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In reply to the discussion: UFO Hearing totally erased all other coverage. Not. [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(101,320 posts)62. Well, that's an interesting hypothesis - that films are convincing people they understand aliens
and their motivations, and that thus there must be aliens visiting us, and so they'll interpret things they see as aliens.
It's true that the sightings of UFOs increased when people started worrying about foreign aircraft being able to overfly countries, and with new technical achievements like jet engines and nuclear bombs. And the the sightings encouraged films, and the films encouraged sightings. But I think it's a bit much to blame all this on one film, in which the alien actually appears openly and communicates, rather than the "they're hiding from us" mentality that these random images have to posit.
Before our technical advances suggested aliens to us, we had lots of religious imagery to explain things in the sky.
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The key to this whole question is a movie from 1950s, "The Day The Earth Stood Still"
Stuart G
May 2022
#35
When asked if any UAP reports included multiple types of data, they went dark.
Kid Berwyn
May 2022
#19
They have been here, & looked us over. Decided humans not "smart enough" to have contact with.
Stuart G
May 2022
#11
Ore to the point, public reports of UFOs and aliens tend to mirror the movies they've seen recently
brooklynite
May 2022
#64
Our phones are designed for portraits, close up pictures of us in everyday life
Mr. Sparkle
May 2022
#31
Unless there is an Alien invasion , the odds of a small number of professional photographers
Mr. Sparkle
May 2022
#57
Yes, posted before, But the key to this whole question is a movie: "The Day The Earth Stood Still"
Stuart G
May 2022
#36
Well, that's an interesting hypothesis - that films are convincing people they understand aliens
muriel_volestrangler
May 2022
#62
I don't know why it still surprises me how many people vehemently reject this topic
anarch
May 2022
#39
I think the government knows more than that, but the government is not going to tell it all.
Stuart G
May 2022
#55
I'm guessing people "reject this topic" because there's no evidence to support it...
brooklynite
May 2022
#56
Thanks, Kid, and hang in there! Amazing how "This is real" from the military (2017) gets forgotten
librechik
May 2022
#87