{"id":5699,"date":"2025-03-25T14:20:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T14:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/i-saw-a-ufo-isnt-what-it-used-to-be-3\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T14:20:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T14:20:53","slug":"i-saw-a-ufo-isnt-what-it-used-to-be-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/i-saw-a-ufo-isnt-what-it-used-to-be-3\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI saw a UFO\u201d isn\u2019t what it used to be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cI Saw a UFO\u201d: A Changing Meaning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Does anyone else feel that the phrase \u201cI saw a UFO\u201d carries a different meaning now than it used to?<\/p>\n<p>When I was younger (I can\u2019t believe I\u2019m 55\u2014where did the time go?), saying \u201cI saw a UFO\u201d typically meant you witnessed:<\/p>\n<p>1) An actual craft\u2014like a saucer or a \u201ccigar-shaped object.\u201d Seriously, if I had a dollar for every time someone claimed to see a flying cigar\u2026<\/p>\n<p>2) A bright object moving in impossible ways. Back then, we didn\u2019t have drones; our flying toys were limited to kites shaped like bats.<\/p>\n<p>3) Landings where humanoid beings would emerge, freeze people in their cars, abduct them, share alarming messages about the environment, perform mysterious procedures, and then return them home.<\/p>\n<p>These days, it seems like everyone has had a UFO sighting. I can\u2019t help but feel a bit envious\u2014I\u2019ve yet to experience anything beyond a few photos and videos.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, those images often fail to capture the magic of a true sighting because\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\n\u201cI Saw a UFO\u201d: A Changing Meaning Does anyone else feel that the phrase \u201cI saw a UFO\u201d carries a different meaning now than it used to? When I was younger (I can\u2019t believe I\u2019m 55\u2014where did the time go?), saying \u201cI saw a UFO\u201d typically meant you witnessed: 1) An actual craft\u2014like a saucer&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/i-saw-a-ufo-isnt-what-it-used-to-be-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;\u201cI saw a UFO\u201d isn\u2019t what it used to be&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufos","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}