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Can I Get a, "DUH?!?" From the Audience?
"Ric Romero here, reporting live from Britain. Scientists have detected a link between UFO sightings and UFO depictions in the popular media." What I think is interesting is how similar stories of mysterious flying objects were reported in the 19th century, except there the craft were depicted as giant boat-like machines attached to balloons. There's definitely something going on, but I think it has more to do with the space between our ears than it does the space above our heads.
“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” -- Calvin.
What I find interesting is that the term "flying saucer" does not come from a description of their shape, but of their movements. Someone said that they moved in jumps, "like a saucer skipped over water." But once the term "flying saucers" became common, people started seeing UFOs shaped like saucers.
And then they started making crop circles, the most complex of which were fractals which had recently been discovered by humans. And the particular fractals depicted were the very ones that had appeared in popular human publications.
Weird.