The novelty of UFOs (flying saucers) ended when (or maybe why)?

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My interest in the UFO phenomenon waned when virtually all the reports of UFOs were about lights in the sky, sometime in the 1980s?

Who gives a damn about lights in the sky? They could be anything, mostly prosaic things.

In the heyday of flying saucers we had reports of tangible, nuts-and-bolts like objects in the sky and on the ground, often accompanied by odd entities, humanoid beings.

Today, we are inundated by reports of ephemeral, evanescent lights scooting overhead, rarely settling on the ground and certainly not debarking weird beings.

How can one get excited by that?

Somehow, like all things that begin novel, the phenomenon has dipped into a state of stasis and reportorial routine.

This explains why many of us UFO long-timers hark back to alleged sightings of old.

They had mysterious cachet.

Will UFOs have a resurgence or renaissance?  Not likely.

The phenomenon has dissipated, to the point of curious ennui by “ufologists” no matter how fervently they protest that this isn’t so.

I know that many who sneak by here hate that I keep bemoaning the state of ufology and UFOs here but it is endemic that we adhere to St. Paul’s dictum:

"When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." [1 Corinthians 13:11]

RR