These aliens are actually just baby owls

I suppose we can't find agreement in this case. I find it difficult to believe that someone could shoot at a pair of nesting owls peering in their windows for two hours and come away believing they'd seen a squad sized detachment of alien beings with arms.

(And I'm a former Marine, and worked as a bouncer and a bartender at different times many years ago. I mention that only to demonstrate that I'm pretty familiar with how people wig out in scary low information situations, and I've observed a lot of drunk people in all three positions. That experience is part of why I doubt that owls are a good explanation.)

Note that I'm not saying it must be some weird thing or other. I just don't think owls make sense as an explanation. I'd be more willing to say they saw nothing and shot at nothing for a couple hours after spooking themselves; I view that as more likely than owls peering in windows while being shot at.

Unfortunately, since this is us conjecturing about the likelihood of other peoples' states of mind, I am not sure how we can meet halfway. I don't know how we could convince each other that one state of mind is more probable than the other (given that we agree on what requires explanation).

Tangentially, I'm not even sure why this is usually described as related to aliens, to be honest. Doesn't that strike you as weird, as well? Nothing about it seems to indicate that it should be interpreted that way, even if it was all true.

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