Just watched this, and an amusing thing jumped out at me.
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Close Encounters of the Third Kind
graham-167 — 9 years ago(September 24, 2016 10:55 AM)
Just watched this, and an amusing thing jumped out at me.
At the meeting with the government types, one of the skeptics makes the point that with all the cameras clicking all over the country, nobody has ever caught indisputable proof of a UFO - and he's countered by somebody that says we've never captured live shots of an aeroplane crash, either.
It's amusing because here we are in the modern world where something like 90% of the population walks around with at least one digital camera on them, with the built in ability to share their pictures worldwide within seconds of taking them. And because of things like that, we HAVE caught many plane crashes and put them out there for people to see - along with earthquakes, terrorist attacks, tsunamis, and just about every other event you could name.
And yet with all those millions of cameras still no indisputable UFO footage.
Have we quietly disproved the existence of UFOs once and for all?
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mashman1212-2 — 9 years ago(September 25, 2016 04:30 AM)
Interesting point, although I think a lot of ufo sightings happen at night. Even with all of us with our handheld devices ready to go at a moments notice, I don't think our phones would get a clear shot of anything in the night sky. I know that my iPhone can't do it. I live near an airport and a lot of low flying aircraft take off and land at all hours and I've tried to take night shots but none come out. Maybe the new iPhone 7 with its low light function can do the trick?
The daytime footage of ufos that you can find on YouTube is never of great quality either, I think mainly because whatever it is flying around is so darn far up. Same problem with our phones, they can only zoom so much. -
CromeRose — 9 years ago(October 21, 2016 02:50 PM)
And in fact there are photos and film of UFOs - check out the footage of mysterious lights over Cranbourne in Victoria Australia, or that footage of the bright flaring light over Culver City in California. I'm sure nowadays there's tons of stuff, but people dismiss it as pranks and such. Which is just what the aliens planned.
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Blueghost — 9 years ago(November 08, 2016 05:24 AM)
Yeah, at the time i was difficult to whip out a camera to capture an image because they were big bulky things that required film and a photo laboratory to process the film.
But now that's no longer an excuse, and the fraudsters who try to perpetuate BS like UFOs, bigfoot, and whatever, are no shown for the goddamn money grubbing thieves that they are.
But, strictly speaking, I think the first "UFO" images were said to be taken around the turn of the century, when snake oil salesmen were being put out of business by the Feds. They then turned to another form of fraud; aliens from outer space.
People who commit fraud are simply legal criminals. They'll lie about something else because they don't want to work for success and are jealous of what everyone else has.
Meaning they'll find something else to lie about.
