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Reported UFO sightings. Aliens are very interested in the USA

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨rr7@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    THEY’RE GONNA TERK ER JERBS!

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    • TIEPilot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      THE ALIENS ARE COMING RIGHT FOR US!

      BLAM

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      • suction@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They’re going right for the jugular!

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    • z3n0x@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ogoodbodogooooo!

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  • Alto@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    IIRC this was a study done by a American company.

    There are tons of UFO sighting in plenty of non-NA or EU countries such as Brazil and South Africa

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    • hungry_freaks_daddy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      ^ this is true.

      This post is insanely misleading.

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      • darvocet@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        ^ this guy is right.

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      • account_2@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Like every shit post about aliens lately. Shit got old like immediately. Wake me up when we have actual evidence. Not just abductive reasoning.

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    • Here_in_Malaysia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’d like to add that for many countries like mine, a UFO sighting wouldn’t even register as “unidentified” or having an outer space origin. The locals would attribute it to something religious instead.

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      • theangryseal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Berrrrr. VWOOP! widdle widdle, shooom. Pew, pew, pew. Buh luh luh luh luh luh. So sayeth the lord. Amen.

        And now we paint ourselves green and dance in his shiny circular beamy holy goodness.

        You ain’t gotta give, but I’m taking donations. If your neighbor don’t drop a dollarydoo in the plate, don’t judge him too harshly.

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    • quicksand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I was wondering why the sightings were dominated by English speaking countries, this may be the reason. Thanks.

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  • Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is a heatmap of English speakers.

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    • Mr_Blott@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you think the most English speakers live in the US and UK I’ve got some very surprising news for you

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      • Dxthegod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        As a Canadian, I must say:

        Bonjour

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Most native speakers live in the U.S. and the UK based on population numbers. We’re talking over 400 million native speakers.

        But as far non-native speakers, Google tells me that’s India. But most English speakers in India don’t speak it as their first language. They learned it in school, they didn’t grow up speaking it at home.

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  • ArugulaZ@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or maybe we're just really bored and stupid.

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  • ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think its a mix of idiots everywhere, and the government secretly testing prototype aircraft. The idiots see the prototype aircraft, don’t recognize it, and immediately go “eyljuhns!”

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  • AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This looks more like a map of any English speaking news source I would see online. I mean I see us politics and us topics on lemmy and my local newspaper all the time, but hardly ever hear anything from far away places like Ghana, Romania, south America, middle east or south east asia unless in specifically look for it on sole lesser known sites.

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    • KevonLooney@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The official language of Ghana is English. They have plenty of news online, you just don’t know about it.

      It’s not English that aliens are attracted to, we are imagining them. UFOs appeared when humans gained the ability to fly. Their ships got faster and more maneuverable as ours did. We are literally just seeing illusions, many of which we create.

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    • MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure they polled English speakers. As someone who likes speculating about aliens, I was blown away when I discovered how common it is for people to claim to see aliens in countries like Brazil. You just don’t hear about it because most of it is in Portuguese. I wouldn’t be too surprised if most countries had similar levels of “sightings” but cultures are more geared towards people having a “huh, not my problem” kind of response, view it as some kind of religious event, or are too preoccupied with other things to notice anything strange in the sky. The result is that the map would be skewed towards countries with america-like cultures (if we assume it’s a cultural difference, then the US would appear to be the most susceptible to not only attributing unusual properties to strange sky objects, but also be the most likely to speak up about them).

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  • cc8@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Americans trying to explain why the map looks like this Image

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    • Hobo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      xkcd.com/1138/

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      • SMT42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Do you think the US has more people than all of Asia or something?

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      • the_kalash@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Irrelevant xkcd.

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  • dunestorm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is my biggest problem with believing anything alien related; how come all of the video evidence is taken on a phone camera from 2001, and the fact basically all sightings happen in the US?

    The people making this shit up have to try harder than that!

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  • mochi@lemdit.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because that’s where the freak show is.

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  • Tetra@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The USA is very interested in aliens*

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    • Nacktmull@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is the answer, close the thread.

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  • z3n0x@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And what’s that weird dividing line in the middle? Do they just stop and go: “nope, gotta focus on the East Coast, sorry bruh”?

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    • BB69@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Less people live in that line

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    • Chetzemoka@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh, you don't know about the line? Believe it or not, the line is actually real:

      "Why 80% of Americans Live East of This Line"

      https://youtu.be/wwJABxjcvUc

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      • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        For the lazy: it’s cause there is less water after than line.

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    • sebinspace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      XKCD population density maps

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  • conrad82@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When the first dinosaur bone was discovered, noone had heard about it before and people believed that bones they found before were from some animals

    After people knew about dinosaurs they started finding them other places in the world at a rapid pace. Many people thought it was all a hoax

    So you know, unless you know about them you don’t know what to report. And americans think most about aliens I guess.

    That being said, probably there aren’t secret aliens around. probably 🫣

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    • TheActualDevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So… what were they mistaking the aliens for?

      I mean, the actual verified “alien craft” in America is actually more of a “not sure what that is” grainy footage in an age where Donald Trump tweeted out classified satellite images that showed the cameras we use are actually far more advanced and show far more detail than any we knew existed. And that technology was over a decade old at the time!

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      • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        My guess is secret and experimental technologies.

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      • Wollff@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        So… what were they mistaking the aliens for?

        Ghosts. Spirits. Dragons. Or any other mythical creatures, or mythical phenomena of your choice.

        If there were aliens, those are the descriptions I would expect through most of human history. And those are the descriptions I would expect in basically all the world, almost everywhere that isn’t the US, even today.

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      • WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I think its like bigfoot / mothman etc - once someone in your area is talking about seeing a thing, it increases the likelihood you will think you saw that thing specifically next time you see something that would be otherwise unexplainable to you

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    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I have several relatives who “see” plots all the time. Every time I deal with them I get to hear about them. Bet you didn’t know that there is a plot to turn frogs gay and convert our children into drag queens.

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  • Chadarius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That is because people are morons and don’t know how cameras work. Even the military thinks things like low flying geese are some how aliens, when clearly their evidence is to the contrary. I am not saying that there aren’t aliens. They probably do exist, but the evidence we keep getting shown for it is laughable.

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  • oshaboy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Meanwhile the Netherlands chilling with the extraterrestrials.

    Maybe that’s where they got their terraforming abilities.

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  • TSUTiger@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. “Mankind.” That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can’t be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it’s fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom… Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution… but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: “We will not go quietly into the night!” We will not vanish without a fight! We’re going to live on! We’re going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!

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    • ivanafterall@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      He had his flaws, but I still think of him as our greatest president.

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    • Mrkawfee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The defining speech of President Whitmore’s tenure. Right up there with the Gettysburg address.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Between him and Morgan Freeman, the U.S. has had some really good presidents.

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  • Redex68@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Apparently, aliens are very interested in anglophone countries

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  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That all these sightings just happen to occur in the US reminds me of how I’d watch old Dr Who episodes and chuckle at how all the aliens always ended up in the same sand pit in England.

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  • Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I saw an alien. Not America.

    It was between 2010-2014 and i was recently gifted my first phone. A used Sony Ericsson w300i. Fast forward a few weeks later, i was on the roof playing with the filters on the phone camera. One of them was a Sepia filter and as tried it, i randomly pointed it toward the sky and then toward the sun. That’s when i saw small dark object hovering near the very bright sun as to hide using it. It was shaped like a sphere and seemed very far up in the sky. It was very fast, it’s movement unnatural as it was doing oval shaped circles around the sun.

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    • mriormro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wait, so you were using an old phone that had an ancient sensor? You then pointed that sensor at the sun and a dark spot showed up? Possibility at the most exposed portion of the sensor and your saying this was a UFO?

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      • Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Then why did it disappear later ? If it was an over exposed camera shouldn’t it show up every time not once ?

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    • CYCLR@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I like that someone downvoted you.

      But in all seriousness, me and a friend of mine once saw a flying object that matches your description, except it was around 4am and we were on the beach, camping. At some point, it flew into the horizon (really freaking fast, headed to a different country, so I doubt it was a drone). No drugs were involved.

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      • Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I like “the no drugs involved” part. We’re describing something we saw with our own eyes and yet is so outlandish we can only accept that people wouldn’t believe us.

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      • zaph@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        When I was a teen I was outside with my step-brother playing catch late at night in the street and we saw one. Never talked about because we felt like idiots. I still do.

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    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      People think that things like cameras and radar are perfect instruments. They can be overloaded by things like pointing them at the sun, internal reflections, radar can have false signals, etc. I once thought I saw a UFO while in a car and then realized it was just an internal reflection of a light off of the glass. It looked like it was moving super fast and everything.

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    • regeya@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ll give kind of the opposite story. An Illinois town’s PD has made the news at least twice for chasing a UFO. In the 80s they were on some TV special about unexplained events, talking about the time they chased a triangular-shaped UFO for a long time. I remember watching that, and then going to the nearby air base for an air show, complete with a triangular-shaped stealth bomber…

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_tcyQbfRo8

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    • pancakes@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I can’t tell if this is a joke or not. I mean no reasonable person would conclude aliens from a flip phone camera using filter pointed directly at the sun with one of the worst lenses ever built for a camera in history.

      I mean I laughed, so well done if that was the intent.

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      • Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If my have made someone less miserable for a few seconds then am happy i shared it.

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  • baseless_discourse@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    USA NO 1!

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  • tehnoobshow@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Let me guess, the source for this image is a US/western UFO reporting organization.

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  • aquinteros@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    they are trying to recreate the movies

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  • TheKarion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We have all the cool stuff

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    • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Your presidents and billionaires are like exotic species of really insane humans. Of course that’s interesting to aliens.

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      • hopelessbyanxiety@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Image

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  • Chickenstalker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I want ayylmao nutjobs to gb2 Reddit. Is it too much to ask? They infuriate me. I bet 100 buckaroos that these very same schizos are also Flat Earthers x QaNons.

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  • InternetTubes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s almost as if UFOs correspond to experimental high altitude projects and the bodies of quick dried astronauts from the early days that now passes up as current day pilots having some fun and trying to track low flying duck on their fast flying jets and submitting it as a UFO and trolls trying to prove how stupid the rest of society is by creating absurd claims and seeing if they fly.

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  • ox0r@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No but it 's different this time!

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  • Saneless@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Turns out they love guns

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  • MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I would like to see an overlay of “Reported Demon and Angel sightings” from the past few thousand years.

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  • Zalzabar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sad to see so many dots around newfoundland but I’m also not that surprised lol

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    • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sad to see so many dots around newfoundland but I’m also not that surprised lol

      Not a lot of people know this, but until they invent interstellar jet engines the aliens have to stop in Gander to refuel before going on to the US.

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    • Gleddified@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “No, Dean, you were just drunk again”

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  • agent_flounder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They’re still trying to find the team that crashed in Roswell.

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  • PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The United States has a big and powerful enough military to defeat god and enough nukes to do it 8 more times, of course aliens want to investigate.

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    • suction@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Speculative. Why do you assume Aliens with the technology to travel this far would see nuclear weapons as a threat to them?

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      • PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        There are presumably no physics that provide protection from extremely powerful explosions (of any kind).

        Just because you can imagine some magical force field that these hypothetical aliens might possess doesn’t mean that such a thing can actually exist.

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