Reported UFO sightings. Aliens are very interested in the USA

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• PunchingBag@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You know, I do wonder what the map of cell phone and camera sales would look like overlaid onto this...

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  • Alto@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You tend to get less reports of things in areas with much, much lower population densities. The map is as much a population density map as it is a UFO sighting one

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    • VonReposti@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There’s an XKCD for that

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    • squiblet@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      it's basically a population map combined with communication access

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• OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Our senses and brains are remarkably easy to fool. Stage magicians even make a career out of making us think we’ve seen things we haven’t.

  How many times have you seen a shadow, or a silhouette and thought it was a person/monster/whatever? Our brains are wired to see familiar things in unfamiliar circumstances, and it bases it on things we’re familiar with. UFO sightings follow predictable patterns based on what style or shape of “alien ship” are biggest in pop culture at the time. We conjure up monsters we saw in movies, or read about in books or magazines.

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• voidhearts@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lmao is it just me or is Hawaii lit the fuck up

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  • suction@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How could it „be just you“?

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    • voidhearts@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I guess a better phrasing would be “do my eyes deceive me or is the entirety of Hawaii lit the fuck up”

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• SignullGone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A more accurate title for this post could be: “English-Based UFO Reporting Organizations Primarily Receive Reports from, Unsurprisingly, English-Speaking Countries.”

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• m3t00@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  cause : effect; believing in things that don’t exist, seeing things that don’t exist. a casually religious friend says he’s not worried about dying. expects to just wake up in heaven

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• SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Americans are very interested in aliens, and you’ll note the heat map correlates with wealth (and thus smartphone access).

  Some of the more interesting UAP encounters are entirely non-US

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  • paintbucketholder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    and you’ll note the heat map correlates with wealth (and thus smartphone access).

    It doesn’t, or else there would be a lot more sightings all over Europe, South Korea and Japan, Australia and New Zealand, Israel, Saudi Arabia and various emirates, and a good junk of China.

    Also, smartphones didn’t exist for the first 101 years of the reporting time span.

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    • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It most definitely still correlates with wealth, regardless of that factors

      Regardless, simple google searches of “UAP sightings South America/Asia/India/ etc” will yield many results - this is not a US phenomnon

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• dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Aliens from outer space” sighted frequently over areas of the world where fictional media depicting aliens from outer space is widespread. Hmm. Shocker.

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  • Nfntordr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s almost like we’ve conditioned ourselves to equate UFO = other worldly being.

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• SunburyStudios@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We have a lot of nuclear weapons........

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  • PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not surprising at all. There are enough nukes to destroy more than the 1 planet all the nukes are on. Of course this is going to raise concern in tyhe intergalactic community especially with how backwards our politics are.

    They probably see Earth the same way the rest of the world sees North Korea.

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• kaito@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We don’t have bad video cameras here

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  • ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Would be interesting to divide these numbers by expected camera availability. Consider how many more cameras are on any US military vehicle (there’s at least 6 on every tank, for example)

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• WolfhoundRO@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Also the map of countries with black site projects

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  • nothing@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And very coincidentally and unrelated: gigantic military spending that unexpectedly can’t be fully accounted for. Strange!

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• TwoGems@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Highest report of mentally ill population spotted

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• joel_feila@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  they do the most interesting buttholes

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• QuazarOmega@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s just where they got appointed to film the blockbusters

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• AngryBear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Its probably not entirely fair distribution you’re seeing. This starts way back in 1906? A country like China didn’t even have any tech growth till around the year 2000 basically. They don’t even have an open policy of sharing such things. Russia did for the longest time, but it’s limited due to the population distribution (basically 80% lives near the western border) so an enormous amount of ground is never watched let alone “stuff” being reported… let alone that “stuff” getting out to media or the public.

  The EU has always had a more open policy regarding UFO’s, especially Belgium shared a lot of footage over the years. But also much of South America openly shared stuff for the longest time. It’s only been the USA that turned into a “joke” but due to the paranoia people get whenever a government starts to deny things they first admitted too, people start to report anything and everything.

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• TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Damn, I guess they really are going to land on the White House lawn.

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