As someone who has more than a peripheral interest in ufology, the periods when my interest wanes is usually fairly short because there are so many facets to the field as a whole that I can switch gears to something I find interesting and almost always find a link to ufology in it someplace.
More recently, I've also been repeatedly surprised by the older cases that not unlike yourself, I had once set aside as outdated and largely irrelevant. These days, the more I review some of the older cases, the more I think that the information there is often grossly undervalued. I'm not sure exactly what you are into, but one example I like to give of how my interest in the old cases was rekindled involves the Classic book by E.J. Ruppelt The Report On Unidentified Flying Objects. I was in the process of transcribing it for online reading on our website when I came across a report about a USAF jet pilot who was sent up to intercept a UFO that had been picked up on radar..
Back then the jet age had yet to mature and one of finest aircraft the USAF had at the time was called the F-86 Super Sabre. Now that doesn't mean much to most readers so I created a link to a brief article on that aircraft. It was a transonic jet, and looking up what that word meant led me to visualize one of the most riveting UFO incidents I've ever read. Part of the reason for that is that because we're so used to modern jets that we don't appreciate what those early airplanes were like to fly in.
The F-86 was one of the last fly by the seat-of-your-pants single-seat jet fighters, and although they could break the sound barrier, they didn't do it gracefully and riding one of those things in a power dive must have been one crazy ride. The excitement comes when you take a few minutes to visualize just what that must have been like ... Start by imagining yourself at 40,000 feet ... see the ground way down there? ... Now imagine yourself strapped into a single seat jet screaming out of the sky toward the ground at the speed of sound ...
"The second pilot, who was going down to 5,000 feet, was just beginning to pull out when he noticed a flash below and ahead of him. He flattened out his dive a little and headed toward the spot where he had seen the light. As he closed on the spot he suddenly noticed what he first thought was a weather balloon. A few seconds later he realized that it couldn't be a balloon because it was staying ahead of him. Quite an achievement for a balloon, since he had built up a lot of speed in his dive and now was flying almost straight and level at 3,000 feet and was traveling "at the Mach."
Again the pilot pushed the nose of the F-86 down and started after the object. He closed fairly fast, until he came to within an estimated 1,000 yards. Now he could get a good look at the object. Although it had looked like a balloon from above, a closer view showed that it was definitely round and flat -- saucer-shaped. The pilot described it as being "like a doughnut without a hole."
As his rate of closure began to drop off, the pilot knew that the object was picking up speed. But he pulled in behind it and started to follow. Now he was right on the deck.
About this time the pilot began to get a little worried. What should he do?"
Now if that teaser doesn't relieve some of the boredom ... I dunno what will ... So how does this story end? Well I'm sure you know because you're so familiar with all these boring old cases ... right 
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A clip of an F-86
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