The trend of UFO sightings follows revolutions in photography. There’s been spikes in the amount of them when cameras became widespread and photos were easier to develop, when cameras became digital, when photo-manipulation software came about, and this next one will be because machine learning-based video generation is becoming increasingly sophisticated.

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    14 hours ago

    I always heard that UFO sightings dropped drastically once cell phones became widespread.

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      14 hours ago

      Yes. OP is making stuff up. As cameras became better we started getting less and less sightings for UFO, Bigfoot, Lockness, ect.

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      Aside from that one time the Goodyear blimp in NJ took a 5 month break in 2020 and then showed up to the first Giants game and then people filmed the UFO.

      NJ also had a mass panic last year with “drones”. Absolutely a UFO rash by real definitions, not the UFO=alien version. Those people went outside at night and saw distant planes landing for the first time. There’s what, 4 major airports that put descent over the state? I’m sure there were some drones (something about [training for?] lost radioactive material) but it was definitely less than what was reported. Cell phone video was an awful option for aircraft at night but everywhere.

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        The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had approved the drones for research and many also belonged to people in the area, President Donald Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at her first White House briefing on Tuesday.