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You notice the interest in UFOs and stuff are at an all time low? Despite the unbelievable availability of cameras, we are not seeing any really good UFO photos or sightings. It is almost like if Aliens are there, they decided to do a big 'nope' and go elsewhere.
But I saw a video documenting this and it showed that in some way the decline has happened was that due to the past 20 years of severe government incompetence the idea that the government would be able to hide and manage something as big as alien visitations is no longer believable.
Actually I've never seen more UFO content online than in the past month. I think this is probably driven by the Artemis mission generating interest in space- I think people were consuming UFO content so algorithms started recommending to everyone. But in general I think 99.99% is a fabricated distraction.
It’s not so much a decline in discussion, more a decline in claimed sightings or reports. Used to be that someone would see something weird, something they couldn’t explain them selves, and then they’d go tell people about it, but their story would be patchy, low on details, and eventually someone would be like “must have been aliens!” when no one else had a good explanation.
But now people just take a high resolution video with a phone, they post it online, and someone who recognizes what’s going on immediately explains it, thus it doesn’t get noted as a UFO/UAP because it has been identified.
Thus there is a lot less “unidentified” things for people to default to assuming are aliens. Notably a lot of the things people like to point to these days are videos from thermal cameras taken at super long distances with details are poorly resolved, thus making it harder to “identify”.