all the big guns”