# How Come NOBODY sees UFOs Any More? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 25, 2007, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-nobody-sees-ufos-any-more/431213 "2007-12-25T17:50:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-nobody-sees-ufos-any-more/431213/21 "2007-12-26T13:45:24Z")
[QUOTE=Stranger On A Train] BI think it’s more likely that after nine seasons of “The X-Files” the viewing public is… burned out on UFOs [/QUOTE] You obviously don’t watch The History Channel. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-nobody-sees-ufos-any-more/431213/22 "2007-12-26T14:20:56Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] You obviously don’t watch The History Channel. [/QUOTE] I find that television interferes with my drinking. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-nobody-sees-ufos-any-more/431213/23 "2007-12-26T16:32:49Z")
[QUOTE=Stranger On A Train] I find that television interferes with my drinking. Stranger [/QUOTE] Really? I find it accelerates mine. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-nobody-sees-ufos-any-more/431213/24 "2007-12-26T17:07:55Z")
Yeah, but you’re so sloshed, you’re staring at the aquarium thinking its the Nature channel. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-nobody-sees-ufos-any-more/431213/25 "2007-12-26T17:46:17Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] Either that, or the aliens have gotten smarter about avoiding the **Earthling** paparazzi folks. 🙂 [/QUOTE] That’s Earthican. Get with the 31st century, why don’tcha? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-nobody-sees-ufos-any-more/431213/26 "2007-12-26T17:51:21Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] Yeah, but you’re so sloshed, you’re staring at the aquarium thinking its the Nature channel. [/QUOTE] So that thing I watched last night _wasn’t_ pay-per-view porn? I was curious why it featured my wife and neighbor… ---
**Author:** ![jimmmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jimmmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmmy)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2007, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-nobody-sees-ufos-any-more/431213/27 "2007-12-30T15:33:43Z")
There are lots and lots of [ongoing sightings posted here](http://www.nuforc.org/webreports.html) … just no pictures and no quality control ---
**Author:** ![laurielou862](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dec6dc/32.png) [@laurielou862](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/laurielou862)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2007, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-nobody-sees-ufos-any-more/431213/28 "2007-12-30T19:35:40Z")
I found this little blurb in my local CA newspaper about seven years ago: " **Washington – 'Military jets chase unknown aircraft’** For Renny Rogers, it was strange enough that military jets were flying low over his home in Waldorf, Md., in the middle of the night. It was what he thinks he saw when he headed outside to look early Friday that floored him. ‘It was this object, this light-blue object, traveling at a phenomenal rate of speed,’ Rogers said. ‘This Air Force jet was right behind it, chasing it, but the object was just leaving him in the dust. I told my neighbor, “I think those jets are chasing a UFO.”’ Military officials confirm that two F-16 jets from Andrews Air Force Base were scrambled early Friday after radar detected an unknown aircraft in Washington area airspace. But they scoff at the idea that the jets were chasing a strange and speedy blue, unidentified flying object. ‘We had a track of interest, so we sent up some aircraft,’ said Maj. Douglas Martin, a spokesmanfor the North American Aerospace Defense Comand (NORAD) in Colorado, which has responsibility for defending US airspace. ‘Everything was fine in the sky, so they returned home.’ At the same time, military officials say they do not know just what the jets were chasing, because whatever it was had disappeared." Unfortunately there’s no byline to the article, nor do I know the exact date. It would have been around Oct. 2000. ---
**Author:** ![milkshake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@milkshake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milkshake)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2007, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-nobody-sees-ufos-any-more/431213/29 "2007-12-30T22:41:40Z")
No more UFOs: The aliens finaly found Jesus. (Lets hope they probe him gently.) ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2007, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-nobody-sees-ufos-any-more/431213/30 "2007-12-30T22:59:12Z")
[QUOTE=milkshake] No more UFOs: The aliens finaly found Jesus. (Lets hope they probe him gently.) [/QUOTE] [Maybe they’ll use this.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=9314551) ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2007, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-nobody-sees-ufos-any-more/431213/31 "2007-12-31T05:57:04Z")
[QUOTE=milkshake] No more UFOs: The aliens finaly found Jesus. (Lets hope they probe him gently.) [/QUOTE] Considering what the rabbi did at his bris and the Romans did at his crucifixion, probing would be a walk in the park. There are serious downsides to being all-remembering. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2007, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-nobody-sees-ufos-any-more/431213/32 "2007-12-31T08:32:07Z")
Aliens don’t need to use UFOs anymore - channeling is all the rage, I hear. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2007, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-nobody-sees-ufos-any-more/431213/33 "2007-12-31T08:51:55Z")
Is that the method gaining spiritual enlightenment via the practice of dousing yourself with overpriced perfume? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-nobody-sees-ufos-any-more/431213.md?page=1)