Because in France they are called Objectè de Aeiouronauté Nonidentifequě.
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Read Mirage Men. It's on Library Genesis / Anna's Archive or whatever new version of that is around
its the american dream!
The perfectly marbled fat on American thighs gives you all such an exquisite flavour.
They aren't strictly, speaking.
The UFO craze kicked off just after WW2 in the US, so you initially had a lot there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidentified_flying_object
While unusual sightings have been reported in the sky throughout history, UFOs became culturally prominent after World War II, escalating during the Space Age.
In the Pacific and European theatres during World War II, round, glowing fireballs known as "foo fighters" were reported by Allied and Axis pilots. Some explanations for these sightings included St. Elmo's fire, the planet Venus, hallucinations from oxygen deprivation, and German secret weapons (specifically rockets).[15] In 1946, more than 2,000 reports were collected, primarily by the Swedish military, of unidentified aerial objects over the Scandinavian nations, along with isolated reports from France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Greece. The objects were referred to as "Russian hail" (and later as "ghost rockets") because it was thought the mysterious objects were possibly Russian tests of captured German V1 or V2 rockets, but most were identified as natural phenomena as meteors.[16]
Many scholars, especially those arguing for the psychosocial UFO hypothesis, have noted that UFO characteristics reported after the first widely publicized modern sighting by Kenneth Arnold in 1947 resembled a host of science fiction tropes from earlier in the century.[17][18][19][20][21][22][23]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_flying_disc_craze
The 1947 flying disc craze was a rash of unidentified flying object reports in the United States that were publicized during the summer of 1947. The craze began on June 24, when media nationwide reported civilian pilot Kenneth Arnold's story of witnessing disc-shaped objects which headline writers dubbed "Flying Saucers". Such reports quickly spread throughout the United States; historians would later chronicle at least 800 "copycat" reports in subsequent weeks, while other sources estimate the reports may have numbered in the thousands.
Because us is the capital of earth.
🇺🇲 HELL YEAH AMERICA ROCKS 🇺🇲
Do you actually mean that?
🇺🇸YOU BETCHA I DO 🇺🇸
HELL YEAH 🦅🦅
More interesting question is how the hell in a world with 4k phone cameras we still only get blurry vhs tape quality videos.
This premise is also false. Go on youtube to see high definition video of UFOs.
There are tons of sightings, and yes they went up with the advent of phones.
Cause they're fake.
Take your rock.
What do you mean? Because it's a valid explanation. It's near impossible to fake a perfectly clear and high res, well focused image or video without showing artifacts of image manipulation. I do agree that a lot of those are taken in by amateurs on questionable gear, but I've yet to see a compelling video that cannot be debunked. And in the case of the navy or whatever army branch supposed sightings, I think those leave us with two options since they are so secretive on the subject ; it's purposefully deceptive or it's fabricated by third parties without consent. I want to believe but nothing ever comes out of those sightings so it's very hard to be impartial.
Dude.
What does '"take your rock" suppose to mean then?
You missed my joke.
Yeah and I'm again asking to explain it because to me it sounded like you asked me to take my meds.
You took my joke serious and than tried to explain your point. I used an old expression to point it out: Thank you Captain Obvious. Have this rock.
Never heard this expression in my life
You must be rather new to internet then.
Ya it's only been 20 years.
Captain obvious was definitely a 2000 meme so strange you never encountered it. Or maybe you are pulling my leg now - what is even real anymore?
I'm honestly not. I've heard the captain obvious part sporadically, but never seen "have a rock".
Then there are only two possibilities: I spend too much time online, or you spend not enough.
Exactly.
Because it's God's chosen country, duh?!
#MAGA
Or because we're the biggest threat to the planet.
Your premise is garbage. A few moments worth of searching:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_Mexico
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varginha_UFO_incident
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reported_UFO_sightings
Sorry I meant almost all the videos are from the US.
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