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 ...
Google it. There are more websites dedicated to the topic than you can shake a stick at.
Youtube. Same as everything else.
Very good camera gear can be had for cheap these days, if you look around. A lot of today’s digital cameras also do video, and the quality is surprisingly good.
I think the reason there were so many sitings in the 30s was because it was a pivotal moment in human history, truly a “will this species be good or evil?” moment, and so we got looked in on.
I think that our brains can’t comprehend that sort of technology and that’s why our eyes/phones can’t detect the stuff all the time.
I think it was because cameras dropped in price and increased in convenience enough to be commonplace items owned by regular people. That had a lot to do with the rise of popular outlaws in the same era too, many were self documenting with their new fangled pocket cameras.
"Flying saucers" didn't begin to appear until a sighting in 1947(ish?) when the description was first used.
They are out there...watching.
Aliens are such pervs
Because they are not there, I have always wanted to shoot one.
We are but one small patch in their universal garden.
We are but one small patch in their universal garden.>>>>>>>>>>>>
I am ready for a tour. (grin)
Have blueprint, looking for investors...
I wonder if he ever built it?
Notice that both the saucers and cigars had a major decline then. Coinciding with Prohibition.
The term flying saucer was coined then (near Mount Rainier, by a pilot that saw something while flying). I figure folks saw something similar, but nobody came up with a name that stuck?
There’s good one and bad ones, just like on earth. :-)
Alien Identities by Richard Thompson has writings of people seeing ufos long before the 20th century.
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