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Just recently I was discussing with a friend how the late 80s and early 90s seemed to be the “highlight” of the UFO era. Mediocre camcorders and a lack of cell
by thinkingkong 7y ago
Just recently I was discussing with a friend how the late 80s and early 90s seemed to be the “highlight” of the UFO era. Mediocre camcorders and a lack of cell phones / instant conversation seemed to propel the type of curious conversation around aliens and other unexplained (in the moment) phenomenon. It seems like that conversation is totally gone. But I wonder if anything else has taken its place. Instead of UFOs are there other objects or phenomenon or experiences we seem to not be able to capture to prove false or true?
- sb057 7y agoI think some of it is surveillance related. I don't know how many times I've heard someone say, "I said something out loud, and an hour later I got an ad for it! My phone must be listening to me."
- Boebo 7y agoSo, i've talked with my dad about how i would need a credit to start-up some business if i would do it. We talked in a small garden, no wifi/pc there just my phone. Never searched online for a credit or whatever, nothing concrete it was just something that came up once in a conversation with my dad. Three days later i received a letter from my local banking center offering a personal talk about getting a credit to start-up businesses, handsigned. Never got such a letter before. Sure could be coincidence but im not quite sure there.
- Chris_Chambers 7y agoYour dad contacted the bank and told them to send you that.
- cgriswald 7y agoI had the reverse of that happen to me today. My iPhone gave me an ETA and suggested route for a place I hadn’t heard of. Three hours later I found myself there for an event after getting free tickets from a friend. Turned out my girlfriend had put the event on our shared calendar because she was interested in it which I suppose is where the suggestion came from.
- TaylorAlexander 7y agoYes but the real question is what got her interested in it.
- cgriswald 7y agoNot much of a mystery for me. It involved dogs.
- BurningFrog 7y agoThat has always happened. People have thought their prayers were answered, for example. I think it says something about human understanding of causality and our place in the world. Not technology.
- msbarnett 7y agoThat’s more a variant of the Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon (frequency illusion) than “surveillance”
- neonate 7y agoI thought the 1950s were by far the most intense UFO era.
- tabtab 7y agoNo, just the best/scariest sound-effects ;-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfCzxbxztj8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfCzxbxztj8