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Old January 15th 08, 08:13 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting, rec.aviation.homebuilt,rec.aviation.rotorcraft
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On Jan 15, 12:43 pm, wrote:
But the Nigerian unit is hardly complex - got only a few feet of the
ground.


Really?

Do you *know* this?

No one on this list has seen the aircraft flying, nor a video of it
flying, nor a picture of it flying.

If a link to a legitimate new source can be found (not to a blog),
then it will at least be some evidence.


OK. Maybe you are right. Some of us will have to arrange a trip to
Nigeria to verify it. You go ahead, I can't afford it.

As it stands now, there is no evidence this is anything but a hoax.


So where is this evidence that it is a hoax?

Lets see this logic. If a report is from the western world it is
assumed true (innocent until proven guilty). If a report is from
Nigeria (and some other places) than it is assumed to be a hoax
(guilty, of anything we want to assume, until proven innocent).

I am not leaving out the possibility that it is inaccurate or a hoax
or whatever. But we got to give all a fair chance without jumping to
conclusions - even though notorious scams come from Nigeria.