No. You had made a claim that every description from UFO sightings mirrored the technology of the time. I simply thought to myself "that's a pretty bold statement, I don't think professor is aware of every sighting description to have ever existed." and looked up a few examples where the descriptions that stated saucers, and other flying shapes that weren't a man-made ariel possibility at the time.
This is what I actually said:
It's bizarre, btw, that waves of UFO sightings follow advances in human technology, isn't it? We're getting these waves of little UFOs messing with military operations at the exact time manmade drones become prevalent. Crop circles got intricate and technical at the exact moment that computer drafting and GPS technology allowed fields to be mapped out from the ground. Flying saucers became a thing at the exact moment that jet technology became widespread. Abduction of humans by little gray men didn't start happening until AFTER Hollywood started showing TV shows where people were abducted by gray men.
Do you find it odd that the sightings always seem to match the technology of the era? Before we had planes, no one reported flying saucers or tic tac UFOs in the sky to any serious degree. What few sightings there were usually looked like meteor showers or were described as slow airships....the exact thing that existed with man at the time. Even after planes started, UFO sightings were rare. But once we got jet capabilities, suddenly people started seeing UFOs that just happened to be the same color and size and skinnier sleetness of jets. Experimental jets started flying, and then the UFOs stared doing things like experimental jets. Now we have drones, and - big surprise! - we're seeing little drone UFOs everywhere.
I said that WAVES of UFO sightings tend to follow the technology of the time, and that before planes no one reported flying saucers or tic tac UFOs TO ANY SERIOUS DEGREE. This isn't the first time that you've distorted things I said.
Your coverage of pre-1900 UFOs proved my point. There were no waves of flying saucer sightings, nor were there flying saucers reported to any great degree. Instead, you had just a couple incidents that mentioned a bowl or saucer, in both cases they were talking about some small object you could basically hold in your hands (like the bowls/plates of the time) not a giant craft, and in both circumstances the other details give the impression you're dealing with crazy people making shyt up and not any serious sighting. Neither of the sightings that mentioned bowls/saucers looked ANYTHING like a modern flying saucer sighting.
I could've just stated how that premise is overly presumptuous and assumes you're aware of every ufo description in history (which you aren't);
The most basic reading comprehension would have shown to you that I wasn't trying to refer to "every ufo description in history."
You basically are claiming that these people only had the creative aptitude to describe something within their realm of technological understanding.
No, I'm not.
I'm saying that waves of sightings by the general public tend to report things along the lines of what humans are already capable of at the time. Which suggests they're seeing human technology.
Sightings of things that could fly in the air like planes or helicopters, large objects going fast and changing direction, were not reported in any significant degree until humans started flying around with planes and helicopters.
Sightings of lights in the sky at night (beyond obvious meteors and stars) were almost totally nonexistent before humans began flying things with lights in the sky at night. You didn't have any "black triangle UFOs" with three or five points of light until planes began flying in formation and/or with points of light on their wingtips at night.
Crop circle complexity always followed the advances in human technology. Crop circles of the 1970s and 1980s were only as good as what people could judge from the ground with sticks and ropes. And they only appeared in 1st-world countries where random people had the time and energy to pull dumb pranks like that. But in the 1990s when they could begin drafting their crop circles on computers and then mapping them out with GPS, suddenly you got an immediate improvement in complexity.....though they still almost entirely appear in 1st-world countries where people have the time and energy for it, and 95% of them are in the exact same small locations where crop circle clubs operate.
UFOs that looked like weather balloons didn't show up until we started launching weather balloons. UFOs that looked like balloons floating by didn't show up until we started letting balloons go in random places.
Even in the historical sightings you gave, the first sightings of UFOs that looked and flew like blimps or dirigibles emerged almost exactly the same time that the first dirigibles were being invented.
There are extremely rare exceptions, of course, cause anyone who wants to make up a wild story about something can and will do so. But in terms of the NORMS of UFO sightings, things reported repeatedly and commonly across any particular era, always follow the capacities of the tech and natural phenomena that we already know existed in that time period.
