Comments by "jim oberg" (@jimoberg3326) on "Ep. 2 | Flying Saucer UFOs | Roswell, Kenneth Arnold, McMinnville, Rex Heflin | The Basement Office" video.

  1. "I'm detecting a big change in mainstream media when it comes to covering the topic of UFOs. " == I agree, but maybe for different reasons. My colleagues in the full-time journalism profession continue to face creeping Armageddon over dwindling numbers of paid professional news people with training, experience, and standards. For a public demanding 'free news', the old aphorism 'you get what you pay for' bites hard. If it's free, it's probably worthless -- or worse, it serves the agendas of those who now ARE paying for its creation and distribution. And another observable trend -- 'news' is often a come-on for websites that swarm with commercial messages from sellers who WANT to attract an audience of eager-believer gullible consumers who will believe ANYTHING if it's packaged attractively, and the content and spin of the 'news' they use as bait shows their level of respect for the intelligence and judgment of their prey. So we come to “Oberg’s law of commercializing credulity” As commercial advertising transitions to internet platforms the selection of where to place such ads is influenced by estimation of where are the most vulnerably credulous viewers. Websites seeking commercial ad revenue recognize the income advantages of being known as an attractant to gullible viewers who are easily manipulated by ego-boosting, who literally will believe anything they are shown if it makes them feel smarter than their peers. These UFO tales are the kind of conspiratorial ‘woke’ stories that have over the years been shown to attract exactly such a vulnerable audience for opportunistic exploitation.
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  2. "Nick Pope joins us for this episode of “The Basement Office” to discuss the history of the flying saucer, analyze the most credible reports" == Has there ever been a famous case Pope has NOT considered 'credible'?
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  3. The saucer can also be triangulated by lines-of-sight as the photographer moved. The views criss-cross right under the overhead power line that is usually cropped out of most UFO-published versions.
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