Nobody has proven that ufos did not cause crop circles

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Identify the error in causal reasoning in the following example: Nobody has proven that UFOs did not cause crop circles.

Proof by absence of disproof

Appeal to anecdote

Overlooking statistical regression

Confusing conditional probabilities

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