> With almost every one carrying smartphones we should be seeing a lot more high resolution videos of these objects.

This is a well meaning take but it’s not a good scientific argument. It’s correlation, but doesn’t say which way the arrow of causation is pointing.

Suppose the phenomenon being observed is cloaking tech. By definition, it’s something that is forever on the edge of what photon-based digital recording devices can observe, remaining consistently “blurry” despite massive increase in quantity and quality of recording devices.