"...confirmed by independent observation."

I know....and that, to me, makes it "more unexplained" and interesting. The myriad of questions that can be asked are why I remain a skeptic... Has this person done anything like this before or since? If not..why not? Why a sneaker 'out there' and not a broken light bulb in the closet?

When we can have replicable instances, we can begin to sort things out.

"Go figger"... I went... I figgered... I wonder...I wait....

The phrase I prefer is "...if I can find some way in which it COULD be flawed, it needs more investigation."

It remains the case that the type of assumptions I would have to make about the very nature of reality in order to accept these concepts are way beyond what I can manage.