I cannot understand why so much wishful thinking has been allowed to push the concept of proof aside. It doesn't help to advance TIGHAR's hypothesis.
Malcolm, I'm sorry I haven't had time to reply to the questions you've raised on various threads. They're good questions to which (I think) I have good answers. I just have way too much on my plate right now. I hope you'll come to the symposium in June.
I agree with you that this particular thread does not help advance the TIGHAR hypothesis. We try not to control what forum subscribers want to say as long as it's vaguely on-topic and civil and we make it clear that TIGHAR does not endorse this kind of camels-in-the-clouds magical thinking.
We've done some genuine forensic imaging analysis of interesting-looking objects that appear in underwater photos taken at Nikumaroro, but we've seen nothing so far that is worth getting excited about.