Ketara wrote:You seem to have been very rational about the whole thing. I wonder if it would have been the same if everyone had been of your temperament.
Such behaviour is fully endorsed by the Fortean movement. You're as much trying to disprove as prove the existence of things.
I think it can be summed up with the famous quote from Sherlock Holmes...
Sherlock Holmes wrote:How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Generally, you note your observations, present the evidence which you feel eliminates explicable phenomena, and then post your findings publicly, where others better versed or equipped then disseminate.