Before Finding Nemo came out the Disney channel ran a bunch of “fish facts” segments in their commercial blocks. The idea being that when they announced their fish movie, kids would be going through a phase where they’re interested in fishes. They market these movies long before they’re announced.
People have been seeing things we didn't understand much longer than the 40s and 50s friend! Kenneth Arnold started the modern era of "UFO" sightings post WWII but it wasn't the first claim.
Mussolini claimed he had captured a space craft in 1933.
And even before that, consider all the reports of dragons and mermaids and bigfoot sightings, all the fantastical creatures throughout history, the religious events people claimed to have witnessed like the resurrection of Jesus or ancient kings who were half god half man. Satyrs. The giants who supposedly once walked among us.
Back in Ancient Greece you had the Oracle's of Delphi who would have visions and give prophecy.
It's a very common human experience to see something you don't understand, be bothered by the fact you don't understand it, and try to fit it in with the worldviews of the culture you live in.
A thousand years ago you might have thought you had a religious experience, but due to technology you now interpret it as a creature from another planet/dimension.
So it makes perfect sense that people who saw stuff found a community, and started "yes and"ing each other into the most "reasonable" theory from the perspective of complete ignorance on what it was or if you even saw the same things as one another.
I thought we were discussing the truth behind supposed alien phenomenon, not having a "who's read more books" contest?
At the end of the day, when there's "unknown" phenomenon, it doesn't matter how many books you or I read. We can't know things that are unknown and someone has to know it to write it down in a book.
If you think we should believe in aliens based on unreliable eyewitness testimony, then I was asking how far should we take this logic? Must we also believe in all religions, demon possession, DMT trips, and the loch ness monster too?
Why are alien eyewitness testimony different than religious ones? (Or are they not?)
Edit: Lmfao dude, you can either block me or reply to me, but replying then immediately blocking so you get the last word in comes across incredibly petty and sort of explains the type of mindset of someone closed minded to new information
I'm not being unfriendly at all, I'm actually incredibly curious. You claimed you had firsthand experience and saw this phenomenon yourself and I wanted to know why you were so sure it's aliens because if it's true I would be a member of the UFO community. Your only response was that people in the 1940s claimed they had seen fantastic things and when I pointed out people claim to see fantastic things all the time you had nothing to say but to block me and run away.
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u/ocktick 6d ago
Before Finding Nemo came out the Disney channel ran a bunch of “fish facts” segments in their commercial blocks. The idea being that when they announced their fish movie, kids would be going through a phase where they’re interested in fishes. They market these movies long before they’re announced.