The number of UFO sightings per year, subdivided based on the type of object reported. Credit: sammonfort3
Posted on 03/02/2017 7:13:13 AM PST by BenLurkin
Sam Monfort – a Doctoral Candidate from the department of Human Factors & Applied Cognition at George Mason University – produced a series of visuals that illustrate the history of UFO sightings. And based on the visualized trends, some rather interesting conclusions can be drawn. The most obvious is that the geographical distribution of sightings is hardly even. For starters, reports in the USA were equal to about 2500 sightings per 10 million people.
This is almost 300 times higher than the global average. Based on individual states, the concentration of sightings was also quite interesting. Apparently, more sightings happen (per 10 million people) in the West and Northwest, with the highest numbers coming from Washington and Montana....
... But as Monfort told Universe Today via email, this may be slightly skewed because of who is collecting the information:... “A more thorough analysis might cross-reference sightings from other agencies, like MUFON.”
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[W]hen UFO sightings first began in the early 20th century, they reportedly took the form of either a sphere or a cigar-shaped object. This differs from the 1920s, when “flying saucers” began to appear, and remained the dominant trend throughout World War II and the Cold War era. And ever since the 1990s – what Monfort refers to as “post-internet” era – the most common UFO sightings took the form of bright lights.
“If I had to guess, I’d say it was a combination of factors,” said Monfort. “Like I mentioned in the blog, it seems a lot more plausible that someone would see strange lights in the sky than a flying object with a concrete shape (like a saucer). Seeing a shape implies that the object is pretty close to you, “and if it’s that close why didn’t you take a video of it?”
(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...
Ping!
The denial of phenomenon has gone statistical. LOL
Pap. All of it.
I’m just trying to figure out why the cigar flying aliens stopped visiting Earth. Did they get bored with us?
No silly. They built underground bases in Antarctica and are now here permanently.
They didn't get bored, they read the handwriting on the wall when all the anti-smoking signs went up.
I was wondering that too.
I haven't seen a Cigar Craft since about 1958-59.
I wonder if it could have anything to do with the Cuban Missile Crisis/Embargo?
I’m just trying to figure out why the cigar flying aliens stopped visiting Earth. Did they get bored with us?
I blame Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinski.
One of our younger relatives is a very intelligent, conservative and cynical teenager.
Two years ago, she noted, “There are probably at least a billion smart phones around the world with cameras taking photos of everything 24/7.
With the internet, there was no censorship of photos, yet there were no photos of ufos, aliens, big foot and a honest democrat on the internet.
Two years later, we still haven’t seen photos of ufos, aliens, big foot and a honest democrat on the internet.
And the aliens have stopped kidnapping and probing people since the last backwoods redneck came out and bragged about it.........
They lost the war with the light people in 1940.
Cigar flying aliens quit coming so frequently because they couldn’t blend in and hide in plain sight as easily when zeppelin usage on earth declined. It’s the same reason we have so many sightings of jet airliner flying aliens today.
Freegards
Photos and videos of UFOs are uploaded to the internet every single day. There are websites devoted to the daily profusion of new material.
Where are they?
Look, we don’t drive Model T Fords anymore. Who’s to say the aliens don’t get new models from time to time. Why fly an old cigar when you can have shiney new bright lights?
Nah, we probably became to evil. Satan is here, you know. Love C.S. Lewis’s space trilogy.
“Photos and videos of UFOs are uploaded to the internet every single day. There are websites devoted to the daily profusion of new material.”
I’ve tried using a smartphone to capture a certain reoccurring event in my area that many people also have witnessed. The smartphone I have doesn’t have the ability to capture good images or video of it, I’ve tried. I don’t have any other means to capture video or take pictures, but I’ve debated investing in such because I’m almost certain I’ll see these ‘things’ again.
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