<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wincy</author><text>Hey it did turn out the giant squids were totally real though! So that’s pretty neat. When I was born less than 40 years ago it wasn’t known if they were an actual species.</text><parent_chain><item><author>oblio</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s the main thing I found funny.&lt;p&gt;Back in the day of only a handful of newspapers and of 1 camera per 1 million people (at least on the average day, the average person wouldn&amp;#x27;t lug their camera around with them), we had sightings of Yeti, Bigfoot, Nessie, El Chupacabra, etc.&lt;p&gt;Now we have the internet, an unstoppable torrent of crappy news and the mother of all tabloids, everyone has a high resolution camera in their pockets at all times, and cryptoids are all but gone.&lt;p&gt;I would have expected 16k HDR resolution photos of Yeti by now.&lt;p&gt;I feel betrayed! :-p</text></item><item><author>bob33212</author><text>So there are really two options here. Either the instruments used to detect #1 and #2 are reporting inaccurate data, OR technology far beyond what the public knows about exists and has only been seen under circumstances where no one had a high resolution camera to get a detailed picture.  #2 seems unlikely because the availably of high resolution cameras has gone up a ton in the past 10 years ( cell phones &amp;#x2F; satelites ), but a clear picture of a UFO has not shown up.</text></item><item><author>tristanj</author><text>That article completely ignores the eyewitness testimony from the navy pilots of the Tic Tac incident where they visually identify that the Tic Tac:&lt;p&gt;1) can hover a few meters above the ocean without generating rotor downwash&lt;p&gt;2) can accelerate away at 100+g&lt;p&gt;Both of those rule out any known drone or helicopter. David Fravor, one of the pilots, explains this in an interview here &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=aB8zcAttP1E&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=aB8zcAttP1E&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>NoGravitas</author><text>Looks like the dominant explanation is that some adversary is using (relatively) cheap drones to get data on the sensitivity of US Naval radar systems: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.thedrive.com&amp;#x2F;the-war-zone&amp;#x2F;40054&amp;#x2F;adversary-drones-are-spying-on-the-u-s-and-the-pentagon-acts-like-theyre-ufos&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.thedrive.com&amp;#x2F;the-war-zone&amp;#x2F;40054&amp;#x2F;adversary-drones...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;They don&amp;#x27;t even have to be all that high-tech; the US was doing similar things in the 1960s.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Radar data confirms: USS Omaha was surrounded by swarm of UFOs</title><url>https://www.mysterywire.com/ufo/ufos-swarm-uss-omaha/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>__abc</author><text>my kids ask me if I &lt;i&gt;believe&lt;/i&gt; and I tell them I used to.  However, given the HDR phone in everyones pocket for a decade+ and no photos of a ghost, alien, saucer, cryptid ?????  I am now a non believer.</text><parent_chain><item><author>oblio</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s the main thing I found funny.&lt;p&gt;Back in the day of only a handful of newspapers and of 1 camera per 1 million people (at least on the average day, the average person wouldn&amp;#x27;t lug their camera around with them), we had sightings of Yeti, Bigfoot, Nessie, El Chupacabra, etc.&lt;p&gt;Now we have the internet, an unstoppable torrent of crappy news and the mother of all tabloids, everyone has a high resolution camera in their pockets at all times, and cryptoids are all but gone.&lt;p&gt;I would have expected 16k HDR resolution photos of Yeti by now.&lt;p&gt;I feel betrayed! :-p</text></item><item><author>bob33212</author><text>So there are really two options here. Either the instruments used to detect #1 and #2 are reporting inaccurate data, OR technology far beyond what the public knows about exists and has only been seen under circumstances where no one had a high resolution camera to get a detailed picture.  #2 seems unlikely because the availably of high resolution cameras has gone up a ton in the past 10 years ( cell phones &amp;#x2F; satelites ), but a clear picture of a UFO has not shown up.</text></item><item><author>tristanj</author><text>That article completely ignores the eyewitness testimony from the navy pilots of the Tic Tac incident where they visually identify that the Tic Tac:&lt;p&gt;1) can hover a few meters above the ocean without generating rotor downwash&lt;p&gt;2) can accelerate away at 100+g&lt;p&gt;Both of those rule out any known drone or helicopter. David Fravor, one of the pilots, explains this in an interview here &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=aB8zcAttP1E&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=aB8zcAttP1E&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>NoGravitas</author><text>Looks like the dominant explanation is that some adversary is using (relatively) cheap drones to get data on the sensitivity of US Naval radar systems: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.thedrive.com&amp;#x2F;the-war-zone&amp;#x2F;40054&amp;#x2F;adversary-drones-are-spying-on-the-u-s-and-the-pentagon-acts-like-theyre-ufos&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.thedrive.com&amp;#x2F;the-war-zone&amp;#x2F;40054&amp;#x2F;adversary-drones...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;They don&amp;#x27;t even have to be all that high-tech; the US was doing similar things in the 1960s.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Radar data confirms: USS Omaha was surrounded by swarm of UFOs</title><url>https://www.mysterywire.com/ufo/ufos-swarm-uss-omaha/</url></story>