Residents of a small town on the gulf coast of Florida reported numerous UFO sightings.Military personnel eventually disclosed that they had been running tests on a new missile over the open waters,which would account for the strange lights the local people were witnessing.Which critical thinking principle does this example best demonstrate?
A) Occam's Razor/parsimony
B) Extraordinary claims
C) Ruling out rival hypotheses
D) Falsifiability
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