Why so many reports about UFO'S lately?

Question

Why so many reports about UFO'S lately?

Answer 1

people wanna make a lil bit of money saying they saw 1 .... n papers publish all sorts of c**p

Answer 2

Because Care In The Community isn't working

Answer 3

Because people can't tell a star apart from aircraft. Let alone the low orbit satellites that pass by slowly without flashing lights...

Answer 4

Maybe it has something to do with 2012 coming up in a few years. Maybe they are slowly  getting ready to announce their existence.(in order not to cause panic and chaos)

In the past couple of years most countries have released their UFO files to the public. The Vatican even said that ETs are our brothers and it wouldn't interfere with Christian beliefs.

There has been many mass sightings with prominent people with things to loose coming out and saying they saw some thing "out of this world" in the sky.

Answer 5

CAUSE THERE g*y!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 6

The other guys are right about it being silly season in the news. Last year in the UK it was all about great white sharks. This year it's UFOs.  Despite this, I think there's more to it than that.

I think it's a cyclical thing that reflects people's interests. For the past couple of years ghosts and talking to spirits has been pretty big. Now it's UFO/aliens again.

The conspiracy theories that attract to the subject are an insight into our creative triumph over evidence, sense and honesty! It's impossible to gather stats but I'd certainly expect less than1 in 100 sightings is genuine. My friends and I saw one some years ago on the south coast. Red light zig zagged from horizon to horizon in maybe 3 seconds. It was faster than anything we know about. Couldn't help wonder why the h**l it didn't go in a straight line!? Intergalactic joyriders and an awful lot of bul*****.

Answer 7

The factual scientific explanation according to Carl Sagan & Thornton page:

Because of recent media coverage of missions. There’s always heightened interest in the subject and reporting / sightings increase every time public interest is generated. Simple as that.

Stats aside (which have in fact been researched and published) , It's true ! You watch, everytime new photos of mars are released etc.. guaranteed, there are sightings reported on the news. The conspiracy nuts all start pointing out imaginary ‘settlements’ in the photos, it’s ridiculous but very predictable.

Answer 8

A lot of people don't realize what they may be seeing is Venus or Jupiter, the 2 brightest planets in our sky. Venus can appear during the evening or during sunrise. Right now, Jupiter is the brigntest spot in the sky during most of the night.

Answer 9

lunacy, begets lunacy, ad nauseum....

Answer 10

It is just mass hysteria caused by the media and people believing into this garbage. There are absolutely no space aliens on the earth nor have they ever visited earth at any point in time. UFOs are just natural phenomena, secret test military aircraft, satellites or perhaps weather balloons or other types of balloon that are mistaken for aircraft flown by "little green men".  

Answer 11

people like being in the newspaper

Answer 12

I don't really seem to notice any more than usual, so I think its a matter of perspective.

UFO sightings seem to occur in clusters. As soon as someone sees something unfamiliar in the sky, it causes others to look up and be more observant than they normally would. Of course when they do look up expecting to see "strange lights" ,common explainable things like planets or airplanes become the "UFO's" they are expecting to see.

Answer 13

Not more as any summer in the last 50 years. Media is running out of good stories.  

Answer 14

its summertime

silly season regarding "news"

Answer 15

It's a sign of the times. Yes, and why are so many whales and dolphins beaching?

Some people say that ufo's really come from the centre of the earth. Maybe there is a link between them and the dolphins and whales committing suicide!

Answer 16

ST.HELENS IN MERSEYSIDE IS THE LATEST AFTER READING THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER IT SAYS THIS AREA IS A HOTSPOT , I FEEL AS THOUGH PEOPLE CAN BE EASILY MISLED BY NATURAL EVENTS eg CLOUDS AND AIRCRAFT BUT THAT DOESNT MEAN THAT THEY HAVE NOT VISITED ,WE ARE LED TO BELIEVE THAT EARTH IS LIKE A BUS STOP .

Answer 17

Probably cos the football season has not yet restarted  

Answer 18

Maybe it's the news folks running out of stories. Maybe the government is going to tell us they are real. Or maybe there are some new aircraft about to go public?  

Answer 19

Because television shows like "UFO Hunter" romanticize that hogwash as if it were some sort of Dawg the Bounty Hunter exercise.

The Vatican's statement, however, was not an official statement of doctrine.  The Vatican's chief astronomer responded to a hypothetical question.  If it should be shown that space aliens exist, Catholic doctrine already includes them as part of God's creation (not "our brothers") and therefore the issue poses no crisis of faith for Catholics.  It is not an admission or assertion that space aliens exist.

Answer 20

because people drink more alcohol nowadays