Where have you guys been? Flying saucers are alive and well! Sure, this video is fake, but it IS a classic flying saucer (spruced up a bit admittedly) and it IS supposedly a "recent sighting." Too bad for the hoaxster that the identical palm trees tell the tale of CG editing... http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...arch&plindex=1
Point is, good ol' fashioned mechanical UFOs are still in style for some folks... For the record I happen to believe that it's still possible that a tiny tiny fraction of a percent of "UFO" reports could be truly "extraordinary" in nature though I don't jump to the assumption of ETs. Either that or the rest of my family on my mom's side is insane. They had a group sighting as a family back in the early 60's (silent silver disc with windows and an interior on a very low flying path) so either they had a group hallucination (despite not being drug users), they're very good liars, or they saw something out of the ordinary. Like I said though, I don't jump to the assumption of ETs, anything's possible, but I also don't assume that anyone who claims to have seen something like this automatically needs psychological help. Since just about all such reports are bogus or nonsense however, I totally agree that the trends in UFO reports are heavily influenced by popular media. As they say, I try to keep my mind open to a point, but not so open that my brains fall out.