Rare things that have been documented much better than UFOs

[yoshy]

I've seen the UAP live in daylight; I have no doubt in my heart...
These ultra-advanced (shape-shifting) machines exist.
And when it finally happens, you usually have very little time to react.
You probably just choose to watch so you don't miss anything !!

And who walks around with expensive camera equipment 24/7, ready to photograph or film a UFO sighting?
It always happens when you least expect it.
But it happens...

Welcome to the forum! This forum invites people to share their experiences, but you just have to find the thread for that or start a new one. And don't take skepticism as an insult. That's just the default here . I think UFOs and Aliens (the sub forum where this thread is) is the right place to make a new post if you like

 

[Fin]

And who walks around with expensive camera equipment 24/7, ready to photograph or film a UFO sighting?

Billions of people carry smartphones with them that can take high-resolution photographs and video, with sophisticated autofocus, image stabilisation, low-light capabilities and, on some models, powerful zoom.

Compared with the consumer photography equipment available in the 1990s when I was a kid, modern smartphones are astonishingly capable and would easily compete with some of the more expensive camera equipment a relatively small number of people could afford & carry around with them even just 20 years ago.

But to more directly answer your question: Today, many millions of people have expensive smartphones with excellent cameras which would put even seriously expensive 90's cameras to shame. They are more "ready" than in previous decades where you'd need to take the time to attach your telephoto lens, tripod etc. We've been more ready and well equipped than ever, but still nobody's ever got a good photo of an unambiguous UFO.

Then we have "Skywatcher" who had seriously expensive equipment, AND tripods, and even psionic summoners! And STILL all we got was blurry videos of distant birds and balloons

 

[GM4AJK]

They are more "ready" than in previous decades

And to add to this, I've seen many videos of "startling events" on the internet that not only capture the "startling event" but often show multiple other people filming the same "startling event" in the foreground.

And STILL all we got was blurry videos of distant birds and balloons

... and satellites, mostly Starlink these days, but the ISS still pops up decades after it was launched.

 

[Fritzkquzerk]

Regarding "disclosure" and the PURSUE project: I was a bit skeptical on the whole "scraping the bottom of the barrel" hypothesis, but the last tranche of UAP documents are all text and renderings, no videos, no photos, nothing.
Of course we can't completely be certain but, scraping the bottom of the barrel much?

 

[Todd Feinman]

Regarding "disclosure" and the PURSUE project: I was a bit skeptical on the whole "scraping the bottom of the barrel" hypothesis, but the last tranche of UAP documents are all text and renderings, no videos, no photos, nothing.
Of course we can't completely be certain but, scraping the bottom of the barrel much?

I never thought they would release anything of substance; why would they?

 

[JJB]

I never thought they would release anything of substance; why would they?

I never believed for a second that there was anything to disclose in the first place, at least not anything involving extraterrestrials. There are certainly things worth disclosing and talking about military sightings, sensor data and national security, but that's a long way from evidence of alien visitation.

 

[Todd Feinman]

I never believed for a second that there was anything to disclose in the first place, at least not anything involving extraterrestrials. There are certainly things worth disclosing and talking about military sightings, sensor data and national security, but that's a long way from evidence of alien visitation.

Imagine if there was something something to disclose, and there were high resolution images and sensor data that would prove it, and it was far more advanced than anything we knew of and was not a visionary or fictitious phenomenon that they had been keeping secret to study. Would they suddenly do a 180° and release everything because it was the ethical thing to do? Epstein?
Anyway, there's this bridge, in Brooklyn, I'd like to tell you something special about…

 

[Fritzkquzerk]

I never thought they were gonna release 4K videos of detailed flying saucers.
I just thought they wouldn't end up without any videos even before the 10th release.

 

[JJB]

Imagine if there was something something to disclose, and there were high resolution images and sensor data that would prove it, and it was far more advanced than anything we knew of and was not a visionary or fictitious phenomenon that they had been keeping secret to study. Would they suddenly do a 180° and release everything because it was the ethical thing to do? Epstein?
Anyway, there's this bridge, in Brooklyn, I'd like to tell you something special about…

The problem with this argument is that it assumes the very thing it needs to establish: that the government possesses high-resolution images and sensor data proving extraterrestrial technology exists. Where is that evidence?

Everyone can construct an elaborate hypothetical about what the government might hide if aliens were real, but that doesn't demonstrate that such evidence exists in the first place. Epstein has nothing to do with it, either. Government secrecy and institutional misconduct are real, but they don't establish an extraterrestrial cover-up.

And the bridge punchline is amusing, but implying that anyone who disagrees with you is gullible isn't evidence. Show me the data, not another hypothetical about what the data might reveal.

 

[Mauro]

Everyone can construct an elaborate hypothetical about what the government might hide if aliens were real, but that doesn't demonstrate that such evidence exists in the first place.

J. K. Rowling did exactly that (in the Harry Potter world, with wizards of course, not aliens).

 

[JMartJr]

Everyone can construct an elaborate hypothetical about what the government might hide if aliens were real, but that doesn't demonstrate that such evidence exists in the first place. Epstein has nothing to do with it, either. Government secrecy and institutional misconduct are real, but they don't establish an extraterrestrial cover-up.

Bear in mind, too, that EVERY government would have to also be hiding all THEIR proof (or good evidence,) as would every non-governmental group that ever came across any. "Epstein files" is not a relevant to point fir most of those, nor any other individual or organizationally specific motive or excuse.