Where Have Daylight Disks Gone?

Greetings. Once upon a time, back in the heady days of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization and the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, the reporting of daylight disks was a relatively common occurrence. In fact, the reporting of such events happened on a worldwide basis, with people all around the planet seeing UFOs that fit into the daylight disk category. Coral and Jim Lorenzen of ARPO received daylight disk sighting reports year after year, as did the staffs at NICAP, and the numerous other lesser-known civilian investigative efforts. The McMinnville event of May 1950 and the Rex Heflin event of August 1965 are prime historical examples of daylight disks. 

As the decades slowly passed, many other categories of UFOs began to grow in reported numbers, with nocturnal lights reported by witnesses on a more consistent basis. By the late 1980's, when the Mutual UFO Network became the sole civilian investigative organization in operation, the situation had completely changed, with daylight disks having become amongst the least reported type of UFO. To be sure, we still had daylight sightings like the Stephenville, Texas events of January 2008 and the Chicago O'Hare event of November 2006, but the phenomena had become a far more nocturnal enigma, with nocturnal lights and other such similar occurrences being the norm.

Similarly to the lack of modern landing cases, which I wrote about several months ago, the overall decline in the reporting of daylight disks adds to the mystery of unidentified flying objects. The specific reasons for the decline escape me, but I am willing to speculate a bit to consider some possibilities. Have media influences; movies, television shows, etc..., had a direct effect on how the general public, specifically witnesses, views the UFO problem? If we assume that a few UFO reports are examples of non-terrestrial visitation, which I am admittedly not comfortable doing, has there been a change in the technology people are witnessing? Have daylight disks always been a part of the UFO situation, but other aspects have become more visible as the decades have passed? I have not the foggiest idea what the ultimate answer is, but one possibility sticks in the recesses of my mind. Perhaps nothing has changed with the phenomena, the only change being what witnesses have managed to see and report. 

As a result of the reticence of witnesses to report their events, the information available for researchers to examine and investigate is sketchy and incomplete. This incomplete data set makes the declaration of patterns a tricky proposition, since there is so much we just don't know. Our beliefs and thoughts about how the phenomena has changed may be completely off target, and that just adds to the enigma, adds to the mystery. Logically that means that the title and subject of this entire blog may be unnecessary, for there may not have been any change in the phenomena. No change at all.

Thank you for your time and consideration.