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It's probably a logical fallacy of some kind on my part, but does it seem to anyone else that stories about UFO's are recently becoming more common in the mains

It's probably a logical fallacy of some kind on my part, but does it seem to anyone else that stories about UFO's are recently becoming more common in the mainstream media?

aoeusnth1 7y ago
I'm also noticing this.
ericmcer 7y ago
I listened to a podcast interview with Dan Aykroyd recently and he talked about the exact same thing. He is convinced they are doing soft preparation to begin unveiling extraterrestrial life to us. Dan Aykroyd is definitely not a legitimate source haha, but he is someone who is very ear to the ground on this stuff, and you are not alone in noticing a recent uptick in sightings , news, leaks, etc. about UFOs.
- adrianN 7y ago
  It would be quite the movie plot if extraterrestrial life were revealed right when the humanity needs to work together in a massive push to avoid the climate catastrophe.
  - krapp 7y ago
    That would basically just be "Day the Earth Stood Still," but with an environmental, rather than anti-war message. And it's too late to avoid the climate catastrophe anyway, so the only reason aliens would actually show up is for the free real estate after humanity completes its self-fumigation.
    - imtringued 7y ago
      It's never too late. We are just one World War 3 away from the solution...
      - krapp 7y ago
        Humanity could bomb itself back to being just a single stone age tribe tomorrow and it likely wouldn't reverse the course of climate change. The avalanche has begun, it's too late now for the pebbles to vote.
        AnimalMuppet 7y ago
        Nuclear winter? That could reverse the course of climate change, and then some. (It's not a good answer to the climate problem...)
- hakdbha 7y ago
  I don’t believe it’s anything that extraordinary. It’s just the news with their algorithms catering to the public’s whims, and the public just happens to be momentarily more interested in spooky UFO stuff than usual.
nullwasamistake 7y ago
I have noticed this as well. The US govt is trying to send a message by declassifying this stuff, it's just hard to infer what that is. Maybe it's to let foreign adversaries "know that we know" that they're watching us. Maybe deflecting something deeper about these craft, my guess is that they're nuclear powered. Or, it could be real. Maybe ET is watching us. I find this the least likely explanation though
- tenfivewest 7y ago
  I think most likely the government’s not involved. They’re just individuals being scammed by unscrupulous people. There are certainly counter intelligence aspects and perhaps secret testing of technology but neither are primary to the claims of ‘disclosure’.
virgulino 7y ago
And stories about flat earth.
krapp 7y ago
That's been the case at least since the X-Files was on the air. Also remember that little of what gets posted to HN counts as sources within the "mainstream media."
kuzehanka 7y ago
Yes, but not UFOs as in aliens. UFOs as in there's a ton of unidentified aircraft in any given airspace that no one is claiming responsibility for. This is happening because the US Navy recently released a bunch of UFO info to the public and admitted that UFO encounters are a pretty frequent occurrence for Navy pilots (again, not in the aliens sense).
- dTal 7y ago
  Bearing in mind that this is the same Navy that apparently has such difficulty seeing other ships that they ram into them on a regular basis. There is such an institutional culture of sleep deprivation that it's not really surprising they have a high incident rate for this sort of thing.
  - kuzehanka 7y ago
    I don't understand what you're getting at. They have a large number of recorded UFO incidents with captured evidence, usually from the aircraft instrumentation itself. If you're trying to imply they're imagining it due to sleep deprivation, that's a bit crass. We're talking about stuff like this: https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000005607812/look-at-that-thing-us-navy-jet-encounters-unknown-object.html https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000005607812/look-at-tha... Could be a falling piece of debris, could be evil space aliens, they don't know what it is - hence UFO.
    - dTal 7y ago
      Not imagining it, as such. There are many odd optical phenomena when flying in the sky - specular reflections may present as moving objects, and small close objects can easily be mistaken for large distant ones. It takes some measure of critical thinking to identify these things at the time, and it's not always possible to reconstruct what they were afterwards. Sleep deprivation will sap this critical thinking ability. Lest you think I'm being unfair, consider your link; that's clearly dirt in the lens. The clue? The camera wobbles at the precise instant the "object" rotates, on several occasions. What you're seeing is a gimbaled camera with software auto-leveling; the camera rotates, and the dirt with it. You see a similar phenomenon in other UFO videos that seem to show the UFO "suddenly accelerating" at the end - the camera gimbal reaches the end of its travel, and the object is yanked out of shot. The Navy has the resources to check for dirt on a lens before they release a video like this. I maintain that the quantity of UFO videos coming out of the Navy tells us more about the Navy than about UFOs.

It's probably a logical fallacy of some kind on my part, but does it seem to anyone else that stories about UFO's are recently becoming more common in the mainstream media?

aoeusnth1 7y ago

I'm also noticing this.

ericmcer 7y ago

I listened to a podcast interview with Dan Aykroyd recently and he talked about the exact same thing. He is convinced they are doing soft preparation to begin unveiling extraterrestrial life to us. Dan Aykroyd is definitely not a legitimate source haha, but he is someone who is very ear to the ground on this stuff, and you are not alone in noticing a recent uptick in sightings , news, leaks, etc. about UFOs.

adrianN 7y ago
It would be quite the movie plot if extraterrestrial life were revealed right when the humanity needs to work together in a massive push to avoid the climate catastrophe.
- krapp 7y ago
  That would basically just be "Day the Earth Stood Still," but with an environmental, rather than anti-war message. And it's too late to avoid the climate catastrophe anyway, so the only reason aliens would actually show up is for the free real estate after humanity completes its self-fumigation.
  - imtringued 7y ago
    It's never too late. We are just one World War 3 away from the solution...
    - krapp 7y ago
      Humanity could bomb itself back to being just a single stone age tribe tomorrow and it likely wouldn't reverse the course of climate change. The avalanche has begun, it's too late now for the pebbles to vote.
      - AnimalMuppet 7y ago
        Nuclear winter? That could reverse the course of climate change, and then some. (It's not a good answer to the climate problem...)
hakdbha 7y ago
I don’t believe it’s anything that extraordinary. It’s just the news with their algorithms catering to the public’s whims, and the public just happens to be momentarily more interested in spooky UFO stuff than usual.

nullwasamistake 7y ago

I have noticed this as well. The US govt is trying to send a message by declassifying this stuff, it's just hard to infer what that is. Maybe it's to let foreign adversaries "know that we know" that they're watching us. Maybe deflecting something deeper about these craft, my guess is that they're nuclear powered. Or, it could be real. Maybe ET is watching us. I find this the least likely explanation though

tenfivewest 7y ago
I think most likely the government’s not involved. They’re just individuals being scammed by unscrupulous people. There are certainly counter intelligence aspects and perhaps secret testing of technology but neither are primary to the claims of ‘disclosure’.

virgulino 7y ago

And stories about flat earth.

krapp 7y ago

That's been the case at least since the X-Files was on the air. Also remember that little of what gets posted to HN counts as sources within the "mainstream media."

kuzehanka 7y ago

Yes, but not UFOs as in aliens. UFOs as in there's a ton of unidentified aircraft in any given airspace that no one is claiming responsibility for. This is happening because the US Navy recently released a bunch of UFO info to the public and admitted that UFO encounters are a pretty frequent occurrence for Navy pilots (again, not in the aliens sense).

dTal 7y ago
Bearing in mind that this is the same Navy that apparently has such difficulty seeing other ships that they ram into them on a regular basis. There is such an institutional culture of sleep deprivation that it's not really surprising they have a high incident rate for this sort of thing.
- kuzehanka 7y ago
  I don't understand what you're getting at. They have a large number of recorded UFO incidents with captured evidence, usually from the aircraft instrumentation itself. If you're trying to imply they're imagining it due to sleep deprivation, that's a bit crass. We're talking about stuff like this: https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000005607812/look-at-that-thing-us-navy-jet-encounters-unknown-object.html https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000005607812/look-at-tha... Could be a falling piece of debris, could be evil space aliens, they don't know what it is - hence UFO.
  - dTal 7y ago
    Not imagining it, as such. There are many odd optical phenomena when flying in the sky - specular reflections may present as moving objects, and small close objects can easily be mistaken for large distant ones. It takes some measure of critical thinking to identify these things at the time, and it's not always possible to reconstruct what they were afterwards. Sleep deprivation will sap this critical thinking ability. Lest you think I'm being unfair, consider your link; that's clearly dirt in the lens. The clue? The camera wobbles at the precise instant the "object" rotates, on several occasions. What you're seeing is a gimbaled camera with software auto-leveling; the camera rotates, and the dirt with it. You see a similar phenomenon in other UFO videos that seem to show the UFO "suddenly accelerating" at the end - the camera gimbal reaches the end of its travel, and the object is yanked out of shot. The Navy has the resources to check for dirt on a lens before they release a video like this. I maintain that the quantity of UFO videos coming out of the Navy tells us more about the Navy than about UFOs.