Burnt State
Paranormal Adept
If you include at least airships at the turn of the century, as part of an ongoing human experience of seeing strange things in the skies, then the phenomenon has always been technologically and culturally relevant to our own culture and tech. Now that we're all about digital control and drones maybe all we get is orbs and tic tacs?The firsthand witnesses from the Modern Era who are still alive might very well be the last generation to experience the real deal.
That age of the witness, especially the group of witnesses, or the focussed flap in a small geographical area, is just not really part of the contemporary UFO lexicon. It's all just time wasting talking about disclosure B.S.

There have always been emperors, Caesars, czars, mad kings, dicktators and the ultra wealthy who back them and really run things while the rest of us are just serfs, available to be jailed,.deported, beaten up, dragged through court, the streets or maybe shot on sight. Nothing much has changed for a really long time in that regard.I digress — But I have an increasingly bad feeling about humanity's future, with trillionaires and the CCP tooling-up to create an entire race of intelligent slaves.

That's apocalyptic thinking. Might as well worry that Asian hornets will make their way up north and kill everyone the way we worried about Killer Bees in the late 70's and early 80's - whatever happened to that damn invasion!?I have a very bad feeling — a very bad feeling indeed. Like something big is going to smack us all down — completely out of left field.
Remember Y2K and that supposed apocalypse, or the Mayan calendar? None of it came to fruition. Just gotta get Zen about everything! First.principles: you shouldn't waste time worrying about things you can't control, and that includes the end of the world & human civilization as we know it.
Personally I think octopi should be in charge. We're not that special really - we've wrecked the planet. We have great potential, but just can't really agree collectively to get rid of our old hatreds, nationalist and religious leanings, and would rather surrender to the corporate godhood and buy their plastic while governments bomb and kill women and children mostly in wasteful wars. You know where that's gonna get us \/

Or not . . . I dunno . . . maybe this is how the old people felt in the 1700s, after they invented the steam engine![]()