Whatever happened to "Flying Saucers"?

Maybe they never existed (or not in the quantity that they were reported) after all.

We’re also smarter now – back in the heyday of UFOs, planes and jets and helicopters were comparatively new and my guess is that some people reported distant planes as if they were UFOs.

Now, we have all of the above, and we also have drones, and people are just inured to the presence of things in the sky.

We destroyed all the flying saucers on Independence Day, don’t you remember?

And what the hell is that smell??

Irate wives in domestic dispute when husband staggers home drunk?
You don’t see them anymore since Jerry Springer went off air.

Hey..don’t laugh, but…I was followed by a beam of purple light on a remote highway near Mt. Shasta CA. in 2004. I don’t know what the hell it was, but it was very strange. lol
I’m serious!

About a year after 911 Rick and I were “stalked” by some hovering light. We saw it a few times. For example, we were coming back from the lake, after dark, on about 20 miles of pretty much empty, twisting highway. This light seemed to track us, moving backward at the same speed we were moving forward and just stayed in the same position,pointed directly at us. I watched it for about 5 minutes, then said, “Rick…do you see that?”
“Yes, I do.”
“Good. I was hoping it wasn’t just me.”
It watched us all the way into town, then took off.
We saw it often enough that we started calling it “our friends.”
It showed up about a week later, over our house.
I said, “Our friends are back”
He came out and looked, shrugged, and went back inside.
Serious.

@Coloma and @Dutchess_III Creepy! Yet cool! lol
I know a lot of people who have seen UFO’s.
I never have, but I’ve always wanted to. I feel slighted.

I’ll holla at our friends to pay you a visit!

When I was a teen my girlfriend and I were headed into Wichita to party. We were stopped by a train. As we sat there some circular object slid into view. It had red lights around the edge of it. After a few minutes my girlfriend jumped out of the car and went up to the driver’s side window of some “old” guy in front of us. She asked if he saw it.
He got almost defensive, and snarled, “It’s probably some new air force thing!” and rolled the window back up.

Funny how all the UFO’s described in the 50’s looked like circa 50’s stuff, while the UFO’s in the 70s (like the one my girlfriend and I saw) looked like circa Close Encounters of the Third Kind stuff! And they just keep getting more advanced, right along with us. Hmmmm.

Wait until UAVs become more popular than they are already.

The design became obsolete 10 years ago and we replaced them with triangular shaped craft.
That, and we improved the overal reliability of our cloaking devices.

Guess they went the way of Flying Cups.

But seriously… the saucer was a design that looked futuristic until Star Wars and Star Trek came along. “Futuristic Looking” is a constantly moving target.

Stealth fighters superseded the design.

@Dutchess_lll you had a UFO over your house and you didn’t stay outside the entire time? They usually take people for an hour or so if they are following them OR are over their roof
. Your husband is extremely strange to not be interested in watching it.

We did watch it, a lot. Especially when it was following us in the car. But it was just a light. You couldn’t see what kind of craft it was coming from, so there was really not much to watch.

They took off with all the kids with two parents.

It’s not that I don’t believe in aliens or unknown life forms, nor do I disbelieve that some have come here. What I don’t believe is the media’s interpretation of it, as it is too much fueled by entertainment. Although having said that, entertainment must have a source, as well. Still, aliens are either too human, or too much like something we would be scared of. I mean seriously, what the hell do aliens want with butts, anyway? Where does that even come from?

Anyways my guess is that aliens and the sightings thereof have an evolution, one which has all to do with us, and nothing to do with what may or may not be oot der. I read in this book that different parts of the world tend to see different types of aliens…we over here see slender gray dudes with big eyes, in parts of Europe they see tall dudes that look like fantasy elves, in Africa they see rock monsters or octopi that walk on the ground…my guess is that our aliens grow alongside our cultures, mythologies and perceptions, which really have nothing to do with actual aliens, if there are any. There seems to be tow kinds of aliens known to men; monster like aliens who have supreme technology, but who just snarl and hiss, and humanoid beings that are exactly like humans, aside from some differing physical features. Supreme technology also included. A slight third inclusion are half human half animals, but the animal part is often from some animal that we have here on earth.
Somehow this shit just doesn’t sit with me. I mean check this out, in the middle ages, people with sleep paralysis used to think they were being visited by ghosts and the like. People who claim to have been abducted by aliens describe the same symptoms as sleep paralysis. That’s just one example, out of many I’m sure. I used it because I suffer from sleep paralysis, and the first time it occurred, I was sure it was a ghost, as silly as this sounds. They are very scary and seem so real. So even in this day and age, stuff like that can easily be translated to something entirely different than what it actually is.
Although to get back to what I was trying to say, my guess is, the time for flying saucers is over as technology evolves. I suppose I should try to explain my basis if I’m going to make such a statement, but eh. As I say, it’s just a guess, really. Kind of like how in the fifties, people pictured flying cars for the future, and now we picture teleportation for the future. Not that this has fuckall to do with xenomorphs.

When Michael Jackson died, they lost any reason to visit.

You can find flying saucers in Mexican restaurants all over Southern California.

People have seen at least two forms of aliens at once. The reptilians and the grays. Then there are the super tall ones. Of course, this is just what I’ve read ..