The Trump administration has once again recently declassified a bunch of US military documents about "UFOs", and some people are going crazy about it, claiming that it confirms that UFOs are real, they are physics-defying alien spacecraft, and that the military has confirmed their existence.
Yet, what does this evidence consist of? A lot of written reports, and blurry footage. That's it. That's all we got. That's all the military got, for all we know.
And, indeed, all of the photos and video footage of alleged UFOs always show blurry blobs. It's never sharp in-focus footage showing clear small details.
Do you know why all the UFO footage is always blurry?
Because when the footage is not blurry, when it shows the object in question in sharp intricate detail, it's always very evident what it actually is. That's why.
So it's a kind of "natural selection" process: When the footage is sharp, clear, in focus, showing intricate detail, it just gets dismissed for what it actually is, ie. something completely mundane (such as a weather balloon, a bird, an airplane, a drone, a weather phenomenon, or a photographic artifact.) It's only when the footage is blurry and does not show in detail what it actually is when it fools the human eye, the human perception, and fools us into believing that it has to be something unusual.
Incidentally, there is also a lot of footage that have segments that are blurry and "looks like an UFO", and which isolated from the rest of the footage may fool enthusiasts, but when you watch the entire video it becomes very clear what it actually is, eg. because the object in question (such as a helicopter or drone) comes into focus, or if for example there's actually some radio communication with the object in question, which ends up landing at an airbase, making it obviously clear that it's eg. a fighter jet or helicopter.
And military pilots are not immune from being confused by such blurry footage, especially if it's taken with an infrared night vision camera (which is really common). They might track an unidentified object, which they don't know what it is, and then report this strange phenomenon. In reality it was probably just a bird or a weather balloon or similar, and it just looks blurry in the footage because of the extreme distance, extreme zoom, and lack of focus (usually the plane's camera focuses on the ground, not on the tiny object, especially if it can't know what the distance to the object is.) Infrared night vision makes the problem even worse because it literally sees an infrared glow, not the actual object.
The fact that these documents and the footage come from official military sources gives false credibility to the UFO claims. The military is not any more immune to being confused by blurry footage as anybody else.
(And the funny thing is that sometimes the documents actually have a much more plausible explanation than what's depicted on the internet or even mainstream media. For example, the documentation attached to one of the most famous pieces of footage, which shows a fighter jet flying at high speed tracking a blurry object, labels said object as a weather balloon. The mainstream media and UFO enthusiasts either don't know about this labeling, or just ignore and reject it. They don't want to believe it. However, it's likely the actual correct explanation.)
Once they start showing very sharp, in-focus, clear, high-resolution footage that shows the alien spacecraft in intricate detail, and it's corroborated as being authentic footage from a reliable military source, then I might start taking it slightly more seriously. However, as long as the only thing they have is blurry blobs, the only thing I will do is sigh.
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