The trend of UFO sightings follows revolutions in photography. There’s been spikes in the amount of them when cameras became widespread and photos were easier to develop, when cameras became digital, when photo-manipulation software came about, and this next one will be because machine learning-based video generation is becoming increasingly sophisticated.
I have just assumed any UFO footage that is more than a fuzzy light that may just be something very small and close to the camera is faked. I mean, the videos where you very clearly see an alien craft (or aliens) are obviously bullshit CGI. And since no real alien craft exists (or, at least no actual photos or video exist for an AI to train on), the AI’s shit will still look CGI or painted.