"How can you possibly think they are the same thing? "
They're not saying they're teh same thing at all. They ARE however saying that they are a fast moving and extremely unusual and rare occurrence. Like a UFO sighting is, not that the two events are identical. Yet hundreds and hundreds of people saw the same thing and recorded it (with a variety of quality of results). But a massive quantity recorded quality images and video.
if a UFO sighting happened now, it is (blindingly obvious just statistically) that the chance of a shot of it being captured (well or otherwise) is astronomically higher (vastly more prevalent cameras on hand) and also with a higher chance of a quality image (greater availability of good quality equipment.
So we may not get many more images of UFO's that allow us to clearly identify the thing, but we should at the very least get many hundreds more blurry, or indistinct images. Yet we don't. Because the kind of lack of understanding that made people think an object was a UFO has been largely educated away and the kind of photographic accident that could otherwise produce them has been reduced.
Also, the people that say birds are hard to capture- really? It's not at all hard to take a picture of a bird that is recognisably a bird. It's harder to take a picture of a bird that is really good, admittedly, but recognisable (which is the minimum bar for UFO images)? Not at all hard if enough people with cameras are there, which is what is likely these days.
The biggest barrier to the bird argument is... video. most cameras take video and while it may be harder to get a still shot of a bird, getting video of is is pretty damned easy. Yet it doesn't exist of UFO sightings.
Source: ufos-and-aliens.blogspot.com
