The History of the Newspapers in the 19th Century

If there are a thousand sightings and 498 of them turn out to be hoaxes, then that makes the remaining four mysterious. That's one way of putting it. If you have 999 cases where it's a hoax, then that last case does seem very anomalous. And also, as we'll get into later, this is also just a time where newspapers weren't like super above lying if they thought it would sell newspapers. So, yeah,. not at all, not at all. The thing you just said about how there are thousands of sightings and, you know, people misidentifying planets... I think part of the explanation is what, how newspapers worked in those days. Yeah