And by aliens I mean, outer space creatures and UFO. For whatever reason all UFO sighting footage looks either fake or like recorded with a Casio keyboard. And I find hard to believe we don’t have any decent footage of them with all the surveillance and technology we have now.

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  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    With the advent of smartphones with cameras, you’d think reports and footage of anything would be through the roof. That hasn’t happened, quite the opposite.

    That tells me all I need to know.

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      16 days ago

      I once got flamed into oblivion for pointing that one out in a UFO subreddit. That and saying that filming at night doesn’t magically make the video quality go THAT bad. Then I got banned.

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        15 days ago

        Have you tried taking a picture of a plane with a smartphone? The picture will be 99.9% sky and a tiny dot where the plane is. When you zoom in digitally you can hardly even tell what it is.

        When it’s dark it’ll be much, much worse quality. Smarphone camera sensors are tiny as hell and in order to capture enough light in a dark environment means the ISO needs to be cranked up to the max which introduces a ton of noise. And as if that’s not enough, the shutter speed needs to be decreased as well which gurantees that shooting a moving target will only get you a blurry and noisy picture.

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      15 days ago

      This plus a large network of amateur and professional astronomers who would almost certainly see any kind of craft coming towards the Earth and especially into the atmosphere. It could be that aliens came back before this was common and kind of … hung around? Undetected. I don’t buy it.

      They almost certainly exist. But they are not here.