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 ...
Yup, the ancients saw ‘em too. Did you ever read “Alien Identities”? Author draws parallels with ancient Sanskrit texts.
https://www.amazon.com/Alien-Identities-Ancient-Insights-Phenomena/dp/0963530917/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1488602266&sr=8-1&keywords=alien+identities
Fascinating topic.
Back in the late 1950s, it was common to see cars with tailfins. Now it’s pretty rare.
UFO styling changes over time as well.
Since most happen in the United States it’s likely due to the high number of airplanes in the sky combined with unknown military aircraft.
Sometimes a cigar is just an alien spacecraft.
But if your name is Monica...
Two years later, we still haven’t seen photos of ufos, aliens, big foot and a honest democrat on the internet.
You're not looking very hard. There are hundreds of them, but everyone is so jaded they just assume they all are fake. Go to youtube.com and put in UFO. There are 11,200,000 results.
As for there is no censorship of photos on the internet...bwahahahahahaha!!!!
NOTHING get disseminated on the internet unless the powers that be ALLOW it to be disseminated.
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