Quote:
Originally Posted by Luckbox Inc
Yeah when the Washington Post has a headline saying "UFOs are real and everyone needs to adjust to it", or when The Week puts them on its cover - I'd say something is happening.
Well, going from your post, it appears there was a four month period in 2019 where a few big publications ran some stories. So, I guess something was happening, but I don't know how noteworthy it really was.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Luckbox Inc
That was two years ago but it isn't like the stories have stopped.
Nor had they stopped before.
IDK, it just strikes me that this is a cyclical news topic. Lots of people find the subject somewhat interesting, so when something happens in the field, it piques interest for a while and a number of stories are run. Then it dies down. Rinse and repeat.
FWIW, here's a Google Trends graph for the term "UFO":
You can see a couple blips in that 2019 period where those articles ran, then back down, and it had a big spike last April. The last year or two have definitely been one of the more active periods, but that's coming after a 10 year gradual decline. Might this be part of a longer-term trend? Maybe.
Obviously Google Trends aren't the same thing as the media, but I'd be pretty surprised if there wasn't usually a correlation.