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I agree with you wrt a UFO. However, yes, people have 1080p on a cellphone, but unless the UFO is about 15-30 feet in front of you, the longer lenses on cellphones are mixed quality at best still. So if someone is pointing a recent "100x" phone at a UFO in the sky, the footage still isn't going to be very clear / good. It's also difficult to track these "UFOs", probably because of all sorts of interesting optical and atmospheric events even making them unidentified. But even trying to "zoom in" on a commercial plane from miles away to the extent you could make out much detail is not exactly easy, and there it's usually going in a at least in theory predictable flight path, and moving "slowly" - just the distance giving such a tiny FOV from the camera ...