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We’re Not Saying It’s Aliens Because It’s Not Aliens. But Check Out These UFO Data Visualizations
Universe Today ^ | 02/28/2017 | Matt Williams

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.”

...

[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 ...


TOPICS: UFO's
KEYWORDS: ufo; ufos
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To: Grampa Dave
Where are they?

Google it. There are more websites dedicated to the topic than you can shake a stick at.

21 posted on 03/02/2017 8:19:19 AM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Grampa Dave

Youtube. Same as everything else.


22 posted on 03/02/2017 8:22:10 AM PST by discostu (There are times when all the world's asleep, the questions run too deep, for such a simple man.)
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To: Carthego delenda est

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.


23 posted on 03/02/2017 8:23:42 AM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: discostu

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.


24 posted on 03/02/2017 8:25:59 AM PST by Ueriah
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To: Ueriah

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.


25 posted on 03/02/2017 8:45:01 AM PST by discostu (There are times when all the world's asleep, the questions run too deep, for such a simple man.)
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To: BenLurkin
"This differs from the 1920s, when “flying saucers” began to appear..."

"Flying saucers" didn't begin to appear until a sighting in 1947(ish?) when the description was first used.

26 posted on 03/02/2017 8:47:35 AM PST by Hatteras
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To: Candor7

They are out there...watching.


27 posted on 03/02/2017 3:19:03 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: Fred Nerks

Aliens are such pervs


28 posted on 03/02/2017 3:24:34 PM PST by bar sin·is·ter
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To: Fred Nerks

Because they are not there, I have always wanted to shoot one.


29 posted on 03/02/2017 4:50:32 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7

We are but one small patch in their universal garden.


30 posted on 03/02/2017 5:12:08 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: Fred Nerks

We are but one small patch in their universal garden.>>>>>>>>>>>>

I am ready for a tour. (grin)


31 posted on 03/02/2017 5:15:04 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: BenLurkin
Alien Guy photo alien guy_zps8wyfex3x.png
32 posted on 03/02/2017 5:30:35 PM PST by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: Candor7
TESLA:

Have blueprint, looking for investors...

33 posted on 03/02/2017 5:41:57 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: Fred Nerks

I wonder if he ever built it?


34 posted on 03/03/2017 12:01:39 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: BenLurkin

Notice that both the saucers and cigars had a major decline then. Coinciding with Prohibition.


35 posted on 03/03/2017 12:06:45 AM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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To: Hatteras

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?


36 posted on 03/03/2017 12:10:18 AM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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To: BenLurkin

37 posted on 03/03/2017 12:41:00 AM PST by BlueDragon (my kinfolk had to fight off wagon burnin' scalp taking Comanches, reckon we could take on a few more)
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To: Fred Nerks

There’s good one and bad ones, just like on earth. :-)


38 posted on 03/03/2017 3:27:00 PM PST by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: Fred Nerks
[W]hen UFO sightings first began in the early 20th century

Alien Identities by Richard Thompson has writings of people seeing ufos long before the 20th century.

39 posted on 03/03/2017 3:45:47 PM PST by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: little jeremiah; Candor7

ALIENS AND UFO's IN ANCIENT ART

40 posted on 03/03/2017 5:11:56 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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