The absolute state of 'UFO' sightings these days

I've been browsing the encounters forum and honestly, 99% of the posts are just people seeing Venus and having an existential crisis about it. 'Saw a bright light moving strangely' - mate, that's called the International Space Station. 'Heard strange sounds outside' - yes, it's called Sheffield at 2am.

Remember when aliens allegedly visited us, they had the decency to do something interesting? Now they just hover silently above industrial estates on the M62. That's not an intergalactic visitor, that's a Tesco drone delivery trial.

The funniest part is everyone's convinced they're the one genuine sighting in a sea of bollocks. You're not special, Karen, you saw a weather balloon. We've all seen a weather balloon.

To be fair, Venus does move in strange ways if you don't know what you're looking at. I've convinced at least four mates that what they saw was definitely aliens when it was just the evening star. Wind them up something proper.

You're not wrong though. The quality of 'evidence' on here is laughable sometimes. Someone saw a light in the sky with no context, no photo, no nothing, and suddenly everyone's discussing alien propulsion systems. Critical thinking goes out the window.

In fairness, if I saw something genuinely weird, this is the last place I'd post because I'd get absolutely roasted by the 'skeptics.' Can't blame people for being vague when they know they'll get torn apart.

I just appreciate that we live in a world where someone can still be spooked by something and has a community to talk about it. Better than keeping it bottled up and worrying alone. Even if 99% of it is Venus 😂