[galaxyLogic]

Reason to be skeptical:

For the last 10 years (?) or so most everybody has a mobile phone with high-quality camera in it and most people carry their phone with them all the time.

Shouldn't that mean that the quality and quantity of UFO evidence should have exploded since about 10-15 years ago? But I haven't seen any articles about how much more and how much better quality UFO evidence we have now that anybody whose sees a UFO can take a snapshot or video of it. Further when a group of people see a UFO, they could each take their own video of it taken with their different cameras.

If I saw a UFO I would certainly try to take a video of it.

[jjcon]

> most everybody has a mobile phone with high-quality camera in it and most people carry their phone with them all the time.

I feel like a small craft in the sky is hardly going to look good on even the best phone cameras. Ever try to take a photo of a plane. These cameras suck at anything past 2x zoom. The overall point though I think is sound, filmed incidence rates (even if still in crappy quality) should be plentiful and thus far I'm not aware of any footage that is remotely interesting (from amateurs at least)

[alrlroipsp]

Do this as an execerise:

Take your phone outside, find an airplane. Try to take a photo.

[grishka]

I did once. It turned out nice.

[barbazoo]

Could it be that phone cameras just aren't even remotely optimized for videos being taken in the dark. I'd imagine that's when most sightings happen.

[galaxyLogic]

Could be but I don't understand why UFOs would only show up at night? Is that what the existing evidence shows?

Or is it just that in the dark it is much harder to identify an object and therefore there are more un-identified objects at night?

[nprateem]

But there is video. It just looks crap or CGI because it's hand held, because who expects to see a UFO, and shot by amateurs.

[galaxyLogic]

There is video, there is evidence. I'm juts wondering why the evidence isn't accumulating many times faster now that everybody has a cell-phone and they have good cameras in them?

They are not the best possible equipment for taking pictures of UFOs, but surely they are much much better than what average person had with them 20 years ago. So that means in my calculation that the quality and quantity evidence should be much better now. So really my question is, is there any evidence that the evidence about UFOs is much better now that it was 20 years ago?