witnesses 50 Years later - Melbourne Westall UFO encounter

Cheerful Spring2

Love these kind of videos when witnesses reappear and tell their story. It alleged over 100 people witnessed UFOs low to the ground in the 60s in a town in Australia.

Reminds of famous case from South Africa dozens of young children saw a UFO land and then in later adult life they got together in new documentry again and told the same story.

Dohnjoe

Indeed, but note that now everyone essentially has hand-held video cameras these events never seem to happen.

Interesting piece here on mass hysteria/delusions
https://theness.com/index.php/two-mass-delusions-in-new-england/

Between December 1909 and January 1910, a remarkable delusion swept like wildfire across the New England seaboard region, as many people became convinced that a local businessman had invented the world’s first practical heavier-than-air flying machine. This long-anticipated occurrence was viewed as an event that would revolutionize aviation. While large portions of entire states temporarily believed the rumors, tens of thousands of stolid, responsible citizens actually reported sighting the vessel in the night-time sky. The rumors and subsequent sightings triggered an extensive search to uncover the vessel’s whereabouts. No abandoned farmhouse or local eccentric escaped inquiry from the determined army of inquisitive reporters. Journalists from across the United States and as far away as Europe, soon converged on Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts, where the majority of observations were reported. At the height of the episode, even representatives of foreign governments arrived in order to assess the potential commercial and military applications of such a vessel.

gerrybbadd

Dohnjoe wrote: »

Indeed, but note that now everyone essentially has hand-held video cameras these events never seem to happen.

Interesting piece here on mass hysteria/delusions
https://theness.com/index.php/two-mass-delusions-in-new-england/

There's plenty of handheld footage out there. Just it isn't very good.

To give an example - have you ever tried taking a photo or video of the moon with the camera on your phone? It never comes out right, and the moon is often a lot bigger in the sky than "UFOs" would appear to be.

Cheerful Spring2

Dohnjoe wrote: »

Indeed, but note that now everyone essentially has hand-held video cameras these events never seem to happen.

Interesting piece here on mass hysteria/delusions
https://theness.com/index.php/two-mass-delusions-in-new-england/

Genuine sightings are rare. They don't happen everyday where people see actual objects in the sky flying around. There lot of people on Youtube who get excited by seeing a light in the sky they can't identify. There dozens of videos like this and clear it not a solid object that can fly.. There is definately people who are easy fooled by what they see in the sky and what to believe.

US military and Navy are seeing these objects now and reporting them. We know there something there but we not sure who flying them. Pilots are just saying we don't have anything like it. Commander Fravor who lead many air missions over Iraq spotted one of the objects eyes on and said it was a silver object with no engine and no windows. If humans have build this somewhere its hidden technology yet i find this unlikely since similar objects have been seen in the past when we had jet aircraft and highly unlikely we have been hiding advanced propulsion craft for 60 years?

Dohnjoe

gerrybbadd wrote: »

There's plenty of handheld footage out there. Just it isn't very good.

To give an example - have you ever tried taking a photo or video of the moon with the camera on your phone? It never comes out right, and the moon is often a lot bigger in the sky than "UFOs" would appear to be.

Oh yes I do agree, it would be hard to capture individually, depending on circumstances. However some of the mass events I've read about, if they happened today, would involve a lot of people getting corroborating footage

Dohnjoe

Dohnjoe wrote: »

Oh yes I do agree, it would be hard to capture individually, depending on circumstances. However some of the mass events I've read about, if they happened today, would involve a lot of people getting corroborating footage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor

As an example this event was captured by hundreds of cameras in clear and unambiguous detail.
Such detail in fact they could work out it's orbit.

It's a bit like how "Rods" and "Orbs" were all the rage when people were using early consumer cameras. But now, with cameras getting better and clearer, they don't seem to be as much of a thing anymore.