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I remember UFO sightings being super common before smartphones. Celebrities always talking about every once in a while, a maid when I was a kid swearing she cou
by whstl 2y ago
I remember UFO sightings being super common before smartphones. Celebrities always talking about every once in a while, a maid when I was a kid swearing she could see lights in the sky, etc.
I even remember some people in my small town getting together to talk about it.
(It seems aliens have wised up to the ubiquity of cameras, though!)
- freeduck 2y agoPeople need to stop looking at their screen all the time
- kjkjadksj 2y agoTry filming an airplane at night and be amazed at how shitty the footage of that is from your modern smartphone. Even during the day its a tall order without actual optical zoom and stabilization.
- whstl 2y agoThat's not really the point: point is those claims pretty much disappeared compared to the 90s and early 2000s. Maybe there's other factors at play, such as X-Files ending, or people getting more interested in flat earth.
- kjkjadksj 2y agoThere are claims all the time made, you just don’t rove over the parts of the internet where they would be posted.
- omoikane 2y ago> sightings being super common before smartphones https://xkcd.com/1235/ https://xkcd.com/1235/ > It seems aliens have wised up to the ubiquity of cameras, though https://xkcd.com/2572/ https://xkcd.com/2572/