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That's what they used to say about rocks falling from the sky. Right up until 1803. https://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/L/L_Aigle.html https://www.davidd

That's what they used to say about rocks falling from the sky. Right up until 1803. https://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/L/L_Aigle.html https://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/L/L_Aigle.html "Ernst Florens Chladni, was the first to publish (in 1794) the idea that meteorites might be rocks that originated not from Earth, but from space....The scientific community of the time responded with resistance and mockery." - Wikipedia

nabla9 6y ago
None of that is relevant today. Cameras are everywhere. External cameras, GoPros in cockpits. Ball lightning stories disappeared with mobile phones. Ufo stories are also disappearing. It's less and less likely that everybody just happens to miss opportunity of taking pictures.
- GoblinSlayer 6y ago
  Cars disappeared for smartphone users too: https://www.amongtech.com/car-accidents-caused-by-smartphone-use-has-doubled/ https://www.amongtech.com/car-accidents-caused-by-smartphone...
- derangedHorse 6y ago
  Not really. I don't even have a camera on my car and most of the people I know don't either. Even with the accessibility of cameras it's hard to capture events that take place in a small time interval. That's why when someone sees something momentarily spectacular (like seeing a person throw a basketball into the hoop from behind their back at half court) they say things like "I wish I caught that on camera"
- koonsolo 6y ago
  Camera's are definitely everywhere. Recently a meteorite struck Belgium. Lot's of videos and around 200 people testified of seeing it. The difference can be lots of things of course: densely populated, maybe seen from further away etc. But it's indeed peculiar that now in the smartphone age, we hardly see any UFO's on video, relative to how many camera's there are. https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20210124_98361639 https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20210124_98361639

nabla9 6y ago

None of that is relevant today. Cameras are everywhere. External cameras, GoPros in cockpits. Ball lightning stories disappeared with mobile phones. Ufo stories are also disappearing. It's less and less likely that everybody just happens to miss opportunity of taking pictures.

GoblinSlayer 6y ago
Cars disappeared for smartphone users too: https://www.amongtech.com/car-accidents-caused-by-smartphone-use-has-doubled/ https://www.amongtech.com/car-accidents-caused-by-smartphone...
derangedHorse 6y ago
Not really. I don't even have a camera on my car and most of the people I know don't either. Even with the accessibility of cameras it's hard to capture events that take place in a small time interval. That's why when someone sees something momentarily spectacular (like seeing a person throw a basketball into the hoop from behind their back at half court) they say things like "I wish I caught that on camera"
koonsolo 6y ago
Camera's are definitely everywhere. Recently a meteorite struck Belgium. Lot's of videos and around 200 people testified of seeing it. The difference can be lots of things of course: densely populated, maybe seen from further away etc. But it's indeed peculiar that now in the smartphone age, we hardly see any UFO's on video, relative to how many camera's there are. https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20210124_98361639 https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20210124_98361639