[retrocryptid]

Some of the UAPs/UFOs I saw in the Navy footage looked like internal reflections or lens flare to me. There was some context given about airspeed, turn rate, etc. that made that plausible.

But not all of them seemed consistent, so maybe there are LGMs out there.

As a physics student the axiomatic assertion that the universe is rational, observable and repeatable was hammered into my head. Maybe it's not. If the universe has some bits that aren't repeatable, it's interesting, but it's not physics. So who knows?

Perhaps it's just Pere Ubu playing a joke on us all.

But it is interesting that as soon as everyone was carrying cameras around in their pockets, the number of UFO and Cryptid sightings went waaaay down. I kind of miss Nessie, Sasquatch and the Little Green Men. Fie on you, mobile phones vendors, for making a world where camera-shy Fay and ABCs and aliens no longer show themselves to tripping teens and long-haul truckers on lonely stretches of I-80 under the inky black sky.

[markus_zhang]

I'd argue that consumer electronics makes people stay at home or look down so they don't actually look at the sky very often. Of course this is a stretched answer but I miss a lot about my X-Files days. Back then I had the wild dream of working as an UFO hunter/researcher.

Hopefully I can inject some fire into my son's heart. It's a good topic worth wasting a whole life on it, as long as one pursues it scientifically.

[retrocryptid]

Indeed. As Jose Chung taught us, the truth is out there but we wouldn't recognize it if it crawled up our pant-leg and bit us on the ass. (Not that the truth frequently takes the form of something that can crawl up our collective pant legs and bite us anywhere, much less the ass.)

[markus_zhang]

Thanks. My fav episode, and "although we may not be alone in the universe, in our separate ways on this planet, we are all alone." rings true forever for me.