Submitted 1 year ago by TwoPiece@lemmy.world to [deleted]
It occurred to me while reading about UFO whistleblower news. Why do the majority of UFO things occur in the United States rather than Russia, China, and other countries?
Schizos, opioids, conspiracy nutjobs, lead poisoning and low education multiplied by spiritual bankruptcy. Deny it all you want, Yanks, but it’s true.
Religion is missing. You believe a guy walked on water, based on a book, written by goat fuckers 2000 years ago, you’ll believe just about anything.
Because the major export product of the United States is American culture. UFO/alien abduction/government cover-ups are kinda baked into American popular culture at this point. Just the idea that the government is simultaneously inconvenient yet able to successfully hide far reaching evidence of alien visitation is as American as baseball and apple pie
I’ve no doubt people are looking up at the night sky all over the world and seeing things that they think are possibly alien craft. I’ve also no doubt that there are stories and folklore about abductions in every country on earth. But American culture is insidious and infects just about everything. This forces every other event to be reframed in reference to the American UFO phenomenon.
Because most of the crazy lunatics are in the US?
Idk, isn’t lunatics eveywhere?
The loudest and most confident lunatics are there
We set ours on a pedestal and give them a megaphone though.
Sure, but we have a huge chunk of the country inhabited mostly by tumbleweeds and people with less-than-awesome education. Plus, the concept of Area 51 has been around so long and has been so prolific it’s been constantly referenced in the mainstream, from Scooby-Doo to Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater.
It is just that the lunatics in the US have better internet and media access than most.
It’s a combination of the US being a large country, and being full of idiots and quacks.
The short answer is that it doesn’t. I think some of the most compelling cases I’ve seen have come out of South America, east Asia, and Europe.
The long answer (is really just speculation on my part) the US dumps so much money into defense that the citizens don’t have healthcare, education, or decent social services. The USA is the richest nation on earth and many billions of dollars spent on defense are classified or unaccounted for. It seems likely to me that the US is one of the only nations with a program in place to study any recovered craft so any of our allies would likely send materials/craft to the US to be studied.
Here’s a fun website that shows just how bonkers US military spending is compared to the rest of the world. Click the “Charts” tab under the maps for a clearer picture of what’s going on. ourworldindata.org/military-personnel-spending
Yes some more instruction for the lazy. Go to charts then scroll over to the military expenditure. If you look through all the charts you’ll see that the only other nation that rivals US military spending is China.
The real answer is that it doesn’t; you simply hear about it more. The other superpowers who are flying super-sonic jets around all day are much more secretive and if you think the retribution is bad here let me tell you it is worse in China or Russia. Also, people see these things with their naked eye all the time. Seriously, drive out to the mid-west and just look at the sky at night. You will see them up there, making their 90 degree turns and all. But the stigma is really so bad within our culture that people just don’t talk about it, and light pollution is so bad in the cities that you can’t see the sky anywhere near one.
Usa’s society is very susceptible to conspiracy theories in general, and the UFO story is one. The question whether there are actually aliens or not, steps back behind the conspiracy accusation against government/secret services/etc.
This is an interesting point. I know the military pushed the narrative back in the 50s about UFOs to hide their military tech and it snowballed (successfully?) from there.
Does the Chinese populace have an attraction toward conspiracy theories or UFOs?
Does the Chinese populace have an attraction toward conspiracy theories or UFOs?
No, not at all.
If you pull back all the layers of this onion you will most likely find out its just humans manipulating a situation to fund secret projects and funnel money into private corporations. It happens elsewhere as well but mostly under other different veils.
My theory… Lead pipes and general high level of heavy metals in the environment, especially in the areas many of these sightings happen in…
Or idk aliens maybe…
UFOlogy is huge in Brazil. They have a lot of famous “incidents”, google Varginha alien and you’ll see what I mean.
I’m not a believer at all, I just happen to know about it cause I lived there for a while and one of my coworkers was a UFO nut.
You know why. It requires stupid people.
You watch movies made in the us
Because the USA is the true center of the universe. Duh./s
Possibly because the US defense industry dwarfs the rest of the world and is constantly testing new technology that can be confused for UFOs. Russia and China, while also having large defense industries, are nowhere near what the US spends.
We call it the F-16 Flying Saucer. Spins 360° to no-scope the target. Barf bags cost extra.
Because it’s propaganda created by the US government. You should be asking yourself why is the government working so hard to distract you? What are they trying to hide? It’s not aliens I can promise you that much.
It would exist without the gov. The gov would likely love to not have to deal with idiots constantly badgering it to reveal “secrets”.
Where I live, people believe supernatural stuff more than UFO stuff. So when they see something weird, the first thing in their mind would be ghosts instead of aliens.
I think its simply because we have a larger active military along with a freer media/speech. When you constantly have military jets in the air, ships on the sea, and satellites in space the chances of catching edge cases is just higher.
with a freer media/speech.
lol
America has a lot, but not free media :)
It’s a cultural thing? Maybe there are a disproportionate number of alien believers in the US so they are more likely to attribute odd sightings to aliens.
We even have conventions!
Primary stargate is in Colorado so that's where the Goa'uld would strike first
Luckily we still have O’Neill!
Because it has become an almost normal thing now to assume alien ufos and conspiracies are real in the US. Reports of UFOs though have gone down since everyone has a phone camera though. You don’t just have a single guy making a shitty 16mm film of a grainy blob of light.
There’s also the fact that mainstream news in most countries consist of 50% local and 50% US news.
Well this is this right here is some “Shit Americans say”.
No, no it isn’t. Fuck right off with this bullshit.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but I’m talking from experience watching European tv news, especially during the election cycle.
We don’t have fae shit in the US
The rest of the world is just jealous of our alien friends that sells us advanced aircraft in exchange for drugs from Mexico and Columbia.
One of the biggest events was in Varginha, Brazil.
The US has Hollywood and the rest of the world watches our movies significantly more than we watch theirs. The country who makes the alien movie gets to decide where the aliens are going to make contact. We also have some of the loudest conspiracy theorists but that might just be a bias because I’m from here so obviously they’re who I’d hear.
Why does all of this tree falling stuff take place mostly when people are around?
A list of countries ranked by gullibility would solve this riddle.
Generally others think aliens are probably already between us since we are not that special for being top specie on universe history.
So aliens are not a big deal
Interestingly, there’s a strong argument that we are one of the first, at least locally.
Firstly, an infinite amount of time hasn’t passed. Time actually started at the big bang (Asking what was before is akin to asking what is north of the north pole).
The big bang also didn’t create any heavy elements, these required stars to produce. The first generation of stars could not have supported life. Later generations of star each have more heavy elements available. These allow for the formation of rocky planets. Our sun is in the earlier phase of this.
This leaves 2 questions. How long for life to evolve (all the way to technological intelligence)? And how easy is interstellar travel?
Life on earth seemed to pop up almost as soon as it could. That could be normal, or it could be us winning the lottery on the first play. As for evolution speed, we have no clue for comparison.
The 2nd is the critical one. As it stands, interstellar travel seems limited to the speed of light. This, and the cast energy requirements make interstellar travel and colonisation difficult. If a local species developed this ability, it is quite likely they reached us before now, and colonisated earth. The fact we can trace our evolution shows this likely didn’t happen. The chances of such a species turning up in the window of time we are in, is almost zero. The fact we exist, without alien overseers is evidence we have won the race, at least locally.
Yeah, aliens or Earth, like who cares? /s
Aliens amongst us? That is preposterous! Who told you this nonsens, give me there names. Seriously, they need to be dealt with.
jesterraiin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Consider these possibilities:
PotjiePig@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Adding to this:
America is often the voice of media, being the home of, Hollywood, reality TV as well as the loudest voices on the internet it’s natural that we perceive that to be the home of Alien stories.
Being a ‘wealthy’ country: often a higher employment rate leads to an increase in extra curricular hobbies. Countries with less time to focus on things other than work will also have less time to expand on other interests. This can have a spin off effect of increased time spent day dreaming about lights in the sky.
America is a very new country. There’s lots to of vast open nothingness to explore. Considered a ‘frontier’. The concept of unexplored territory and unclaimed space of mystery is very much more engrained in American culture, unlike say anywhere in Europe where every square inch is claimed and has a city within an hour’s drive. All that empty nothingness with strange lights on the horizon can lead to more mysterious musings of what they might be.
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 1 year ago
It's the same reason all the aliens Doctor Who fights are always attacking Britain
Thavron@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
An small criticism about your third point is the fact that the world isn’t the USA and Europe. There are many areas in the world with vast open areas. I do agree that in combination with the other factors it makes sense.