>>11376184 Along time ago some people discovered you could make money off gullible, uneducated and ignorant people with little or no critical thinking skills. The after centuries of hoaxes, superstitions, snake oil, occult shenanigans and voodoo we came to the modern age. Little had changed. The sale of books, magazine subscriptions, videos and tickets to /x/ tier conferences now supplemented the sale of bottles of elixir full of magical healing properties. The start of modern astronomy and the space age opened up new possibilities to sell even more confirmation bias to those wanting to believe anything other than facts, evidence and science, which for many were concepts way too hard to grasp. Along came cheap video cameras and soon many discovered the delights of reflections, back lights, props and blurry images in creating images which they claimed were caused by objects of extra terrestrial origin. The charlatans were delighted. Here was a new source of income. The sale of books, magazine subscriptions, videos and conference tickets continued unabated.
