French National Assembly to host UAP seminar with true believers

[JMartJr]

So for fleeting scenarios, I'd agree that not actively thinking of capturing a photo/video could be understandable.

Yes, in any individual case. The weakness in the "you can't expect good pictures because people are surprised and need a moment to recover, think of their camera and pull it out" argument is that it has to work EVERY TIME.

A similar argument could be made for fireball meteors, plane crashes, homicides, etc. And while often such things happen with nobody taking a picture or video, SOMETIMES people react quickly, or have their camera out anyway, and we have examples of clear, definitive pictures/film/video of all of them.

The argument has been made, "Go out and take a video of the next low flying plane you see, you'll see how tricky it is" misses the point that however tricky it might be to grab a shot of a given unexpected plane buzzing you, we have LOTS of imagry of low flying planes -- that is clear, crisp, retailed and very obvious the sort of thing captured in the picture/video.

Numerous example here: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/rare-things-that-have-been-documented-much-better-than-ufos.13047/

 

[NoParty]

And just for the record,
the reason I have never gone public with news that there are 5 leprechauns living in my east walk-in closet,
is less that I fear being made fun of, for believing there are 5 leprechauns living in my east walk-in closet,
than that I truly have no good reason to believe there are any leprechauns living in my east walk-in closet.