...so I think what this is is that folks have some truck in being #VerySeriousPeople feel safer riding that fence, even when it really isn't required by the evidence. Fine. Just don't refer to that as critical thinking. Refer to it as covering your ass.
Again, and because folks really get stuck on this, none of this has anything to do with speculations wrt origins, #NHI or anything other than observation of unconventional flight dynamics of these objects. That case has arguably been made-