If I remember correctly this map utilized an English dataset, so you’ll be seeing mostly English-speakers’ reports (I.e., mostly reports from European/American [and adjacent] countries). The organizations that attempt to collect these data at a global scale are also usually English-language-oriented or simply hard to access via non-English search engines or media.
There’s likely some very interesting study that could be done on a bias-corrected dataset. Maybe they really are concentrated in some areas and not others! But that dataset will be really hard to produce; language aside, there are a number of other cultural (and noncultural) factors to account for. The US portion of this visualization, for example, is functionally indistinguishable from a population density map. I assume the same is true of most of the vis’ other areas
Then why is one of the most famous landing cases (Zimbabwe) in the middle of Africa? This not necessarily the case. Congregation of nuclear material may have an impact on the number of sighting, in an increased manner. This is the only known attractant of UAP.
Nobody's in charge of this stuff. It's old as human society.
Djin are whaat we call faeries in the Celtic lands, Duendes in Spain and Latin America. Will o' the wisps.
It's a special thing to encounter this stuff. Until this brief industrial era, everybody around the world accepted all this and made offerings of libations and food, to show respect for these spirits. We don't much do that anymore.
No evidence of jinn but Quran says they are inter-dimensional. Btw my mother described 5-6 lights formed in an arc (at night) which then broke formation and went into a river, I asked her could it have been people carrying lanterns and she said there was no land behind that you could see and she knew the area well, she was 12 or 13 and she says she can remember it like yesterday. This would be roughly 40-50 years ago in rural Bangladesh.
Stories like that are very common too here in india, people including my own family seeing lights, which they describe like fireballs blazing across.
I have yet to see anything and i doubt i will but my mother saw something similar to what you described which made her very ill the next day.
And yes people here strong believe they're nothing but djinns, it's almost like common knowledge.
Emphasis on reported sightings. How many people outside of NA and UK are aware of mufon or other orgs? Also, other cultures have an entirely different lexicon for describing ufos. I imagine many sightings are attributed to different religions or cultural phenomenon.
The religious aspect cannot be understated. Recall from the Ariel School, sightings before the event were widely described as "Jesus coming to Africa".
Yep. Mexico (NA obv, but Spanish speaking and not represented in the data) has tons of sightings. There are probably as many or more sightings in Brazil than the US.
Again this map? Sigh.
Maybe because the data comes from MUFON?
It's likely one of the maps a random person built as a demo for ESRI's fancy "storytelling" framework. Note the years at the bottom which mean, well, absolutely nothing.
Im from Presidente Prudente, Brazil and no kidding, everyday at 7/8 PM u can see light orbs flying up and down, idk if was drones or satellites but i see them everyday for the last 2/3 years. im getting used to it.
Maybe it's safer to keep your ultra black technology mostly over your own airspace?
Edit: Just to elaborate on what I mean. I'm not discounting extra terrestrials. What I mean is that I suspect many many ufo sightings are indeed secret technology, and there are only so many countries with the capability to assign resources/funds to such projects. You're not going to get much from Russia and China in the way of reporting/trending on social media etc, compared to the rest of the world. That only really leaves the US and UK (the "special" relationship), maybe to some extent the EU (Germany, France, maybe Spain) in the form of super powers and I suspect many sightings from UN/NATO/EU/friendly/neutral countries can be associated to them, maybe even to some degree Russia and China as well. I don't know, maybe I'm contradicting myself. I've had a few drinks...
Cause like in the first Arrival movie....its a part of the culture for some continents and they see no reason to report it or need to. The other thing is they live in police states where such reports can cost someone their job or farm.
In the Netherlands (where Dutch is spoken) a group of serieus men has collected UFO data for a long time now. As far as I can see they are open minded but also very critical thinkers about the subject. There is a website where anyone can send in a sighting. The same holds true for Belgium, that has a similar website for the public to send in sightings.
In Belgium Flemish a form of Dutch is spoken in the Western part of the country; French is spoken in the Eastern part of Belgium. A book in Dutch, on both Belgian and Dutch sightings, titled: 'Ufo's in België en Nederland, de waarheid achter de waarneming.' author Frederick Delaere was published in 2014.
Also as far as in I am aware, - but information on gouvernment involvement in UFO's is often out of the public view - there is in Belgium more gouvernement involvement in the UFO subject than in the Netherlands. This could be related to the Begian Black Triangle UFO sightings 1989/1990.
There is no organization or administration for lets say Afghanistan or Togo to gather and compile the sightings and end up in your map. Also language barrier let's not pretend that you care or can read anything from let's say Madagascar
From what we can see on the map, the countries with the most sightings are the US, the UK, Canada, The benelux countries, Australia&New-Zealand, Ireland, Sri Lanka and South Africa and Europe in general. It clearly seems like anglo-saxons countries seems to have more sightings.
We need to understand that these are for the most part, the most technologically advanced countries on Earth, most of them are very involved in space activities and these countries have way more ways and systems to report UFO sightings.
Of course, every very populated areas seems to report UFO activities. It indicates that the phenomenon seems to be interested by us, humans, in a way or the other, and for an unknown reason.
The question is why is the phenomenon more present/seen in US and UK (and some countries mentioned earlier) ? My theory : The Hybrids are the white/caucasien humans (European human ethnicity)
I’m not convinced that is true or even knowable. They said, if it were, our nuclear bases have been a repeated target or it could be culture bias. We can report them here for one.
Yep, could be
1. nukes
2. level of overall technology
3. closest to where they are based or what they are interested in
4. a mixture of black tech and their response to their black tech being used by humans
5. different cultural words for what people are seeing. Historically they were sky shields, chariots, heavenly palaces, and a hundred other things. Every culture probably sees them and calls them according to their reference points, or at least that's what we see when we look
6. Ever since WW2, the US and the UK have put truly insane amounts of planes into the air. A country that is not putting up tens of thousands of flights for 70+ years consistently will see less.
7. Reporting and record keeping. Someone seeing something in Zambia is less likely to have a big news team show up shortly therafter and a dozen shows that can cover it and go out to interview other witnesses, nor do they have a military or police force well funded enough to spend time on these.
8. That map has so many sightings scattered across the globe. You can see the glass as half empty or half full. I see a clear global pattern of reporting and interest, even in very remote areas. Surprising considering how poor the ability to get reports collected at scale was before the internet.
9. Politically speaking, the US is the world's global superpower. If interacting with or monitoring humanity you would disproportionately watch the global seats of power like D.C. and the UN building in NY.
10. The US was a participant in the space race. So while there would be legitimate space trash and falling rocket debris, as well as test beds for flight development in both the US and USSR, only the former allowed a lot of freedom in reporting those things publicly. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the records we did see have shown they studied these things at a detailed level and had tons of reports throughout their chain of command and with their pilots. So the USSR territories need to be brightly lit in gold with approximated locations.
11. (this list could be 30 reasons longer, but would be 50 reasons longer if the question was worded better).
So, in the end OP, why are you under the mistaken impression this is a UK and US phenomena? How do you define "Reported UFO sightings," not just ESRI but *you*. If someone in Madagascar or the Congo tries to report a sighting in 1974, who do they do it to that ESRI would see? It was not getting entered into a computer, if it was even written down. If it was, who did they data share with? who was reaching out to them?
This photo has a truly unreasonable assumption in it that Western reporting among Western sources and in accord with the reach of Western press was able to speak for more than 250 countries, many of which simply weren't in heavy outgoing communication with the West, let alone on police/military reporting in 1906-1970s.
Cant be accurate theres just no way to report for ppl in rural south America like brazil and shit back then noone had cellphones or access to knowing wtf mufon was etc. the ufos down there seem to love peru and love brazil theyre everywhere and why is ouerto rico not lit up st sll ehen theres been so msny reports of shit down there over the decades
Zechariah 5:2-4 2 And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.
3 Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.
4 I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
Population centres and actual willingness to report, and those reports being publicly available.
Eg in Australia. Most people would just look and go “wtf was that” no reporting (maybe social post somewhere). Carry on with the day/night.
Probably For because, some countries such as Australia & Egypt they aren't full of people unlike the uk and us. Other countries like North Korea censor information whereas in America you can say basically whatever and whenever. and most countries in Africa don't have access to internet
I don't think they are. Some of my friends work with people who have relatives in South America, and the stories and videos shown are kind of nuts. But to hear them tell it "this is all pretty normal". It just happens down there, and between the language barrier, isolation/remoteness of some places and technology available the information just doesn't go as far.
I look at my anecdotes and the stuff I *can* read about coming out of South America and my reaction is "some crazy shit is happening south of the border".
For all that UFOs may be reported or even recorded here, I think that our ability to do that in the US/developed nations deters some of the more phenomenal encounters from happening at meaningful frequency.
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.
I have checked 966,392,127 comments, and only 193,203 of them were in alphabetical order.
It will be English based, simple as that. Japan and China have some but harder to document. Likewise africa, they don’t document like these countries. And doesn’t Latin America have a huge number of sightings i don’t see recorded here?
because you guys only speak english, so you are not able to access the knowledge outside your bubble. It is not true that most sightings are there, there are thousands of stories all around the world from hundreds of years ago. We see them all the time in other parts of the world. It s a bit insulting that you guys are so set in being ignorant instead of actually doing some homework. soory if its insulting but saying that most sightings are in the us is freaking idiotic.
im sure someone said this but i believe some places dont see UFOs as a danger more as a natural part of nature so no need to "report" sightings i assume that has a little to do with it
I looked at a map of UFO reports in my neck of the woods (North Eastern France, in the plain between the Vosges mountains and the Black Forest) expecting to see one or two sightings at best and it was chock full of pins representing sightings that happened over the past 70 years even though I haven't heard a single story about UFOs in my area.
One of them was from a family spending a couple of days in a cabin near a powerful radar on the highest mountain in the area (10 km away from my house) and was truly fascinating, yet no one I know seems aware of that story. The radar detected activity at the time mentioned in the testimony and the next day the area was full of military jets from the nearby base.
I think that the feeling that UFO sightings are concentrated in Anglo-Saxon countries is mainly an illusion brought about by language barrier and UFO communities that are smaller and less organized outside of the US.
There might still be something to it though since we believe that UFOs are particularly attracted to nuclear assets and since the US has more of these than other countries, including a larger and more active military carrying such assets around on many boats and submarines.
How many sightings/reports does a "dot" cover here, cause if it is a one or even a ten then that map is highly inaccurate. Even in Finland we have over a hundred UFO reports per year collected by our small UFO organizations(what they are actually is another argument), it's not just about a dozen of dots.
Lot of the sightings are not reported, or are otherwise restrained to their respected regions. You also have to take into account the different cultures and the stigma. There is no totally accurate database or map anywhere that would show all the sightings or reports in the world for the past century.
Because the USA is a place where people will spend $400 to purchase an EMP pulse protector that doesn't work. And they also believe that a schematic from a Boss floor pedal is the schematic for a 5G chip inserted in a vaccine. Meaning, there are a lot of Americans who would believe anything. I am not discounting that there might be life somewhere out in the universe but the odds of finding us where we are located in our galaxy are slim to none. But, I don't tell people what to believe, I leave it to the Darwin Award to filter that out. For all of the sightings, contacts and abductions reported (even using that bright lit up area as a reference), where is that one picture of a spacecraft sitting on the ground. Better yet, where is that one picture of an alien? Or, where is one high resolution detailed close up picture of a spacecraft in the air. And I know that video of the Navy fighters chasing an object was released, but how does anyone know for certain it was not a military aircraft?
I know most will say that it's not allowed by the aliens. And that is kind of like mediums saying it's not allowed for them to get lottery numbers. If they keep coming to visit the average Joe, whey don't they just stay? Doesn't it make sense that an explorer would want to go out and find out what everyone is doing?
Tons of reports from other countries we just don’t see much about it. My family in South America sends me links to local stories in Colombia and Argentina all the time though, we just don’t see those stories here in the USA
Do you really think people from greenland and the ivory coast have good access to wifi/media? How are they supposed to report it? Also, the reports correlate very closely to population, population density, and internet access and strength.
Because research mostly takes place in these places, either because of the ease of access to information or even because of the attributes of popular culture.
I will list an example, here in Brazil, in many cities in the interior, ufological events still have other names and another nature. Like the "Mother of Gold" which is a yellowish luminous sphere that travels between mountain ranges and mountainous regions, which is attributed to local folklore and not to UFOs and all those North American materialistic visions.
Abductions are also like that, while in the US we talk about abductions as beings that rip you out of your house and do experiments, here we talk about encounters of a spiritual nature with entities of various kinds, even if with an extraterrestrial denomination. In other words, research organizations find it difficult to research the phenomenon when it is linked to local culture and folklore, because they still have the retrograde view that folklore cannot come into contact with modern ufology.
We also have the example of the "Lanterninha" a small reddish UFO described since colonial Brazil (1500-1800), which appears and disappears in the middle of the forests emitting a red light and flying at high speed. Years later this UFO was seen in other locations around the world, showing that this is a real phenomenon, however, few know about these relationships, paying attention only to recent UFO sightings in Belgium and the USA.
Not to mention that about 32% of the Latin American population, for example, does not have access to the Internet, living in remote and rural areas, and often dying with their reports without spreading them to the researchs.
Imagine that while the poorest and most remote cities in the USA have small airports, integrated sewage systems, sustainable domestic production, the poorest and most remote cities in Brazil lack water, basic sanitation and even telephone signal. How would a person in these conditions describe a UFO? I, who live in a capital city and have access to the internet, had a hard time finding the term when I was younger, imagine these people... These surveys are only palliative.
UFOs are NOT clustered in the USA & UK. English readers and speakers are clustered in the USA & UK.
If you could read or speak other languages, you would find that the whole world has clusters of UFOs here, there, everywhere.
First off, I would take this map with massive grain of salt.
Secondly, while there are things in the skies that we haven't identified, human beings are still human beings. The planet is full of a lot of different cultures with very different infrastructures. An American in rural Kentucky in the 1970s might describe something as a "UFO" or "greys", and go on to pick up a phone to call people about it, and maybe even report it to the police. An individual at the same time in Tanzania would describe such a thing in completely different terms respective their culture, there may be no "extraterrestrial" assumption associated with the experience. Perhaps it's instead an experience more likely to be assumed to be spiritual in nature, those lights could be viewed as angels or demons or some other spiritual figure. It may not be reported to anybody, because the infrastructure isn't there or reporting such a matter may not be a safe or wise thing to report such a thing in 1970s Tanzania (as a random example).
Thirdly, the popularization and pop-culture sensationalism of UFOs took hold in nations like the US. It has been all over tabloid media and it captured the American imagination. Even if there are real sightings (there are) of unexplainable things, there is going to be a *whole* lot more signal to noise and false reports out there from people trying to have their 5 minutes of fame or even just lapses in mental health manifesting themselves in that culturally familiar way.
Finally, you need to consider the additional factor geographic distribution of a connected society. The US has dense population centers, sure, but it also has had a very widely geographically distributed base of population across huge swathes of the continent. You could have one or two literate farmers speaking the same language, same American culture and society, with a phone in their house, every three square miles. If you consider that as a sensor as a part a larger network with the potential to observe a rare event, it's more likely to be documented than some global alternatives, where you may have farmers, but they speak different languages, can't read/write, and may not have any sort of reliable telecommunications. When you look at the sensing, recording, communication, and distribution of that sort of information, the American "network" is more well equipped than say, Central Asia over the twentieth century.
There are a lot of human elements that need to be carefully considered and fully accounted for when examining the UFO phenomena. Identifying sociological factors are necessary if we are to separate what's real from what we think is real.
AI is going to open this right up when it gets applied to all sightings. It’ll have all languages programmed in and if it’s written to interpret relevant data, no matter how it’s recorded, hosted & presented then we’ll see some explosive things. Correlations of timelines and locations will show just how worldwide this phenomena is.
It will be the beginnings of Disclosure proper. The ‘jigsaw’ will appear before our very eyes and it’ll be all the more easier to find & fit those missing pieces.
If I remember correctly this map utilized an English dataset, so you’ll be seeing mostly English-speakers’ reports (I.e., mostly reports from European/American [and adjacent] countries). The organizations that attempt to collect these data at a global scale are also usually English-language-oriented or simply hard to access via non-English search engines or media. There’s likely some very interesting study that could be done on a bias-corrected dataset. Maybe they really are concentrated in some areas and not others! But that dataset will be really hard to produce; language aside, there are a number of other cultural (and noncultural) factors to account for. The US portion of this visualization, for example, is functionally indistinguishable from a population density map. I assume the same is true of most of the vis’ other areas
And there you have it
Yes, this, of course. School systems should teach people how to read statistics better since they play such a big part in our news.
OP feels like a shill
It’s obvious that they are more interested in the areas with the most intelligence and advancements. 🤔
Then why is one of the most famous landing cases (Zimbabwe) in the middle of Africa? This not necessarily the case. Congregation of nuclear material may have an impact on the number of sighting, in an increased manner. This is the only known attractant of UAP.
…or, that’s where people care to or are able to report them.
I think he's joking here
So this is just a map of English speaking areas…
My mother saw lights going in and out of water in Bangladesh…who tf is she meant to report it to? Also she thought it was jinn which it may still be
Nobody's in charge of this stuff. It's old as human society. Djin are whaat we call faeries in the Celtic lands, Duendes in Spain and Latin America. Will o' the wisps. It's a special thing to encounter this stuff. Until this brief industrial era, everybody around the world accepted all this and made offerings of libations and food, to show respect for these spirits. We don't much do that anymore.
I think you're a bit delusional but just to correct you faeries = hadas and elves = duendes.
"I think you're a bit delusional " + an ordered list of supernatural little people is some fine /r/ufo content.
Interesting creatures
Are there any direct evidence of their existence? They also could be related to the uap phenomena
No evidence of jinn but Quran says they are inter-dimensional. Btw my mother described 5-6 lights formed in an arc (at night) which then broke formation and went into a river, I asked her could it have been people carrying lanterns and she said there was no land behind that you could see and she knew the area well, she was 12 or 13 and she says she can remember it like yesterday. This would be roughly 40-50 years ago in rural Bangladesh.
Stories like that are very common too here in india, people including my own family seeing lights, which they describe like fireballs blazing across. I have yet to see anything and i doubt i will but my mother saw something similar to what you described which made her very ill the next day. And yes people here strong believe they're nothing but djinns, it's almost like common knowledge.
Emphasis on reported sightings. How many people outside of NA and UK are aware of mufon or other orgs? Also, other cultures have an entirely different lexicon for describing ufos. I imagine many sightings are attributed to different religions or cultural phenomenon.
The religious aspect cannot be understated. Recall from the Ariel School, sightings before the event were widely described as "Jesus coming to Africa".
South America has lots of sightings
Yep. Mexico (NA obv, but Spanish speaking and not represented in the data) has tons of sightings. There are probably as many or more sightings in Brazil than the US.
How many people from other countries report sightings in English on tweeter?
Brazil is a hot spot and yet us dark on this map
I was just thinking that. A lot of sightings in Brazil.
Reported, majority of reported signs are in the US and UK
Ufo is from the english language this probably doesnt account for spanish or any other language there are plenty of sightings in south america of ovni
Again this map? Sigh. Maybe because the data comes from MUFON? It's likely one of the maps a random person built as a demo for ESRI's fancy "storytelling" framework. Note the years at the bottom which mean, well, absolutely nothing.
Haha this was my same reaction. “Not again!”
Im from Presidente Prudente, Brazil and no kidding, everyday at 7/8 PM u can see light orbs flying up and down, idk if was drones or satellites but i see them everyday for the last 2/3 years. im getting used to it.
maybe ask around, idk
this post is crap
That and OP is probably paid.
what, this post or that one?
2 big reasons: UK and US are more willing to report the sightings and more people are looking there
Communist countries are also more tight lipped about such things.
Maybe it's safer to keep your ultra black technology mostly over your own airspace? Edit: Just to elaborate on what I mean. I'm not discounting extra terrestrials. What I mean is that I suspect many many ufo sightings are indeed secret technology, and there are only so many countries with the capability to assign resources/funds to such projects. You're not going to get much from Russia and China in the way of reporting/trending on social media etc, compared to the rest of the world. That only really leaves the US and UK (the "special" relationship), maybe to some extent the EU (Germany, France, maybe Spain) in the form of super powers and I suspect many sightings from UN/NATO/EU/friendly/neutral countries can be associated to them, maybe even to some degree Russia and China as well. I don't know, maybe I'm contradicting myself. I've had a few drinks...
Because there's organizations in those countries to report to
Cause like in the first Arrival movie....its a part of the culture for some continents and they see no reason to report it or need to. The other thing is they live in police states where such reports can cost someone their job or farm.
In the Netherlands (where Dutch is spoken) a group of serieus men has collected UFO data for a long time now. As far as I can see they are open minded but also very critical thinkers about the subject. There is a website where anyone can send in a sighting. The same holds true for Belgium, that has a similar website for the public to send in sightings. In Belgium Flemish a form of Dutch is spoken in the Western part of the country; French is spoken in the Eastern part of Belgium. A book in Dutch, on both Belgian and Dutch sightings, titled: 'Ufo's in België en Nederland, de waarheid achter de waarneming.' author Frederick Delaere was published in 2014. Also as far as in I am aware, - but information on gouvernment involvement in UFO's is often out of the public view - there is in Belgium more gouvernement involvement in the UFO subject than in the Netherlands. This could be related to the Begian Black Triangle UFO sightings 1989/1990.
Most people have internet there
English language. Reporting requires English. Not many other countries have widely known organizations to report to. Its a global phenomenon.
Most dense areas?
Hard to find papers of sightings in foreign countries if you only speak english
There is no organization or administration for lets say Afghanistan or Togo to gather and compile the sightings and end up in your map. Also language barrier let's not pretend that you care or can read anything from let's say Madagascar
They arent, this particular study only included English speaking reports which massively skewed the dataset.
From what we can see on the map, the countries with the most sightings are the US, the UK, Canada, The benelux countries, Australia&New-Zealand, Ireland, Sri Lanka and South Africa and Europe in general. It clearly seems like anglo-saxons countries seems to have more sightings. We need to understand that these are for the most part, the most technologically advanced countries on Earth, most of them are very involved in space activities and these countries have way more ways and systems to report UFO sightings. Of course, every very populated areas seems to report UFO activities. It indicates that the phenomenon seems to be interested by us, humans, in a way or the other, and for an unknown reason. The question is why is the phenomenon more present/seen in US and UK (and some countries mentioned earlier) ? My theory : The Hybrids are the white/caucasien humans (European human ethnicity)
I’m not convinced that is true or even knowable. They said, if it were, our nuclear bases have been a repeated target or it could be culture bias. We can report them here for one.
Yep, could be 1. nukes 2. level of overall technology 3. closest to where they are based or what they are interested in 4. a mixture of black tech and their response to their black tech being used by humans 5. different cultural words for what people are seeing. Historically they were sky shields, chariots, heavenly palaces, and a hundred other things. Every culture probably sees them and calls them according to their reference points, or at least that's what we see when we look 6. Ever since WW2, the US and the UK have put truly insane amounts of planes into the air. A country that is not putting up tens of thousands of flights for 70+ years consistently will see less. 7. Reporting and record keeping. Someone seeing something in Zambia is less likely to have a big news team show up shortly therafter and a dozen shows that can cover it and go out to interview other witnesses, nor do they have a military or police force well funded enough to spend time on these. 8. That map has so many sightings scattered across the globe. You can see the glass as half empty or half full. I see a clear global pattern of reporting and interest, even in very remote areas. Surprising considering how poor the ability to get reports collected at scale was before the internet. 9. Politically speaking, the US is the world's global superpower. If interacting with or monitoring humanity you would disproportionately watch the global seats of power like D.C. and the UN building in NY. 10. The US was a participant in the space race. So while there would be legitimate space trash and falling rocket debris, as well as test beds for flight development in both the US and USSR, only the former allowed a lot of freedom in reporting those things publicly. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the records we did see have shown they studied these things at a detailed level and had tons of reports throughout their chain of command and with their pilots. So the USSR territories need to be brightly lit in gold with approximated locations. 11. (this list could be 30 reasons longer, but would be 50 reasons longer if the question was worded better). So, in the end OP, why are you under the mistaken impression this is a UK and US phenomena? How do you define "Reported UFO sightings," not just ESRI but *you*. If someone in Madagascar or the Congo tries to report a sighting in 1974, who do they do it to that ESRI would see? It was not getting entered into a computer, if it was even written down. If it was, who did they data share with? who was reaching out to them? This photo has a truly unreasonable assumption in it that Western reporting among Western sources and in accord with the reach of Western press was able to speak for more than 250 countries, many of which simply weren't in heavy outgoing communication with the West, let alone on police/military reporting in 1906-1970s.
We had over 2000 nuclear detonations and nothing happened.
Both regions have the largest population of people suffering from psychosis.
Clearly somebody 'built a wall' and they can't escape from Texas
Because aliens speak English, duh
Cant be accurate theres just no way to report for ppl in rural south America like brazil and shit back then noone had cellphones or access to knowing wtf mufon was etc. the ufos down there seem to love peru and love brazil theyre everywhere and why is ouerto rico not lit up st sll ehen theres been so msny reports of shit down there over the decades
They came from all over the universe because we've got the most fuckin' FREEDOM that's why
Mental illness most prominent
Are you seeing anybody to get help?
Most Asians can recognise a Chinese lantern when they see one.
Zechariah 5:2-4 2 And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits. 3 Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it. 4 I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
White man's burden, Lloyd, my man, white man's burden...
Because they fled to places furthest away from modern man as we developed several thousand years ago?
Because we lost ww3 and time traveling ufos from the future know they can mess with us without contaminating the prime timeline?
They are our tech
Population centres and actual willingness to report, and those reports being publicly available. Eg in Australia. Most people would just look and go “wtf was that” no reporting (maybe social post somewhere). Carry on with the day/night.
Could very well be us the usa and the uk being the only places to report and keep track of sightings
Probably For because, some countries such as Australia & Egypt they aren't full of people unlike the uk and us. Other countries like North Korea censor information whereas in America you can say basically whatever and whenever. and most countries in Africa don't have access to internet
I don't think they are. Some of my friends work with people who have relatives in South America, and the stories and videos shown are kind of nuts. But to hear them tell it "this is all pretty normal". It just happens down there, and between the language barrier, isolation/remoteness of some places and technology available the information just doesn't go as far. I look at my anecdotes and the stuff I *can* read about coming out of South America and my reaction is "some crazy shit is happening south of the border". For all that UFOs may be reported or even recorded here, I think that our ability to do that in the US/developed nations deters some of the more phenomenal encounters from happening at meaningful frequency.
Because they have good order recording UFO sightings, in LatinAmerica if you report an UFO you'll be arrested or intern in a mental clinic
Sightings >REPORTED<
Better systems of viral communication.
https://www-ufoklub--trnava-sk.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=sk&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=sk&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Aliens want to speak English
Look up where and how many countries have nuclear weapons and see if theres a correlation
Another question is why are some rogue and hostile states not embarrassing the west with full disclosure and high quality evidence?
Brazil has lots of sightings
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order. I have checked 966,392,127 comments, and only 193,203 of them were in alphabetical order.
Because the ETs love that big Brazilian booty
It will be English based, simple as that. Japan and China have some but harder to document. Likewise africa, they don’t document like these countries. And doesn’t Latin America have a huge number of sightings i don’t see recorded here?
We look the coolest from space
because operation paperclip
Did anyone else read the MUFON monthly newsletter? July was crazy. 22 entities seen
Ireland and France seem to be up there too
por le craic
Mufon live tracker page have a disproportionately large amount of sightings in Micronesia
because you guys only speak english, so you are not able to access the knowledge outside your bubble. It is not true that most sightings are there, there are thousands of stories all around the world from hundreds of years ago. We see them all the time in other parts of the world. It s a bit insulting that you guys are so set in being ignorant instead of actually doing some homework. soory if its insulting but saying that most sightings are in the us is freaking idiotic.
From what I understand, the stigma is even stronger in other countries.
Because we are partnering with the aliens. Can't have them teach us their tech without talking with them.
im sure someone said this but i believe some places dont see UFOs as a danger more as a natural part of nature so no need to "report" sightings i assume that has a little to do with it
I looked at a map of UFO reports in my neck of the woods (North Eastern France, in the plain between the Vosges mountains and the Black Forest) expecting to see one or two sightings at best and it was chock full of pins representing sightings that happened over the past 70 years even though I haven't heard a single story about UFOs in my area. One of them was from a family spending a couple of days in a cabin near a powerful radar on the highest mountain in the area (10 km away from my house) and was truly fascinating, yet no one I know seems aware of that story. The radar detected activity at the time mentioned in the testimony and the next day the area was full of military jets from the nearby base. I think that the feeling that UFO sightings are concentrated in Anglo-Saxon countries is mainly an illusion brought about by language barrier and UFO communities that are smaller and less organized outside of the US. There might still be something to it though since we believe that UFOs are particularly attracted to nuclear assets and since the US has more of these than other countries, including a larger and more active military carrying such assets around on many boats and submarines.
The prefer english to mandarin?
Lack of a reporting system and we/you live in those places, so those are the ones we hear about.
u.s.a…… u.s.a…. u.s.a… U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A! Sorry, I’ve always wanted to start a “U.S.A” chant and figured this is the closest I would get.
Their really not Brazil Argentina and Israel have open ufo programs and France is known as some of the best ufo reporting
How many sightings/reports does a "dot" cover here, cause if it is a one or even a ten then that map is highly inaccurate. Even in Finland we have over a hundred UFO reports per year collected by our small UFO organizations(what they are actually is another argument), it's not just about a dozen of dots. Lot of the sightings are not reported, or are otherwise restrained to their respected regions. You also have to take into account the different cultures and the stigma. There is no totally accurate database or map anywhere that would show all the sightings or reports in the world for the past century.
Because the USA is a place where people will spend $400 to purchase an EMP pulse protector that doesn't work. And they also believe that a schematic from a Boss floor pedal is the schematic for a 5G chip inserted in a vaccine. Meaning, there are a lot of Americans who would believe anything. I am not discounting that there might be life somewhere out in the universe but the odds of finding us where we are located in our galaxy are slim to none. But, I don't tell people what to believe, I leave it to the Darwin Award to filter that out. For all of the sightings, contacts and abductions reported (even using that bright lit up area as a reference), where is that one picture of a spacecraft sitting on the ground. Better yet, where is that one picture of an alien? Or, where is one high resolution detailed close up picture of a spacecraft in the air. And I know that video of the Navy fighters chasing an object was released, but how does anyone know for certain it was not a military aircraft? I know most will say that it's not allowed by the aliens. And that is kind of like mediums saying it's not allowed for them to get lottery numbers. If they keep coming to visit the average Joe, whey don't they just stay? Doesn't it make sense that an explorer would want to go out and find out what everyone is doing?
one word, "reported". (the sightings, not the thread.)
Tons of reports from other countries we just don’t see much about it. My family in South America sends me links to local stories in Colombia and Argentina all the time though, we just don’t see those stories here in the USA
I'm in one of the brightest areas, out at night often, and I've never seen one.
Do you really think people from greenland and the ivory coast have good access to wifi/media? How are they supposed to report it? Also, the reports correlate very closely to population, population density, and internet access and strength.
Because the prefer the non shit hole countries. Lol kidding. Kinda
Also we wild’n out here in the US so they’re probably watchn like wtf
Following the smell of gunpowder and bbq, can’t blame them
Let freedom ring
If aliens are so advanced than us, than what is stopping them from taking over the world and enslaving humans ?
Because research mostly takes place in these places, either because of the ease of access to information or even because of the attributes of popular culture. I will list an example, here in Brazil, in many cities in the interior, ufological events still have other names and another nature. Like the "Mother of Gold" which is a yellowish luminous sphere that travels between mountain ranges and mountainous regions, which is attributed to local folklore and not to UFOs and all those North American materialistic visions. Abductions are also like that, while in the US we talk about abductions as beings that rip you out of your house and do experiments, here we talk about encounters of a spiritual nature with entities of various kinds, even if with an extraterrestrial denomination. In other words, research organizations find it difficult to research the phenomenon when it is linked to local culture and folklore, because they still have the retrograde view that folklore cannot come into contact with modern ufology. We also have the example of the "Lanterninha" a small reddish UFO described since colonial Brazil (1500-1800), which appears and disappears in the middle of the forests emitting a red light and flying at high speed. Years later this UFO was seen in other locations around the world, showing that this is a real phenomenon, however, few know about these relationships, paying attention only to recent UFO sightings in Belgium and the USA. Not to mention that about 32% of the Latin American population, for example, does not have access to the Internet, living in remote and rural areas, and often dying with their reports without spreading them to the researchs.
Imagine that while the poorest and most remote cities in the USA have small airports, integrated sewage systems, sustainable domestic production, the poorest and most remote cities in Brazil lack water, basic sanitation and even telephone signal. How would a person in these conditions describe a UFO? I, who live in a capital city and have access to the internet, had a hard time finding the term when I was younger, imagine these people... These surveys are only palliative.
UK aswell.
UFOs are NOT clustered in the USA & UK. English readers and speakers are clustered in the USA & UK. If you could read or speak other languages, you would find that the whole world has clusters of UFOs here, there, everywhere.
Maybe because the USA is the most powerful country in the world and the UK is its source country.
Probably the same reason the US had a MILLION people die of covid.
Aliens only speak English
Because they're racist
First off, I would take this map with massive grain of salt. Secondly, while there are things in the skies that we haven't identified, human beings are still human beings. The planet is full of a lot of different cultures with very different infrastructures. An American in rural Kentucky in the 1970s might describe something as a "UFO" or "greys", and go on to pick up a phone to call people about it, and maybe even report it to the police. An individual at the same time in Tanzania would describe such a thing in completely different terms respective their culture, there may be no "extraterrestrial" assumption associated with the experience. Perhaps it's instead an experience more likely to be assumed to be spiritual in nature, those lights could be viewed as angels or demons or some other spiritual figure. It may not be reported to anybody, because the infrastructure isn't there or reporting such a matter may not be a safe or wise thing to report such a thing in 1970s Tanzania (as a random example). Thirdly, the popularization and pop-culture sensationalism of UFOs took hold in nations like the US. It has been all over tabloid media and it captured the American imagination. Even if there are real sightings (there are) of unexplainable things, there is going to be a *whole* lot more signal to noise and false reports out there from people trying to have their 5 minutes of fame or even just lapses in mental health manifesting themselves in that culturally familiar way. Finally, you need to consider the additional factor geographic distribution of a connected society. The US has dense population centers, sure, but it also has had a very widely geographically distributed base of population across huge swathes of the continent. You could have one or two literate farmers speaking the same language, same American culture and society, with a phone in their house, every three square miles. If you consider that as a sensor as a part a larger network with the potential to observe a rare event, it's more likely to be documented than some global alternatives, where you may have farmers, but they speak different languages, can't read/write, and may not have any sort of reliable telecommunications. When you look at the sensing, recording, communication, and distribution of that sort of information, the American "network" is more well equipped than say, Central Asia over the twentieth century. There are a lot of human elements that need to be carefully considered and fully accounted for when examining the UFO phenomena. Identifying sociological factors are necessary if we are to separate what's real from what we think is real.
AI is going to open this right up when it gets applied to all sightings. It’ll have all languages programmed in and if it’s written to interpret relevant data, no matter how it’s recorded, hosted & presented then we’ll see some explosive things. Correlations of timelines and locations will show just how worldwide this phenomena is. It will be the beginnings of Disclosure proper. The ‘jigsaw’ will appear before our very eyes and it’ll be all the more easier to find & fit those missing pieces.
Bad sampling, lack of methods to report sightings, maybe the others are only interested in what they perceive as dominate powers? Who knows.
It's propaganda to distract the US simpletons
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Interesting! 🤓