Why is this happening? There are mainly the following reasons.
1, in the new century, with the popularization of global compulsory education, people's knowledge has increased and their scientific cognitive ability has also improved. Things or phenomena that were previously mistaken for UFOs will no longer be misunderstood.
2. The previous UFO images were very blurred, and many UFO events were actually mistaken for UFOs because the photos or videos taken by the shooting equipment were blurred. Now the progress of photography technology has reduced UFO incidents.
3, the public's curiosity has decreased, and news reports have also decreased. In the last century, people were very enthusiastic about UFOs, aliens and flying saucers. In the past, many bad media even fabricated many fake UFO sightings for traffic. Many false reports have exhausted the patience of the audience, and the audience is no longer buying it.
Scientists have shown through research that there is no evidence that aliens have been to the earth, and UFOs are only UFOs, not necessarily alien spacecraft. In addition, the current news transmission speed is very fast, and some UFO incidents have been clearly explained by professionals before the fire. Many people have treated UFOs rationally.
In fact, not only UFO sightings have decreased, but also USO sightings have decreased.
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Talking about this topic really touched my heart.
I remember when I was in primary school, I was particularly obsessed with this thing. It was strange at that time, such books were easy to find, so I read these extracurricular books every day. I read with relish those books that were five or six centimeters thick and didn't know whether they were genuine or pirated. Of course, I like these things now. Astronomy has always been my greatest hobby, but I really don't pay much attention to UFOs and aliens. In these aspects, I think more about speculation and theory. I thought about it carefully, and there may be the following reasons:
In the past, the news was so closed that some information was difficult to spread, and even if it was spread, it was difficult for most people to see it. This situation led directly to what I saw and I don't know what happened. Things are much better now, but anything strange will spread easily. The user base of various news and information apps is also very large, and many seemingly incomprehensible things can be interrelated, which naturally will not become an unsolved mystery. For example, some time ago, a strange cloud appeared in the night sky, which was later proved to be a rocket experiment.
After the concept of UFO appears, a huge industry will naturally appear, including movies, books, toys, audio-visual and so on. This is a very big cake. In order to maintain the enthusiasm of the public, interest groups may deliberately make some ambiguous things very conclusive, or even fabricate them to achieve their goals. Now, perhaps the related industries are not so prosperous, so naturally no one is helping in the dark.
Nothing can prosper forever, nor can UFOs. Perhaps when UFOs were very hot before, naturally some people were willing to collect them. Now, this trend has passed, the public's attention has shifted, and people engaged in this industry have switched to other jobs. After all, it is difficult for this industry to support itself.
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This question can be explained in detail in an article by the Elephant Association in April 12, "Aliens who failed to be eliminated by popular science were defeated by smartphones". You can go and see it sometime. By the way, this article has product placement.
Here I briefly explain its point of view: the high-definition camera capability of smart phones enables so-called witness materials such as photos and videos to be falsified at the first time, and the more details, the easier it is to be falsified. Before the popularity of smart phones, the so-called witness photos or videos were often vague and didn't have enough details for people to distinguish.
The details of the famous Loch Ness monster are vague, and its size lacks reference. It is almost impossible to find more evidence.
Zhou Zhenglong's photos obviously have more details.
The above is the general view of the author of the Elephant Association.
Let me add that everyone is in the media age. A hot event often produces countless videos and pictures, and witnesses prove each other through different social platforms. The more witnesses, the harder it is to falsify.
The progress of science and technology also makes us pay more attention to the experience of life and the improvement of creativity. Everyone has lost interest in this mysterious cliche.
Haha, because everyone can take pictures and videos, you can't fool people anymore.
Shit, I didn't see many strange tricks when I was a child. ...
For example, there is a cartoon saying that if you put a photo in the water, the person in the photo will come out. I've been fucking with white ladies all summer!
When I was a child, some people said that you can eat transparent rubber shrimp by hanging the key and boiling it in water. If I didn't, I would cook it.
Before you want to know whether there are aliens, you must first understand a concept: in different media, the substances you see are different (shape, color, sound, etc.) In the medium of light, water, air, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen, the sights and objects seen by humans or mammals are similar, that is, in the same medium, humans can see and touch anything, anything. But in the ocean (when light, water, air, sodium hydroxide and other factors are not suitable for land), human ability will decline, in other words, the ocean is not suitable for human beings. But it is undeniable that there are no creatures like people under the sea. It's just a different environment. We can't meet. It's just like the parallel world described in comics. They won't interfere with each other without upsetting the balance. Once you open or understand the characteristics of a new media, you open a new world. Everything that enters or leaves the new world can be called UFO.
Think about the UFO craze in the 1980s and 1990s.
In the early 1990s, when I was still in junior high school, I came across a magazine called UFO Exploration. The mysterious unsolved mysteries and confusing UFOs in it suddenly fascinated me. Moreover, the article intentionally or unintentionally talks about flying saucers and aliens, which is a great encouragement for young people who lack experience and imagination. Even gave birth to my first professional ideal-astronaut.
Then why is it so difficult to have a UFO incident now? There are three reasons!
1, education is becoming more and more popular. The phenomenon that was once considered a UFO has been clearly explained, and the discoverer is not easy to make a fuss.
Because we have accepted that most of the so-called UFOs are atmospheric optical phenomena caused by human space activities, even if we find anything strange, we will first think of whether it is caused by human activities such as "wake clouds" of aircraft, space launch or missile experiments.
For example, 20 14, a satellite image from GOOGLE Earth, is rumored that China fighters are chasing UFOs abroad, but in our country, there is no storm. Because this plane, from the appearance and wake, looks like a civil aviation plane at first glance, and that circular light spot is just a reflection somewhere.
2, the rapid spread of information, while forming a topic, the answer has also come.
For example, the UFO incident at Hangzhou Xiaoshan Airport on 20 10, the attached picture looks very strange, much like a suspended plane. As a result, some netizens quickly replied that someone was flying a giant kite with only batteries and colored lights;
There is also an unknown biological event in the Yangtze River that just happened in September, 20 19. At first, many people still opened their minds or took the opportunity to boo, saying it was jiaozi, snakes, water monsters and so on. However, after the media followed up, someone interviewed the relevant experts soon, and the experts immediately denied it;
As a result, when I fished it out, it was a big black plastic net bag, which was caught by the stone on the dock. The action of the current makes it look like a swimming creature.
3, the most important thing is: the mobile phone is alone, and the pixels are getting higher and higher!
High-definition camera is the most difficult technology to break mysticism! Only fuzzy photos or videos can be used to make use of the topic, such as the video of savage witnesses in Shennongjia, Hubei Province. But now, the details are clear at a glance, and the door of imagination is closed immediately.
Just like the unidentified biological incident in the Yangtze River that just happened, the video zoomed in to see if the creatures were already aware of it, so so many netizens also speculated that it was a plastic bag or a fishing net.
To sum up, the improvement of the scientific literacy of the whole people+the rapid dissemination of information+the improvement of shooting technology are the main reasons why UFO incidents are less and less, and it is increasingly difficult to form a craze.
UFO is the abbreviation of uninitialized f flying of object, which is also translated into UFO. In other words, anything that flies in the sky but doesn't know what it is may be a UFO. Correspondingly, those who swim underwater can be called USO (Unidentified Submerged Body), that is, unidentified diving objects.
Figure: UFO
Figure: USO
The peak of UFO and USO reports was in the 1940s and 1990s. This is related to the great scientific discoveries that began at the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century. With the establishment of relativity and quantum mechanics, science has stepped onto a new stage. Under the impetus of scientific progress, many new technologies are constantly developing. Some new technologies have also entered the lives of ordinary people. These new technologies have strengthened people's understanding of science and made ordinary people begin to believe in science. New scientific concepts came into people's minds. Among them, the view that "we are not the only intelligent life in the vast universe" has almost become the consensus of the public.
However, we ordinary people have limited means and knowledge to identify and judge things. Coupled with relatively backward photographic equipment, public curiosity and media or personal propaganda with ulterior motives, UFO incidents became the news frequently reported by the media at that time.
But in recent ten years, reports about UFOs have been much less. Why?
First, after decades of onlookers, the public's curiosity has disappeared, because they have never obtained enough evidence to prove that alien civilization has reached the earth. Natural media reports less;
Photo: UFO cloud
Thirdly, because the smart phone is now in hand, the number of videos taken on the same UFO incident has increased and the clarity has improved. The public can restore the truth of the incident from multiple angles and make the "mysterious" incident no longer mysterious.
Figure: Rocket flight trajectory
UFO refers to an object of unknown origin and nature that floats and flies in the sky.
The word UFO comes from the "Blue Book Project" of the US Air Force.
What exactly is a UFO?
In reality, UFOs in the network are often vague, and a few are clear.
In recent years, due to the development of science and technology, the clarity of images has been greatly improved, and more and more fuzzy UFOs have been confirmed. They are actually remnants of rocket launches or satellites, or just natural phenomena. And some clearly visible UFOs are actually artificial fakes, just to attract people's attention and attract traffic.
People's habit is often to guess what they can't see clearly, coupled with the rendering reports of bad media, which will lead to the birth of legendary UFOs and even aliens.
With the development of science and technology, more and more puzzles have been uncovered. Advocating science is the right way.
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Most of the previous reports were "based on XXX's reports, analysis by XXX experts, some impurities, legends and what they said …", and honest people were convinced.
The shooting effect of mobile phone is comprehensive, and the content of watching the wind is naturally less when it is used universally. The faster network communication will make this information less in the future.
With the expansion of people's knowledge and the improvement of their knowledge level, people will be more objective, more rational and more logical in understanding things ... There will be fewer false, blind, exaggerated, knowingly asked and mystifying things.
Of course, only real, unexplained, evidenced and contrasted ……UFO events will be recognized and spread.
It is true that modern technology has been so developed, but there is not much news about UFOs. It stands to reason that everyone has a mobile phone and should have taken a lot of photos long ago. The original intention of UFO is "UFO", but many times people associate it with alien spacecraft. As I used to be a fan of this field, I want to try to analyze the reasons for it for everyone.
The era when UFO news was overwhelming should be the 1980s, when I was still in school. Think about it. At that time, there was no internet and even little TV, but I liked reading newspapers and various books, especially science magazines, in which there were reports about UFOs from time to time. These reports are vivid. What UFOs landed in the forests of foreign countries (mostly the United States), and some people even saw aliens with their own eyes. But I also wonder why there are no UFOs in our country, which is so big. Do aliens like developed countries?
Later, I remembered that many reports about UFOs may be false, which were fabricated by foreign media in order to win people's attention and create a sensational effect at that time. Imagine what kind of environment it is, of course, the hegemony and arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union. At that time, newspapers and TV often reported that, first, the Soviet spacecraft was successfully launched, and in a few days, the American space shuttle XXX would take off for the nth time. After a while, you will see the successful docking of the International Space Station. It seems that the whole world is in the hands of these two "superpowers".
At that time, science fiction movies were in full swing, and domestic audiences were very familiar with Star Wars and Superman. There are other sci-fi films such as Star Trek and Capricorn One. The popularity of these sci-fi films virtually fueled the flames, making people feel that the technology at that time was very developed. Now that we have landed on the moon, it seems that we can land on Mars tomorrow. Most of those reports about UFOs appeared in that environment, and even many foreigners thought that aliens were coming to the earth and were looking forward to a war with them!
Of course, technology changes with each passing day. It is said that a smart phone is more advanced than the technology used by Apollo 1 1 when landing on the moon. Isn't that a little funny? Now people have realized that those "Star Wars" plans are simply burning money. With the progress of science and technology, people are more rational. There may be aliens, but we can't find them so easily. Now people's enthusiasm for this has plummeted, and not many people believe in making such flashy reports. There are fewer so-called UFOs.