There was little choice but to accept both as fact.

[And quick subject change.] I am finding it difficult to understand why the occurrences here are so easily accepted as... supernatural, for lack of a better term. Although I have grown accustomed to lapses of logical reasoning while serving aboard a Human ship, even one of my more irrational colleagues agrees that this behavior is peculiar.

I thought perhaps given the time you have spent here, you may have some insight.