In the comments to this post on thunderstorms at Climate Science.

3- Almost everybody is an electronic witness these days. Cell phone cameras, digital cameras, and camcorders are all so cheap and plentiful, that more storms get photographed and exposed to our collective visual experience than ever before.

A funny thing though about item 3, while we see lots more pictures of tornadoes and mesocyclones faster than ever, it appears that even with the glut of electronic witnesses out there, Bigfoot and UFO pictures don’t seem to be experiencing the same increase. (emphasis mine)

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