I see UFOs all the time. I'm just don't know that much about aircraft and am not good at identifying them. Doesn't mean we've made contact with extraterrestrial life or that it would be worth my time to videorecord anything.

Try taking a photo of a plane in the sky with your phone sometime. You'll find that the angle of the lens is too wide to capture things far away.

Now, I agree with your basic premise that UFO sightings are probably mostly BS since the number of sightings has plummeted since people started carrying cellphones, but notice how people aren't reporting that they took a picture and now it too small for them to see. They just stopped altogether.

My pet theory is that UFOs are an intrinsically 20th century phenomenon. TV no longer has that iconography on all the time, so we're not getting poked and prodded with the images anymore, and for anyone paying attention to our ever-improving 21st century understandings of the limits of technology, the idea that advanced races would be visiting us in huge spacecraft that sometimes get accidentally seen is absurd. If they wish to observe us without being seen, then it is very easy to imagine that they have long since modified our brains in such a way that they can simply edit themselves out, and also ensured that nobody is capable of witnessing the modifications, either. The idea of a War of the Worlds scenario where perhaps we could fight off an invasion is a very 20th century idea... in the 21st century it's pretty clear that if a starfaring culture wanted us out of the way, we'd be dead before we even realized a conflict had started. And I mean that literally; if they so chose, every human on the planet simultaneously dropping dead with no human-detectable advance warning wouldn't be all that challenging. Alternatively, at an unknown time in our past our entire planet's information content was hoovered up, we're running in a simulation, and the real solar system has long since been converted to computronium in the real world.

Personally I still favor life being more rare than we credit it with, and that we are fundamentally alone. But regardless, the idea that we're being visited in sometimes-observed spacecraft by apparently only quasi-competent aliens is absurd in light of what we know now. If "they" are among us, they are not quasi-competent, they are competent to a level that we can barely imagine.

With higher resolution, blobs and smears suddenly become ordinary terrestrial objects.

I tried to take a picture of a deer once in a park with my phone. I knew where the deer had run to, so I had everything on my side. Alas, the deer run when it saw me, and given how slow the auto-focus of my phone was, all I got was a small blur. Not even I would believe me.

I gained some respect that day for anyone who claims to have seen something, and yet has no decent evidence.

obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1235/

Try filming a distant moving object with a commodity phone camera, especially in lower light. Everyone has a camera, yes, but it's the wrong kind of camera for capturing anything useful in this area.

If you wanted to get a good UFO photo or video what you'd really want is a high-resolution infrared camera. Unless our UFOnauts (whatever/whoever they are) are exempt from physics, anything using energy for any kind of powered flight must emit infrared whether it wants to or not.

I can't speak to their veracity but there are new sighting that happen all the time that are largely ignored. Check out reddit.com/r/ufos.

The night time quality of my phone camera is awful. I could record a full moon and you couldn't tell what it was.

Maybe in a few years.

Search youtube for UFO and you'll find thousands of videos with sightings. I personally think that they are all fakes or explainable objects, but who knows, maybe there are real UFOs in those videos ?

What kind of video would it take for us to believe ?

I don't know if sightings have increased, per se.

But there are a lot of sightings captured on cell phones these days.

Many are obvious fakery. Some seem more interesting.

They're camera shy, so they've stopped coming around.

that old quote about magic comes to mind... so many mysteries about to get real boring.

But when someone does film something interesting and weird are we going to give it more credence or less because of this?