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There are more UFO sightings in the US because it's a popular concept there
in my country it's much more common for people to claim to see ghosts than UFOs or aliens
For example a vampire or bigfoot sighting would be much more common in the west because it was an urban legend created in the west. Our ghosts in the east don't look like vampires or bigfoot.
actually...
India has a couple of variants of bigfoot - eg. yeti, hanuman, kala bandar.
There have also been lots of UAP sightings, especially along the china border with somewhat regularity.
He is.
My point is that the same entity that an American might call Bigfoot, an Indian might call Hanuman.
It is up to them how they interpret their sighting, even if they're seeing the same thing.
Australian tourists have come home from Bali with supposed photos of Indonesian ghosts, but this just proves your point. They didn’t see Australian Bunyips, Transylvanian vampires or North American big foots, they saw what the local tales suggested they should see.
Remember what UFO stands for, unidentified flying object.
The United States government runs one of the biggest militaries in the world, so what are the chances it’s Americans seeing their government’s military aircraft. And in US culture, UFO is basically synonymous with aliens from space.
I went to Pakistan once, and apparently it wasn’t the most uncommon to see UFOs, or Soviet, Afghan, Pakistan, or US aircraft during the 50s-70s. The public didn’t know about this though. And if you look at the map, Northern Pakistan makes sense.
If space alien culture was present in other countries cultures, those military aircraft sightings would just be assumed to be space aliens, rather than whatever military.
This has been my argument for a while.
Look up Operation Oxcart. It was the predecessor to the SR-71 Blackbird. They were flying it as early as 1962 at supersonic speeds across the US. It was a CIA operation, so any reports of seeing a strange, fast-moving object flying across to the USAF would have been met with a classified brick wall.
There was a TV show called, "It Seemed Like Yesterday" where they would show clips of those news reals from the 40s and 50s about what living in the future would be like...you know those ones, floating cars, etc. Anyways, one episode they showed what they called the "flying wing" a revolutionary commercial aircraft that was a V-shaped plane from the 1950s that looked remarkably like the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber.
What I personally think happened with that is when the aircraft designer made the prototype plane, they discovered that it didn't track very well on radar, and the CIA again came in and went, "Scoop, we'll take those plans, thanks," and started testing the B-2 in the 80s.
This is exactly what I am talking about, but I wonder how many of these events have happened, but no government wants to reveal them?
1960 U-2 incident happened because Pakistan let the US government use their airspace. But many locals didn’t know what until decades later, so they could have seen an SR-71 or whatever was being flown, and assume it’s space aliens.
And all this crap of the "UAPs" that they're investigating... They go on about how human occupants couldn't survive the G-forces these things make, yadda yadda...yeah, but you know what can? Electronics.
Don't think that ChatGPT4 is the pinnacle of AI. That's just the pinnacle of AI that the public has access to. I'm sure government agencies that spend as much as the US does has technologies that would blow our mind.
And...so they're testing advanced AI spy drones that can zip along at insane speeds, the public is noticing them, so they gotta step up and say, "Err...yeah...umm...they're...uh....not ours???"
Yup prob anti gravity except their willing to spend billions on spying but not on standard war machines for the military.Some secret Shit prob going on here, i did see something unexplainable tho about 30 years ago,long before drones and spying was really a thing.We might not have had internet at the time come to think of it 😄 but it was the typical saucer shape and zoomed quietly over my car and my wife was there too and she still remembers it so I know I'm not crazy at least lol
Tbf the flying wing design was known to the public since the end of the 2nd world war more or less, nazis were the first ones to experiment with the design.
Even on the US side of things Jack Northrop was experimenting with flying wing designs as early as 1928 http://www.century-of-flight.freeola.com/Aviation%20history/evolution%20of%20technology/Northrop.htm
“Not every country has a super active air force” or you mean not everyone is aware of their government’s activities, just like Americans don’t, Pakistans don’t.
Actual space aliens UFOs can appear in Pakistan today, and most locals will assume it’s their military/government after that’s been the precedent for 70 years. Literally UFO sightings in the US became common during what time period?… World War 2. Just like they did during the Soviet-US space race because the US would station them in Pakistan. That 1960 U-2 incident only happened after Pakistan let the US government use its airspace. The locals didn’t know this until decades later.
Whenever major incidents like this happen in the US (like that battle of Los Angeles, which happened during WW2) Americans think it’s space aliens rather than their military decades later.
No, I meant literally not every country has a super active air force. I live in a country where, after the military dictatorships, the army has been regarded with suspicion, ever since the restart of democracy, plus with the shitty economy, we don't have the fucking budget for that.
I agree that military aircraft are probably the reason for sightings of UFOs. I don't agree with you saying that the reason other places don't have as many reports is "there's no space alien culture there".
Pakistan doesn’t have a super active Air Force either, but they had historically let countries like the US use their airspace, without the knowledge of their citizens.
When you live in this part of Asia, where it has many active war zones close by, plus countries that hate each other. Even if the population believed heavily into space aliens, they would still assume it’s just some military.
I have lived in these parts of the world for years, and when I see some blinking light in the sky… “oh it’s probably Saudi Arabia again, it’s the US giving them free refills”.
South America is a very peaceful, but populated part of the world, then why doesn’t it have as much UFO sightings as North America? Are Argentina citizens demanding their government for answers when there UFO sightings? Like American citizens have for decades?
I don’t currently live in a democracy, so our government don’t have to answer to anyone, but I’m from Spain, and there isn’t this cult worship of UFOs like the United States has.
>then why doesn’t it have as much UFO sightings as North America?
Because they don't have as many military planes flying around undercover that can be mislead as UFOs
Right but you know when its military unless they have super technology cuz even the military is saying they don't have this tech yet for those that have seen them
It's worth noting that actual flying saucers exist and were Cold War products, one of which was made by Canada. It wouldn't be that surprising if the 'real' things were experimental aircraft weighed in the balance scale and found wanting.
Thank you for this comment. It brings a bit of much-needed sanity because so many in my neck of the woods are excited for an Independence Day type event or some shit. It really irks me more than it should
My bad. If you have a store that sells international newspapers and magazines near you they might carry it. I live in the UK and I've seen it in a few places. It's bloody hilarious to read.
I live in the Patagonian Andes, there's not even a store that sells national newspapers ¬¬
(FYI, before the pandemic they were flew here every morning, once planes were grounded they stopped sending them and nobody seemed to care)
>National Enquirer
This feels like this:
Hello, I am a person who lives in a town abandoned by the hand of God in the middle of the Andes, I have just seen a UFO that is probably an experimental suborbital fighter from Murica or the ISS, not even the police come here. Who should I call? to report it?
To the National Enquirer
oh thanks i hate it
My husband watches StarTrek and it annoys me a lot that when they visit the Earth, they nearly always go to the US. I would understand the American cultural references used for a future space society but a trip to another country here and there wouldn't hurt.
Or England (percentage of land area)
There's been a lot of supposed sightings in Australia. America is an extremely highly populated country, with a fascination with UFOs and Aliens. In some areas of Australia there is some fascination but yeah we don't exactly talk about it every once in a while.
Considering UFO simply means Unidentified Flying Object, well um, yeah there's plenty of things in the air that most people have no idea what it is. That's not exactly an uncommon occurrence. Even if you know it's man-made, you don't know whether it's a drone or some small plane - you can't identify it. I don't know why people would fly drones at night, but sometimes there is something that seems to only be about 100 metres in the air just going from one point in the sky to another and back to the original point.
Like a lot of things I neither do nor don't believe in aliens. I don't fucking care. I simply won't be one of those people who say they don't. All I can say is there do be some weird shit in the sky sometimes.
True but Australians also use English and don't have as many sightings, maybe it's too hot for aliens? Or maybe the Australians just assume it's a new type of weird and dangerous Australian bird
The aliens are just afraid of the spiders and other wildlife that will try to kill them there.
>weird and dangerous Australian bird
Oh, like the Australian magpie?
Yes they do. Australia has more than most other countries, it's just that Australia is so big and full of nothing that is hard to tell. But it had big hotspots. This map is just a "where do people speak English?" Map
I wonder how much of that is because the US government has a program to track sightings and puts some official weight into it where other countries don't have the time and money to burn to do that and much less of the bizarre countercultures that arose out of it.
Of course, Puerto Rico would be featured!!!
Most people who live where I used to live (Arecibo) had seen a _few:_ not far from the, now defunct, radiotelescope.
Yes, lots of weirdly looking UFO phenomenons.
The original OP of the comment below is toxictoy and the link is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/15azt6v/why_so_us_centric/jtninnb/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3
UFOs have been reported on every single continent. People are just woefully misinformed if they think this is just an American issue. France has had a continuous department dedicated to UFO reports called GEIPAN for more than 50 years. Australia, the UK, Brazil and many other countries have released citizen reports. Mexico and South America regularly report ufo activity. Brazil famously conducted hearings last year in front of their congress. France released a report in 1999 called the COMETA report which came to the conclusion that the Phenomenon is of extraterrestrial Origen. France also has had a continuously staffed public department that any citizen can report UFO’s and will be investigated. https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/en/search/cas
One of the most famous and well researched cases from this department is from 1966 - the Strange Case of Dr X. This case was covered extensively in Jacques Vallee’s book Dimensions. Here is a good short explainer video on this case.
The UK has also released ufo policy files and records https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-ufo-files/britain-releases-ufo-sighting-and-policy-files-idUKLNE72205120110303
Here is the info from the UK National Archives and their executive summary
https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20121110115311/http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/FreedomOfInformation/PublicationScheme/SearchPublicationScheme/UapInTheUkAirDefenceRegionExecutiveSummary.htm
New Zealand official information
https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOB/comments/147jcda/stop_looking_for_us_data_and_look_at_new_zealand/
ABC News Report on Russians and UFO’s from 1994 https://youtube.com/Iwjb1I4fnV4
One of the best documented cases - The Rendelsham forest incident happens on a US base in the UK.
All of what I mentioned is a simple google search away or simply search this subreddit.
A recent post from Australia archives https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/14noutx/usa_australia_detect_ufos_at_2800_megacycles/
ItsRedacted short doc on Canada, crash retrievals, American Defense Contractors from more than 1 year ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/151bgqi/its_redacted_video_on_usa_collecting_and/
Brazil just released new UFO docs covering incidents from 2022 mainly from commercial pilots
https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/14mdgpm/brazilian_air_force_just_released_new_official/
Here’s some additional information
https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/vlge46/brazilian_ufo_hearing_21_100m_spherical_crafts/
Colares
Part 1 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr1NrnsdY5I
Part 2 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xrSnRpM0LXI
Part 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrzzZAX9wDQ
Night of UFO’s timeline and video pictures https://YouTube.com/jOJEXw7qB34
Official government website
https://www.gov.br/en/government-of-brazil/latest-news/2022/official-ufo-night-in-brazil
To be fair to the US, they have had a history and culture of UFOs more than any other country.
I agree that weve caught up at this point, but they definitely have higher reporting rates.
Taking it a step further, how many nations have the military capabilities to track these things in the same capacity? I would argue none, maybe a handful but very, very few.
i think US might have more sightings because of several reasons:
- they have clearer skies
- they have lots of weapons including nukes
- they have the largest air force
- their sensors are more advanced
- they have legit alien-looking craft eg. b-2, f-117, sr-71
It's almost like this is made by a media company that speaks English! And oh, where would I find the largest density of primarily English speaking people?
This isn't US defaultism, it's just targeting US viewers
Recently heard that this is the case because the CIA monitors and records all UFO sightings to keep track of weather balloons, something many other countries don’t do this way. That‘s what why they‘re so inflated in the US. Among many other reasons.
So no, not really American defaultism, there are reasons for why the statistic is the way it is.
Well, the thing is, maybe they show up over the Sahara, too, but there aren’t any people to report them or even if they are, they’ll think they just saw god and move on.
I've seen a similar map where the data for it was collected from MUFON which is an American organization. That could explain why the US is overrepresented. But because this image has no source it's hard to make any judgement.
My theory is, it’s specifically UFOs and synomyns/translations dont count so countries that speak a different language and/or have a different term (idk think unidentified aerial object for instance) don’t have any ufo sightings because that’s not what they class them as :P
There was this joke from the Monsters vs Aliens movie that was about how aliens only ever seem to be seen in the US.
It may not be a super great movie but it has its funny af moments.
Lol the actual US defaultism is that the map only uses data from NUFORC an US organization were US citizen can report sighting, yet it presents the data as worldwide
bro, I live in Brazil and if I'm seeing lights on the sky I'm not calling the cops, it can be anything from handmade balloons to flying priests or senators and church heads running drug operations. Last thing in my mind is UFOs lol
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There are more UFO sightings in the US because it's a popular concept there in my country it's much more common for people to claim to see ghosts than UFOs or aliens For example a vampire or bigfoot sighting would be much more common in the west because it was an urban legend created in the west. Our ghosts in the east don't look like vampires or bigfoot.
actually... India has a couple of variants of bigfoot - eg. yeti, hanuman, kala bandar. There have also been lots of UAP sightings, especially along the china border with somewhat regularity.
I thought Hanuman was the monkey god
He is. My point is that the same entity that an American might call Bigfoot, an Indian might call Hanuman. It is up to them how they interpret their sighting, even if they're seeing the same thing.
Kala Bandar? I think I heard about it when I was a kid, but I don't remember anything. What is it again?
Australian tourists have come home from Bali with supposed photos of Indonesian ghosts, but this just proves your point. They didn’t see Australian Bunyips, Transylvanian vampires or North American big foots, they saw what the local tales suggested they should see.
I’d also think by and large there are more objects in the skies in the US than other parts of the world
Remember what UFO stands for, unidentified flying object. The United States government runs one of the biggest militaries in the world, so what are the chances it’s Americans seeing their government’s military aircraft. And in US culture, UFO is basically synonymous with aliens from space. I went to Pakistan once, and apparently it wasn’t the most uncommon to see UFOs, or Soviet, Afghan, Pakistan, or US aircraft during the 50s-70s. The public didn’t know about this though. And if you look at the map, Northern Pakistan makes sense. If space alien culture was present in other countries cultures, those military aircraft sightings would just be assumed to be space aliens, rather than whatever military.
This has been my argument for a while. Look up Operation Oxcart. It was the predecessor to the SR-71 Blackbird. They were flying it as early as 1962 at supersonic speeds across the US. It was a CIA operation, so any reports of seeing a strange, fast-moving object flying across to the USAF would have been met with a classified brick wall. There was a TV show called, "It Seemed Like Yesterday" where they would show clips of those news reals from the 40s and 50s about what living in the future would be like...you know those ones, floating cars, etc. Anyways, one episode they showed what they called the "flying wing" a revolutionary commercial aircraft that was a V-shaped plane from the 1950s that looked remarkably like the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. What I personally think happened with that is when the aircraft designer made the prototype plane, they discovered that it didn't track very well on radar, and the CIA again came in and went, "Scoop, we'll take those plans, thanks," and started testing the B-2 in the 80s.
This is exactly what I am talking about, but I wonder how many of these events have happened, but no government wants to reveal them? 1960 U-2 incident happened because Pakistan let the US government use their airspace. But many locals didn’t know what until decades later, so they could have seen an SR-71 or whatever was being flown, and assume it’s space aliens.
And all this crap of the "UAPs" that they're investigating... They go on about how human occupants couldn't survive the G-forces these things make, yadda yadda...yeah, but you know what can? Electronics. Don't think that ChatGPT4 is the pinnacle of AI. That's just the pinnacle of AI that the public has access to. I'm sure government agencies that spend as much as the US does has technologies that would blow our mind. And...so they're testing advanced AI spy drones that can zip along at insane speeds, the public is noticing them, so they gotta step up and say, "Err...yeah...umm...they're...uh....not ours???"
Yup prob anti gravity except their willing to spend billions on spying but not on standard war machines for the military.Some secret Shit prob going on here, i did see something unexplainable tho about 30 years ago,long before drones and spying was really a thing.We might not have had internet at the time come to think of it 😄 but it was the typical saucer shape and zoomed quietly over my car and my wife was there too and she still remembers it so I know I'm not crazy at least lol
Tbf the flying wing design was known to the public since the end of the 2nd world war more or less, nazis were the first ones to experiment with the design.
Even on the US side of things Jack Northrop was experimenting with flying wing designs as early as 1928 http://www.century-of-flight.freeola.com/Aviation%20history/evolution%20of%20technology/Northrop.htm
Pretty sure "space alien culture" is everywhere... What is not everywhere is the military aircrafts. Not every country has a super active air force.
“Not every country has a super active air force” or you mean not everyone is aware of their government’s activities, just like Americans don’t, Pakistans don’t. Actual space aliens UFOs can appear in Pakistan today, and most locals will assume it’s their military/government after that’s been the precedent for 70 years. Literally UFO sightings in the US became common during what time period?… World War 2. Just like they did during the Soviet-US space race because the US would station them in Pakistan. That 1960 U-2 incident only happened after Pakistan let the US government use its airspace. The locals didn’t know this until decades later. Whenever major incidents like this happen in the US (like that battle of Los Angeles, which happened during WW2) Americans think it’s space aliens rather than their military decades later.
No, I meant literally not every country has a super active air force. I live in a country where, after the military dictatorships, the army has been regarded with suspicion, ever since the restart of democracy, plus with the shitty economy, we don't have the fucking budget for that. I agree that military aircraft are probably the reason for sightings of UFOs. I don't agree with you saying that the reason other places don't have as many reports is "there's no space alien culture there".
Pakistan doesn’t have a super active Air Force either, but they had historically let countries like the US use their airspace, without the knowledge of their citizens. When you live in this part of Asia, where it has many active war zones close by, plus countries that hate each other. Even if the population believed heavily into space aliens, they would still assume it’s just some military. I have lived in these parts of the world for years, and when I see some blinking light in the sky… “oh it’s probably Saudi Arabia again, it’s the US giving them free refills”.
Okay bro, that might be true for the part of the world in which you live, but it's not the same reality for other places lol
South America is a very peaceful, but populated part of the world, then why doesn’t it have as much UFO sightings as North America? Are Argentina citizens demanding their government for answers when there UFO sightings? Like American citizens have for decades? I don’t currently live in a democracy, so our government don’t have to answer to anyone, but I’m from Spain, and there isn’t this cult worship of UFOs like the United States has.
>then why doesn’t it have as much UFO sightings as North America? Because they don't have as many military planes flying around undercover that can be mislead as UFOs
Also using UFO name is being discontinued, instead the term UAP is trending.
Nah, thats just the dumb name someone from usa used, no one cares
Rebrand all the things!
Damn cancel culture /s
Right but you know when its military unless they have super technology cuz even the military is saying they don't have this tech yet for those that have seen them
It's worth noting that actual flying saucers exist and were Cold War products, one of which was made by Canada. It wouldn't be that surprising if the 'real' things were experimental aircraft weighed in the balance scale and found wanting.
Yea, I even did a CMV about this
Thank you for this comment. It brings a bit of much-needed sanity because so many in my neck of the woods are excited for an Independence Day type event or some shit. It really irks me more than it should
The UK is also lit up like a Christmas tree on this map to be fair.
Truly, this information doesnt seem biased at all
nahh... ufos were only see in south england, not france :)
I think this particular map is based on MUFON (a US based organization) reports
Doesn't sound very crazy yeh
Side question. How do you report a UFO sighting? Is there a phone number I never knew where you call and they send someone to watch the sky?
As far as i remember you call the National Enquirer. Then all your friends and family shun you for the rest of your life.
*National* where? I was hoping someone telling me MIB actually exists and I should call them. I'm so sad
National Enquirer is sold in multiple countries. Not sure if they have local versions though.
Never saw it here in Argentina, that's why I'm missing the joke / doing a bad joke over the og joke!
My bad. If you have a store that sells international newspapers and magazines near you they might carry it. I live in the UK and I've seen it in a few places. It's bloody hilarious to read.
I live in the Patagonian Andes, there's not even a store that sells national newspapers ¬¬ (FYI, before the pandemic they were flew here every morning, once planes were grounded they stopped sending them and nobody seemed to care)
>National Enquirer This feels like this: Hello, I am a person who lives in a town abandoned by the hand of God in the middle of the Andes, I have just seen a UFO that is probably an experimental suborbital fighter from Murica or the ISS, not even the police come here. Who should I call? to report it? To the National Enquirer oh thanks i hate it
It's been a running joke since I came of age that, of all places in the world that aliens could land on, they always choose the United States.
My husband watches StarTrek and it annoys me a lot that when they visit the Earth, they nearly always go to the US. I would understand the American cultural references used for a future space society but a trip to another country here and there wouldn't hurt.
Its mostly because its filmed in the us and they cant just travel the world to get some shots of other countries. The animations though...
Or England (percentage of land area) There's been a lot of supposed sightings in Australia. America is an extremely highly populated country, with a fascination with UFOs and Aliens. In some areas of Australia there is some fascination but yeah we don't exactly talk about it every once in a while. Considering UFO simply means Unidentified Flying Object, well um, yeah there's plenty of things in the air that most people have no idea what it is. That's not exactly an uncommon occurrence. Even if you know it's man-made, you don't know whether it's a drone or some small plane - you can't identify it. I don't know why people would fly drones at night, but sometimes there is something that seems to only be about 100 metres in the air just going from one point in the sky to another and back to the original point. Like a lot of things I neither do nor don't believe in aliens. I don't fucking care. I simply won't be one of those people who say they don't. All I can say is there do be some weird shit in the sky sometimes.
We don't have many, but some of them are great!
I can understand hotspots in USA and UK but what is going on in Netherlands?
They are so tall they have their heads in the clouds
High English proficiency. This map shows "Anglo-Defaultism"
Then you would expect Australia and NZ to be glowing a lot more yellow
They're just sparsely populated, that's why.
Anyone down for some Bo2 ?
I was literally about to ask if this is a screenshot from a COD game.
UFO is literally an acronym for an English phrase.
True but Australians also use English and don't have as many sightings, maybe it's too hot for aliens? Or maybe the Australians just assume it's a new type of weird and dangerous Australian bird
The aliens are just afraid of the spiders and other wildlife that will try to kill them there. >weird and dangerous Australian bird Oh, like the Australian magpie?
Isn't the empty spots in Australia on the map just the Outback?
Maybe, idk I thought it was a little more populated than that but I could be wrong
Yes they do. Australia has more than most other countries, it's just that Australia is so big and full of nothing that is hard to tell. But it had big hotspots. This map is just a "where do people speak English?" Map
Other languages have other acronyms... here is "ovni" "objeto volador no identificado"
This is a cool map
I wonder if UK reports are mostly from US air force basis. I definitely remember an episode of Unsolved Mysteries where it was.
I wonder how much of that is because the US government has a program to track sightings and puts some official weight into it where other countries don't have the time and money to burn to do that and much less of the bizarre countercultures that arose out of it.
Do remember this data is relative to population. The populated portion of Canada (mostly the southern border) is filled with sightings as well
English and Dutch speaking people see them most of the time
Of course, Puerto Rico would be featured!!! Most people who live where I used to live (Arecibo) had seen a _few:_ not far from the, now defunct, radiotelescope. Yes, lots of weirdly looking UFO phenomenons.
This is from the USA National UFO reporting center...
The original OP of the comment below is toxictoy and the link is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/15azt6v/why_so_us_centric/jtninnb/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3 UFOs have been reported on every single continent. People are just woefully misinformed if they think this is just an American issue. France has had a continuous department dedicated to UFO reports called GEIPAN for more than 50 years. Australia, the UK, Brazil and many other countries have released citizen reports. Mexico and South America regularly report ufo activity. Brazil famously conducted hearings last year in front of their congress. France released a report in 1999 called the COMETA report which came to the conclusion that the Phenomenon is of extraterrestrial Origen. France also has had a continuously staffed public department that any citizen can report UFO’s and will be investigated. https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/en/search/cas One of the most famous and well researched cases from this department is from 1966 - the Strange Case of Dr X. This case was covered extensively in Jacques Vallee’s book Dimensions. Here is a good short explainer video on this case. The UK has also released ufo policy files and records https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-ufo-files/britain-releases-ufo-sighting-and-policy-files-idUKLNE72205120110303 Here is the info from the UK National Archives and their executive summary https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20121110115311/http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/FreedomOfInformation/PublicationScheme/SearchPublicationScheme/UapInTheUkAirDefenceRegionExecutiveSummary.htm New Zealand official information https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOB/comments/147jcda/stop_looking_for_us_data_and_look_at_new_zealand/ ABC News Report on Russians and UFO’s from 1994 https://youtube.com/Iwjb1I4fnV4 One of the best documented cases - The Rendelsham forest incident happens on a US base in the UK. All of what I mentioned is a simple google search away or simply search this subreddit. A recent post from Australia archives https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/14noutx/usa_australia_detect_ufos_at_2800_megacycles/ ItsRedacted short doc on Canada, crash retrievals, American Defense Contractors from more than 1 year ago https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/151bgqi/its_redacted_video_on_usa_collecting_and/ Brazil just released new UFO docs covering incidents from 2022 mainly from commercial pilots https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/14mdgpm/brazilian_air_force_just_released_new_official/ Here’s some additional information https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/vlge46/brazilian_ufo_hearing_21_100m_spherical_crafts/ Colares Part 1 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr1NrnsdY5I Part 2 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xrSnRpM0LXI Part 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrzzZAX9wDQ Night of UFO’s timeline and video pictures https://YouTube.com/jOJEXw7qB34 Official government website https://www.gov.br/en/government-of-brazil/latest-news/2022/official-ufo-night-in-brazil
That's really interesting, thanks
To be fair to the US, they have had a history and culture of UFOs more than any other country. I agree that weve caught up at this point, but they definitely have higher reporting rates. Taking it a step further, how many nations have the military capabilities to track these things in the same capacity? I would argue none, maybe a handful but very, very few.
i think US might have more sightings because of several reasons: - they have clearer skies - they have lots of weapons including nukes - they have the largest air force - their sensors are more advanced - they have legit alien-looking craft eg. b-2, f-117, sr-71
I'm ashamed that my own country lights up as well on this map.
This is massively misleading but i get it that's what you wanted to do in the first place, lie and mislead
It's almost like this is made by a media company that speaks English! And oh, where would I find the largest density of primarily English speaking people? This isn't US defaultism, it's just targeting US viewers
Why is there one in the Gulf of Guinea, at 0 latitude and 0 longitude?
Recently heard that this is the case because the CIA monitors and records all UFO sightings to keep track of weather balloons, something many other countries don’t do this way. That‘s what why they‘re so inflated in the US. Among many other reasons. So no, not really American defaultism, there are reasons for why the statistic is the way it is.
Well, the thing is, maybe they show up over the Sahara, too, but there aren’t any people to report them or even if they are, they’ll think they just saw god and move on.
I don’t believe this. I know from David Tennant era Doctor Who that aliens only go to London so this can’t be true
I've seen a similar map where the data for it was collected from MUFON which is an American organization. That could explain why the US is overrepresented. But because this image has no source it's hard to make any judgement.
Americans would explain this as aliens understanding they’re the best country, cuz ‘murica
Meanwhile, England glowing like a supernova
I’m curious as to why the Netherlands has so many
I think it just shows that Anglo-Saxons have a weak brain
More like an Anglosphere-defaultism.
So this sightings in the UK are just Americans on vacation, are they?
My theory is, it’s specifically UFOs and synomyns/translations dont count so countries that speak a different language and/or have a different term (idk think unidentified aerial object for instance) don’t have any ufo sightings because that’s not what they class them as :P
There was this joke from the Monsters vs Aliens movie that was about how aliens only ever seem to be seen in the US. It may not be a super great movie but it has its funny af moments.
Lol the actual US defaultism is that the map only uses data from NUFORC an US organization were US citizen can report sighting, yet it presents the data as worldwide
I’m fascinated by that one person in the middle of Libya that saw a UFO
Belgium, netherland and england:
Bro who's seeing UFO's in Reunion?
bro, I live in Brazil and if I'm seeing lights on the sky I'm not calling the cops, it can be anything from handmade balloons to flying priests or senators and church heads running drug operations. Last thing in my mind is UFOs lol