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> I can think of a few truly mass sightings All of which occured before the advent of ubiquitous hand-held cameras, security camera footage, and dash-cams. Can

> I can think of a few truly mass sightings All of which occured before the advent of ubiquitous hand-held cameras, security camera footage, and dash-cams. Can't help but feel had these been captured we'd have found simple explanations for each, and people's memories of them would be less malleable. Re the naval sightings, the article you've linked to says "experts emphasize that earthly explanations can generally be found for such incidents". Most interestingly, the captioned video: "That footage, published previously but with little context, shows an object tilting like a spinning top moving against the wind. A pilot refers to a fleet of objects, but no imagery of a fleet was released." A kernel of truth + some imagination.

soco 6y ago
Apparently as soon as we mass produced portable camera devices, the aliens ran away...
- peteretep 6y ago
  Ghosts too
- BuildTheRobots 6y ago
  Lack of digital footage doesn't seem incongruous. If we accept that aliens are capable of travelling vast distances to be able to visit the planet then they're capable of technology significantly advanced from where Humanity currently is. With 'magic' levels of technology, the ability to disrupt a CCD sensor doesn't seem beyond the pale. (I don't think I actually believe aliens are here and walking amongst us, but I'm not sure I can see a lack of evidence as being evidence of them not being here either).
  - krapp 6y ago
    It would be ironic if the aliens were here all along but were using cloaking devices, and the UFOs people were seeing really were swamp gas, Venus, etc.
  - soco 6y ago
    And they gave the same technology to Nessie, Bigfoot and everybody else.
  - cabite 6y ago
    And the fact many people say a UFO just "dematerialized" or "fade out"?
cabite 6y ago
The Nimitz or Tic-Tac incident the Navy has communicated about. One of these involved multiple pilots in several waves during several minutes/hours and was recorded by a system that integrates various data sources from multiple ships and aircrafts.

soco 6y ago

Apparently as soon as we mass produced portable camera devices, the aliens ran away...

peteretep 6y ago
Ghosts too
BuildTheRobots 6y ago
Lack of digital footage doesn't seem incongruous. If we accept that aliens are capable of travelling vast distances to be able to visit the planet then they're capable of technology significantly advanced from where Humanity currently is. With 'magic' levels of technology, the ability to disrupt a CCD sensor doesn't seem beyond the pale. (I don't think I actually believe aliens are here and walking amongst us, but I'm not sure I can see a lack of evidence as being evidence of them not being here either).
- krapp 6y ago
  It would be ironic if the aliens were here all along but were using cloaking devices, and the UFOs people were seeing really were swamp gas, Venus, etc.
- soco 6y ago
  And they gave the same technology to Nessie, Bigfoot and everybody else.
- cabite 6y ago
  And the fact many people say a UFO just "dematerialized" or "fade out"?

cabite 6y ago

The Nimitz or Tic-Tac incident the Navy has communicated about. One of these involved multiple pilots in several waves during several minutes/hours and was recorded by a system that integrates various data sources from multiple ships and aircrafts.