Why yes..... in fact remember what I do, both for a living and for scientific curiosity.  I work in that field, Gerry and I would definitely know if any person had imaged one.  Remember, all professionals and most amateurs do their visual work using a CCD camera.  They are special cameras that are cooled to below freezing, so they can take extra long exposures.  I'm talking HOURS long exposures in some cases.  Usually, these exposures are made up of  multiple shorter exposures (from 15 seconds to tens of minutes) that are taken sequentially (and automatically) and "stacked" so that the available photons can be added together to produce the desired result.

Yes, amateurs..... MANY amateurs use these cameras and produce stunning works.  Other amateurs use them to produce scientifically useful datasets.  If ANY of them had ever picked up "something wonderful" the government wouldn't have time to stop it before it was published all over the place.  The same is true of the professional.  You have not clue as to how fast "wonderful" images, whether they be just beautiful or whether they be scientifically significant data sets. get passed around...... no idea at all.

Not a single..... not one..... of my colleagues has ever seen anything like an extraterrestrial  UFO.  If they had, we would all know it.  THey would have the evidence in hand.... why?  Becasue they ALL use ccd's, not the eyeball to produce their results.  The old-time view of an astronomer at an eyepiece is a thing of the long distant past.  Everything they do is "recorded" in film or digital format, from first-light to last.  I have access to all of that data, as well.