MayflowerMadamAn excellent comment at G.P. explains that when people are confronted with something unknown, threatening, and which doesn’t fit into their belief system they don’t reach for their phone, they freeze as their mind tries to figure out a fight or flight response, but is frozen due to the novelty and danger (fear-provoking) of the situation.
Just think — if you walked into your backyard some night to see the fireflies (or whatever) and instead were confronted with 8 or 9 foot tall humanoids with huge eyes — you wouldn’t reach for your phone, you’d take an involuntary deep breath and then freeze.
I’m not saying these guys really saw aliens, I don’t know what happened... But the lower-brain stem mediated response described above is correct. It is not unlike “deer in headlights” syndrome (they freeze).
115 posted on 6/8/2023, 6:08:49 PM by steve86/I>
That is pretty much what happened per the Phoenix lights. Although they did not have the smart phones we have today.
As I have explained some time ago when that came up. I had a neighbor that was a retired engineer for Boeing at Mesa. It went right over his house and when his Neighbor called him out and he went out on his back deck and looked up, all he could think of is ..What the hell they got driving that thing! The lights underneath he said was the propulsion system IHO.
He died around 2010 and the family sold the getaway place here. Havent seen them since.