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Originally Posted by PeterM
Ditto to what Alex said.
It's a stretch that amateur astronomers don't recognise when something different happens in the sky with the naked eye, heck we see meteors, satellites, just a flicker from airoplane in the distance, a high beam light reflecting of fog in the distance etc etc. Especially when amateurs know the sky. I remember reading once that if more people knew about astronomy there would be less UFO reports and there are now a gazillion people with mobile phone cameras out there, so where is the increase in UFO picks. My god we should be filming the invasion by now.
PeterM
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Most people don't even bother to look up anymore, Peter.
Most amateur astronomers don't recognise many changes occurring in the sky because for the most part they're still unfamiliar with it. You or I would, simply because we have a lot of experience behind us. Most of the members here would...or I should hope so. But even we can get bamboozled at times. And many times, we're not outside for whatever reasons at the time. Doing other things, sleeping etc etc.
In any case, any credible researcher looking at UFO's doesn't go chasing what are the obvious cases of optical illusions, "lights in the sky" and such. What they go chasing are those reports where a witness has spotted something very unusual hanging around...like a full blown metallic disk hovering or flying on by, lights that do have something physical behind them etc etc etc. Then they look at those reports and see whether they hold up to scrutiny, or not. Those that do (and there are a lot more than you think), well and good. Those that don't fall by the wayside.