UFOs are real of course because U.F.O. stands for “unidentified flying object”. The casual viewer of the night sky doesn’t have complete knowledge of everything flying around overhead. Does our ignorance prove the existence of alien tourists from other galaxies? Hardly.
We live in a rather remote mountainous area in New Hampshire and still all kinds of things fly over head. We have nearly nightly flights of the DART which is the medical helicopter of the regional hospital. We have all kind of waterfowl in the air like ducks and geese. We airplanes. We have flashes of light from the International Space Station and satellites flying overhead. We have F35s flying training missions out of Burlington, Vermont. And lately we’ve had a drone buzzing overhead.
Luckily we posses a general knowledge, scientific education and awareness of aviation and have access to the Internet to explain just about anything the flies over the house.
According to an article in The Guardian, UFO sightings have been way down lately. Reality has been so strange how can little green men from Venus compete for attention?
And besides, it’s easy enough to check online for flights as air traffic is heavily monitored. If we can track a airplane flight across the country on our phone surely an alien space craft would be detected. And besides, just about every meteor and meteorite that falls to earth is captured on Ring Doorbell cameras, security cameras and dashboard cameras.
This month, the two major online sites for reporting UFOs – the National UFO Reporting Center and the Mutual UFO Network – both documented steep drops in worldwide sightings. The declines started around 2014, when reports were at a peak. They have since reduced drastically to 55% of that year’s combined total, many UFO interest groups have folded, and numerous previously classified government documents have been disclosed.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/21/what-is-behind-the-decline-in-ufo-sightings
Everyone is carrying a phone around. These days eyewitness accounts of being abducted by aliens for secret experiments and having ones private parts were probed on alien spaceships are hard to pull off. Gone are the days of grainy photographs of pie pans throw into the air. If it happened – where are your photos. If you saw it, surely hundreds of other cameras saw it too.
…Cultural historian Stuart Walton, “Belief in UFOs is definitely in a state of decline, along with much else that could be classed as paranormal. Part of the reason is that the technology for providing documentary evidence of such matters is now widely available to everybody with a smartphone, and such purported evidence as there is on YouTube looks extremely threadbare.”
The rise of UFO sightings coincides with the Cold War era and the Space Age when humans looked to the sky for both falling nuclear rockets as well as the possibility of reaching the stars. Aliens just happened to visit us just around the time were experimenting with space technology and secret military equipment?
Before the 1940s, reports of sightings of objects in the sky were extremely rare. Centuries of recorded history give no clear indication of any such activity. Then, at the predawn of the space-age, around the time of the Roswell conspiracy, UFO culture was born, giving rise to everything from Space Invaders to The X-Files.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/21/what-is-behind-the-decline-in-ufo-sightings
Ironically, the US Government is expected to release all of its information on UFO next month. Will this touch off some kind of rebirth in the belief in Alien Visitation? Hardly. True believers operate under the assumption that the evil government is keeping information about aliens from the general public. When the government opens up these files on weather balloons, experimental aircraft, drone development, swamp gas, homemade rockets and wayward air craft – UFO hunters are bound to be disappointed.
Joseph Baker, a sociology professor at Tennessee State University, says: “It’s actually better for UFOs when ufologists can claim that ‘the powers that be know everything and are hiding it from us’ rather than seeing that the government appears to have basically the same info about UFOs as the public: namely grainy, inconclusive visual evidence.”
Distrust in government fuels UFO conspiracy theories and the mistrusting public simply has moved on to other wild ideas like those of QAnon with pedophile rings operating in the basements of Washington, DC.
With police shootings, insurrections, the pandemic, and four years of a political party calling journalists “fake news” conspiracy theorists have simply looked for conspiracies here on Earth rather than from another planet.