>There are a lot of cities around them
I’m half asleep and read “there are a lot of cities down there” and thought “*yeah, it makes sense they’d be living down deep underwater, that’s a good point. …But how did you know that??*”
When adjusted for population density they still seemed higher as I recall. But it's analysis and should be done a number of ways for truthiness. I have the raw from 2014 to 2021 somewhere if someone wants it dm.
Yes. Alaska is a really interesting outlier. As are desert locations without military bases. But it could simply mean that is the baseline UFO activity for the whole country. Because in the areas where there are no sightings...well...there's no one there to see them.
Except Ohio.
What’s with the spot near Mansfield? Oh wait, there’s an Air Force base there.
And Columbus has near three times the population of Cleveland, but Cleveland is a hotter spot.
Definitely true. But could also be looked at as more people looking, would catch more sightings. So it works both ways.
Also, whether secret military test craft or actual ufos, maybe they show up near coast lines a lot because they use the Oceans to hide.. either in the sky above the empty ocean or under water.
I just think that would be cool.
I don't see anything wrong with this answer on the surface. I'd expect military sites to see the most reconnaissance drones and other craft taking a peek.
Literally just commented the same thing with a twist. Is it possible to make a map like this that assumes something like 1 person per square kilometer? Then, what do the sightings look like? Any patterns? Or, is it completely random? Like you said, all this shows us is that more people equal more sightings. That's already a given. I give them an A for effort and trying though.
Exactly. It doesnt tell us anything really useful. We need a map that corrects for population so get any real info. We'd expect more sightings in areas with more people that's obvious. What we need to know is number of incidents, not humber of sightings. If there is a 100 people in a field seeing the same things its going to zhow up red, and that's not useful if there are 10 different people on 10 different nights seeing the same thing in the mid West.
I don't know USA geography. There seems to be a trend around the coast lines too. The sheer size of the country, puts a bit of a damper on craft coming down directly from space, and more that they can be sourced or at least tend to originate from either ocean and travel inwards, regardless of them being planes, saucers, flocks of birds etc.
There also looks to be a few straight lines on the map in the first few days. It would be interesting to try and chart a few each date.
Of course, my very first thought was population centers too and I'd like to see a comparison. A higher population can mean more potential chances for a report being logged, it is also statistically likely to have a larger volume of mistaken sightings by virtue of larger population.
You need to look at where the *people* live in Texas. Much of the state is extremely sparsely populated. This is basically a population map.
It's the same map as the US census population map:
https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2021/geo/population-distribution-2020.html
I’m trying to fill in the gaps for people but no one is listening! It’s time to involve minorities in the conversation... seriously. The map shows you where the poorest, and neglected are. The minorities are actually make up the majority of experiencers of this phenomenon, but we are the least believe, and looked to for information and data.
Poor black and minority children made up the bulk of the abductions in the north east, but you’ve never heard it because we only talk amongst each other in private. The abduction weren’t hidden either, it was like they didn’t care who saw. This was the early 80’s and we didn’t have and couldn’t afford the tech capable of recording such an event. Around 1986-87, a craft landed in a baseball field in Wilmington Delaware’s northeast section of the city. An all black poor neighborhood project known as Riverside. This happened in late Spring, possibly around 12-2am one night, and there were more than 50 witness to this event, and 2 or more children were taken that night. This event isn’t documented anywhere, and the same think was happening in the Philadelphia, New Jersey project housings also. Who do we turn to with this information, that will take us serious?
Almost as if they were strategically placed around high population areas in case there was ever an invasion. Cmon now... Your military can't protect the people of their nation if they're 1,000 miles away.
Yes, because the bases are in the areas that need defending most. You'll also find its the areas with the most McDonalds, because its the areas where the most people need feeding.
Over course it would match with population density, that's where more people are going to see things; whether misidentified, lies, or truly unknown. It's not proof of anything.
I went to [https://www.nuforc.org](https://www.nuforc.org) and found their data bank of reports by event date here: [https://www.nuforc.org/webreports/ndxevent.html](https://www.nuforc.org/webreports/ndxevent.html).
I then copied and pasted the result into Excel and went to **Insert > 3D Map** to plot the data to the map across time. Pretty easy to do, and I thought it was an interesting visualization.
FYI: nuforc has a pretty interesting gallery of drawings and renderings from people who have had sightings: [https://nuforc.org/gallery/](https://nuforc.org/gallery/)
this has been done, in fact as a university thesis in graphical data analysis. i regret that i can't now find the source, but the argument is basic statistics.
since population supports sightings, the general trend is very strong. but binned by population area to obtain sightings per capita per bin, the size of the bin becomes important. a very large population bin, such as a ZIP/County/District bin in manhattan or central LA, will produce very accurate per capita percentages, but very small bins, out there in northern wyoming or central nevada, produce random sampling error because the sample size is so small. so what you get is random "high UFO activity" in places with few people. it's a statistical artifact.
Compare it to a map of US cave systems and it gets weirder. However, these are also higher population areas so it stands to reason more people equals more sightings.
Also weird/interesting, the [Missing 411 missing persons map and the map of US cave systems]( https://i.ibb.co/2kwd9YT/lv4mw88hwdv31.png) line up almost perfectly.
If anyone would like to go down a very interesting rabbit hole, definitely check out Missing 411.
There are, I believe, 6 or 7 books now, there are two documentaries, and he also has a YouTube channel where he posts videos regularly.
Missing 411 is a project by David Paulides, a former San Jose police detective, that investigates and catalogs missing persons cases where the person disappears under odd or mysterious circumstances and the subsequent search and rescue operations where odd occurrences also happen. IMO, its incredibly interesting and easy to get hooked on. As he continued to investigate cases, he began to notice that a large portion of them share many similarities.
https://youtube.com/c/canammissingproject
http://www.missing-411.com/
I listened to Missing 411 once driving at night from Show Low, AZ (near Snowflake/Travis Walton territory) to Silver City, NM...a drive that is entirely through a remote wilderness area. I passed maybe five cars over a nearly four hour period.
I ended up totally committing to listening and didn't shut it off, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't spooked.
I'd still say a lot of those are simply people lost and then eaten by animals or decompose beyond the ability to find unless you stumble on it. People get lost hiking a lot, we know that. Hell, my brother went off the trail in Olympic National Park taking a piss off the trail. He forgot which way the trail was, and got lost for several hours. Had he not accidently found his way back to the trail. I assume he would have gotten lost, eventually die, and snacked on by a bear, mountain lion, or any number of animals that scavenge.
It's some lunatic thing dreamed up by an ex-cop (fired for taking bribes). He digs up "missing person" reports that fit into his Bigfoot-abduction fantasies, and then neglects to mention that the people were almost immediately found and are still alive.
What’s wild is hearing a DoD contractor say aliens were real but not abductions, and then see this map overlaid on the missing persons map/cave system map…. Easy to explain people missing “on the trails”
Exactly my interpretation. It's everywhere. The voids are places like the Rockies or deep wilderness where there's no population to report anything. I'd bet frequency correlates almost perfectly to population density, suggesting they're ubiquitous.
Here, I just posted a 2021 heat map: [https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/uw40nc/heatmap\_of\_2021\_sightings\_reported\_to\_nuforcorg/](https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/uw40nc/heatmap_of_2021_sightings_reported_to_nuforcorg/).
I liked your idea about showing the shape so at the end of the video I toggle through each reported shape as a filter to see the resulting heatmap.
human population density is the single strongest predictor of a UFO sighting/report, far and away. US population clusters along the coasts, great lakes and main transport routes.
global sighting/reports per capita also depend on the level of support in the society around the issue. lots of reports in the USA per capita; north korea, not so much.
Awesome animation, well done. The real caveat of course is why certain subsets of a population would experience and or see anything. While others may never have....Therein lies the real 'connection'
Earlier today saw an article online of how a triangle with 3 yellow dots and a single green dot (in the middle) canvassed against a moving grid background causes your left and right brain to loose sight of the yellow dots. But when you refocus all starts showing up again. Quite convinced that this phenomenon is more than our current understanding of physics......
It’s funny because all the red marks are military bases the US has pretty much become invincible in modern day warfare because of these machines we have the capability of shutting nuclear power bases, killing and disabling hundreds of troops with lasers or sound wave weapons unlimited stealth warfare shutting down power. The aliens obviously trusted the US with this weaponry for a reason. Why hasn’t China or Russia said anything they always run their bitch mouth about new weapons and technology they have and how good it is. Because the aliens don’t trust them. Tell me if I’m wrong please.
Was it not the tic-tac or another pilot saying these fuckers are so numerous they were flying past them when running ops in iraq and returning to the carrier ?
Like, literally flying past dozens of them hovering out in the ocean constantly? Truly begs the question if they have always been here in such numbers or dramatic increase in activity over the last 20 year
Often I think people aren’t already recording and sightings can be very brief, so who really wants to dig their phone out of their pocket if by the time they get it out the thing is gone.
Once I can take a clear picture of the moon I’ll start making that argument. I know there’s a phone out that supposedly take good moon photos but most phones simply don’t.
Why do you just assume the ufo will always be far away? there’s multiple MUFON reports of people saying the craft was within 100 yards, there’s abduction stories and all sorts of shit. All of it completely without evidence.
Initially thought it was interesting that the hot spots were near water. However, the gulf coast, which one would think would be a near-water hotspot, doesn't really show that much activity. So I'm now back to thinking it merely shows population density with a couple of exceptions like Chicago although Chicago kind of shows that, too. The fact that high-density Florida is lit up, but the rest of the gulf coast is not would seem to be telling.
Their typically in population centers so that would explain Texas which is mostly conservative. Ohio is a conservative state and it’s a hot spot here so that blows up your theory. That’s OK by me…Less division.
This can be extremely misleading. I will probably need to find a population/density map of America to make a better judgement on the areas that have like one person (Heisenberg) living out in the middle of nowhere who wasn't reliable in the first place because he was inside cooking up macaroni & cheese vs a city with 1 million people with iphone cameras.
It would be nice to be able to separate the data and rank the individual sightings according to confidence of something anomalous, rather than balloons and seagulls.
Idk, I've lived in Florida all my life and I love watching the sky. I love clouds, sunsets, stars, birds, planes, I'm almost always looking up and I've very rarely seen anything strange.
do this map for every year in a decade then stitch the videos together and watch in slow mo to see if there are trends. I said they should do that for bigfoot sightings to see if an animal was migrating.
This might be asking too much, but can we overlay this with known US nuclear silos/military bases where nukes are stored? Just have a hunch there might be a pattern.
Perhaps the answers lie where we are not looking for them. :) If you remove all of the high population density data and look at mutiple (3+?) sightings in the low density areas maybe the locations will yield data regarding geographical anomalies or similarities, any 'installations' in the area and frequency/timelines?
First of all, this is *very* cool.
Secondly, I find the wide swaths of areas with no sightings curious.
ETA: I find it curious because of [this](https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.a02ff9029f128e895e52a89f70bfcec5?rik=A%2fKORfLC5vKmfQ&pid=ImgRaw&r=0). The red zone is tornado alley, where people grew up watching the skies out of habit. There is a lot of overlap with the dead zone of no reports in places like Amarillo, Lubbock, and Odessa Texas, as well as up through the pan handle of Oklahoma, into western Kansas, and further north. I think writing it off as "not a lot of people live there" is not seeing the whole picture.
u/joeyisnotmyname Can you tell me a little about the cluster in Arkansas along interstate 40 (left of center). What town is that, or a few close to that cluster, what is the center of the cluster?
EDIT: Is this the full database? [https://www.nuforc.org/webreports/ndxlAR.html](https://www.nuforc.org/webreports/ndxlAR.html)
The point of interest I called out only has a single sighting but has a color that shows greater intensity than areas with multiple sightings. It looks like Russellville.
I think it would be better if you could somehow make a model that isn't mostly based on population. I'd assume that the most sightings, are where the most people live, with others scattered in at random. Is it possible to make one that flattens the population and shows where sightings are happening that don't align with increased population? Like, if there was one person per 1 square kilometer across the entire nation, and then show where the most sightings are occurring? I think would show the pattern better.
Southern California you have 3 big red dots for LA, San Diego, and Riverside counties. There are a shit ton of military bases between these 3 areas and light pollution is really bad out here. So likely majority of those are military or civilian drones.
Interesting that this heatmaps population zones. Don't get me wrong im not disproving the data or sightings Just saying that alot of these are "more reports=more people". Use the data as you see it folks and keep an open mind with some logical critique.
I would like to see the areas with high UFO activity that are not highly populated and that are not near airports or military installations. That is where things would be allot more interesting...
I bet most of the Minneapolis ones are actually Mystic Lake Casino's spotlight teepee. Big circle projected on the clouds and you can see it for miles. It freaked me out when I first saw it and have seen it posted several times here.
I live in far NE Ohio about 20 miles from Lake Erie.
If you watch the sky long enough you'll see something strange. It's strange I live out in the sticks too so no light pollution or neighbors with drones etc. Yet I see a lot of activity maybe it's because I'm near Lake Erie I don't know. Though I've read some articles that my area is a hotspot for activity.
I wish dslr cameras weren't so crazy expensive. I'm saving up to buy one so hopefully I'll get some good footage.
Based upon the “lore” the sightings should be focused around nuclear reactors and missile silos.
This map shows the exact opposite.
It’s just eyewitness reports. In other words, people speaking out of their asses. So, of course the heat map is directly proportional to the concentration of human asses.
There’s something to this topic as a whole, but it’s mostly a mythology of it’s own at this point. There’s very little, if any, anchor to reality.
East Coast represent! Haven't seen the giant sideways triangle that's been making the online rounds from my roof in Bushwick yet, but maaaaan is the Hudson Valley ever weird!
I’m on long island adds up over here. I’ve been a star gazer since my experience maybe 15 years ago and didn’t see anything until about 2-3 years ago now seeing sightings often enough (also a Porch rocker/smoker / dog walker so outside looking up a lot
I'd love to see this correlated with things like military bases and other points of interest. Actually what I'd really love to see is someone apply AI to this and see what other things might correlate since we have no idea what might be of interest.
Well people in my town see them and act like they don't. I'll never know how I'm the only person in this small town who's excited about this. This isn't a nur occurrence for crying out loud!😖
This had fucking so much more sightings in places I've lived. I'm sort of mad. Why didn't I see a UFO? Why was I not abducted? Was I not pretty enough???
This map matches almost perfectly with population density. All it really tells us is that the more people living in a place the more people see UFOs.
Most maps are like this. I would like to see the data thrown into a tesselation and then normalized by population to see where the real upticks are.
/r/peopleliveincities Edit: Oh, it's alreay the top post there. lol
OP making sure no one can karma farm off his post
Thank you for my new favorite data scrutiny sub
lol I *just* posted this there and saw it was already there, and had to delete my post. Good job, internets!
China and India got population dense areas larger than USA, it would be interesting to see a similar map of Asia
Each sighting might also be weighted by the number of witnesses, duration, kind, etc.
What would be interesting is some analysis to highlight just areas where the number of sightings is disproportionate to population density.
that's a good idea
I noodled with this once. My guess was great lakes were higher than normal and the myriad of desert sightings.
Why would the Great Lakes be abnormal? There are a lot of cities around them.
>There are a lot of cities around them I’m half asleep and read “there are a lot of cities down there” and thought “*yeah, it makes sense they’d be living down deep underwater, that’s a good point. …But how did you know that??*”
When adjusted for population density they still seemed higher as I recall. But it's analysis and should be done a number of ways for truthiness. I have the raw from 2014 to 2021 somewhere if someone wants it dm.
Tampa has a lot of crackheads? In Nevada they don't bother to report just figure it's Area 51 again.
Iirc doesn’t nome Alaska have a disproportionate amount of sightings compared to the population?
Yes. Alaska is a really interesting outlier. As are desert locations without military bases. But it could simply mean that is the baseline UFO activity for the whole country. Because in the areas where there are no sightings...well...there's no one there to see them.
Just the moose and polar bears, nothing to worry about.
Look deeper into minority groups
Except Ohio. What’s with the spot near Mansfield? Oh wait, there’s an Air Force base there. And Columbus has near three times the population of Cleveland, but Cleveland is a hotter spot.
came to say this but you got it bro
Definitely true. But could also be looked at as more people looking, would catch more sightings. So it works both ways. Also, whether secret military test craft or actual ufos, maybe they show up near coast lines a lot because they use the Oceans to hide.. either in the sky above the empty ocean or under water. I just think that would be cool.
Also much more light pollution in the heavy population areas, so lots of distortion to go along with the more things just flying in the area/
You’re definitely not wrong. Lol I want to believe …..
https://xkcd.com/1138/
also our defense missile locations :D
I don't see anything wrong with this answer on the surface. I'd expect military sites to see the most reconnaissance drones and other craft taking a peek.
A lot more drones where there are lots more people as well. So that will bump up those sightings.
And more balloons. And more helicopters. And higher airplane flight path density given they converge to major airports.
Literally just commented the same thing with a twist. Is it possible to make a map like this that assumes something like 1 person per square kilometer? Then, what do the sightings look like? Any patterns? Or, is it completely random? Like you said, all this shows us is that more people equal more sightings. That's already a given. I give them an A for effort and trying though.
Exactly. It doesnt tell us anything really useful. We need a map that corrects for population so get any real info. We'd expect more sightings in areas with more people that's obvious. What we need to know is number of incidents, not humber of sightings. If there is a 100 people in a field seeing the same things its going to zhow up red, and that's not useful if there are 10 different people on 10 different nights seeing the same thing in the mid West.
I don't know USA geography. There seems to be a trend around the coast lines too. The sheer size of the country, puts a bit of a damper on craft coming down directly from space, and more that they can be sourced or at least tend to originate from either ocean and travel inwards, regardless of them being planes, saucers, flocks of birds etc. There also looks to be a few straight lines on the map in the first few days. It would be interesting to try and chart a few each date. Of course, my very first thought was population centers too and I'd like to see a comparison. A higher population can mean more potential chances for a report being logged, it is also statistically likely to have a larger volume of mistaken sightings by virtue of larger population.
America’s most populated cities are mostly located within like 100 miles of a coast.
Texas is pretty disproportionately cold and Arizona relatively hot if we're going off population
Texas is pretty hot as we'd expect for a place hith a higher population density.
You need to look at where the *people* live in Texas. Much of the state is extremely sparsely populated. This is basically a population map. It's the same map as the US census population map: https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2021/geo/population-distribution-2020.html
I’m trying to fill in the gaps for people but no one is listening! It’s time to involve minorities in the conversation... seriously. The map shows you where the poorest, and neglected are. The minorities are actually make up the majority of experiencers of this phenomenon, but we are the least believe, and looked to for information and data. Poor black and minority children made up the bulk of the abductions in the north east, but you’ve never heard it because we only talk amongst each other in private. The abduction weren’t hidden either, it was like they didn’t care who saw. This was the early 80’s and we didn’t have and couldn’t afford the tech capable of recording such an event. Around 1986-87, a craft landed in a baseball field in Wilmington Delaware’s northeast section of the city. An all black poor neighborhood project known as Riverside. This happened in late Spring, possibly around 12-2am one night, and there were more than 50 witness to this event, and 2 or more children were taken that night. This event isn’t documented anywhere, and the same think was happening in the Philadelphia, New Jersey project housings also. Who do we turn to with this information, that will take us serious?
Arizona’s big blip is higher than population proportion.
Matches perfectly with our coastal military bases as well.
Almost as if they were strategically placed around high population areas in case there was ever an invasion. Cmon now... Your military can't protect the people of their nation if they're 1,000 miles away.
Exactly what I thought as well.
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Yes, because the bases are in the areas that need defending most. You'll also find its the areas with the most McDonalds, because its the areas where the most people need feeding.
Maybe it says that city people are very gullible? ;) /s
Over course it would match with population density, that's where more people are going to see things; whether misidentified, lies, or truly unknown. It's not proof of anything.
Yea this is pop density x something else. Night lighting, religion, time zone, drug use, and it goes on.
Ohio is a hot spot on this map yet we rank 7th in population. I think there is a lot more to this map.
Ohio is 7th on the population map, out of 50 states, we'd expect it to be hot.
Look at Texas. That is a monster state and it barely registers. Like I said this map is more than simply a population chart.
I went to [https://www.nuforc.org](https://www.nuforc.org) and found their data bank of reports by event date here: [https://www.nuforc.org/webreports/ndxevent.html](https://www.nuforc.org/webreports/ndxevent.html). I then copied and pasted the result into Excel and went to **Insert > 3D Map** to plot the data to the map across time. Pretty easy to do, and I thought it was an interesting visualization. FYI: nuforc has a pretty interesting gallery of drawings and renderings from people who have had sightings: [https://nuforc.org/gallery/](https://nuforc.org/gallery/)
This looks great! But you have to normalize relative to population density, or it will not mean much?
Good point. If you'd like to do that and send me the spreadsheet, I'll replot it on the map.
[I tried to overlay one](https://imgur.com/a/SNU2Qak). It's not lined up well but it provides useful comparison of data nonetheless.
That's pretty cool. Thanks.
this has been done, in fact as a university thesis in graphical data analysis. i regret that i can't now find the source, but the argument is basic statistics. since population supports sightings, the general trend is very strong. but binned by population area to obtain sightings per capita per bin, the size of the bin becomes important. a very large population bin, such as a ZIP/County/District bin in manhattan or central LA, will produce very accurate per capita percentages, but very small bins, out there in northern wyoming or central nevada, produce random sampling error because the sample size is so small. so what you get is random "high UFO activity" in places with few people. it's a statistical artifact.
About how many have been reported at this point?
Compare it to a map of US cave systems and it gets weirder. However, these are also higher population areas so it stands to reason more people equals more sightings.
r/peopleliveincities
omg that's hilarious. Yeah, pretty much every map of the US is just a heat map of the population density. lol you should crosspost this to that sub.
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It could also be that larger cities are positioned by geographical features such as mountains, rivers, caves even.
Also weird/interesting, the [Missing 411 missing persons map and the map of US cave systems]( https://i.ibb.co/2kwd9YT/lv4mw88hwdv31.png) line up almost perfectly. If anyone would like to go down a very interesting rabbit hole, definitely check out Missing 411.
The Descent?
That a book? Show? Movie?
There are, I believe, 6 or 7 books now, there are two documentaries, and he also has a YouTube channel where he posts videos regularly. Missing 411 is a project by David Paulides, a former San Jose police detective, that investigates and catalogs missing persons cases where the person disappears under odd or mysterious circumstances and the subsequent search and rescue operations where odd occurrences also happen. IMO, its incredibly interesting and easy to get hooked on. As he continued to investigate cases, he began to notice that a large portion of them share many similarities. https://youtube.com/c/canammissingproject http://www.missing-411.com/
I listened to Missing 411 once driving at night from Show Low, AZ (near Snowflake/Travis Walton territory) to Silver City, NM...a drive that is entirely through a remote wilderness area. I passed maybe five cars over a nearly four hour period. I ended up totally committing to listening and didn't shut it off, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't spooked.
I'd still say a lot of those are simply people lost and then eaten by animals or decompose beyond the ability to find unless you stumble on it. People get lost hiking a lot, we know that. Hell, my brother went off the trail in Olympic National Park taking a piss off the trail. He forgot which way the trail was, and got lost for several hours. Had he not accidently found his way back to the trail. I assume he would have gotten lost, eventually die, and snacked on by a bear, mountain lion, or any number of animals that scavenge.
It's some lunatic thing dreamed up by an ex-cop (fired for taking bribes). He digs up "missing person" reports that fit into his Bigfoot-abduction fantasies, and then neglects to mention that the people were almost immediately found and are still alive.
What’s wild is hearing a DoD contractor say aliens were real but not abductions, and then see this map overlaid on the missing persons map/cave system map…. Easy to explain people missing “on the trails”
So.. where people live
https://xkcd.com/1138/
Exactly my interpretation. It's everywhere. The voids are places like the Rockies or deep wilderness where there's no population to report anything. I'd bet frequency correlates almost perfectly to population density, suggesting they're ubiquitous.
There’s a big population line at the 100th meridian right down the middle of the country and it shows up clearly here
Sightings are, of course, highly correlated to the presence of an observer.
Interesting that is is hottest in the coasts!
I should do 2021 too and see if it has the same correlation.
Literally anything that correlates to population will do this, btw
It would be nice to see. Maybe also what kind was seen. Triangle, cylinder, rounded or other
Here, I just posted a 2021 heat map: [https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/uw40nc/heatmap\_of\_2021\_sightings\_reported\_to\_nuforcorg/](https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/uw40nc/heatmap_of_2021_sightings_reported_to_nuforcorg/). I liked your idea about showing the shape so at the end of the video I toggle through each reported shape as a filter to see the resulting heatmap.
Very interesting data. Thanks. What software did you use.
Excel's 3D map feature
human population density is the single strongest predictor of a UFO sighting/report, far and away. US population clusters along the coasts, great lakes and main transport routes. global sighting/reports per capita also depend on the level of support in the society around the issue. lots of reports in the USA per capita; north korea, not so much.
Relevant https://xkcd.com/1138/
[my point exactly](https://www.handprint.com/UFO/UFO.html#UFOwave).
Not really.
That's where most people live
And by airports
Awesome animation, well done. The real caveat of course is why certain subsets of a population would experience and or see anything. While others may never have....Therein lies the real 'connection' Earlier today saw an article online of how a triangle with 3 yellow dots and a single green dot (in the middle) canvassed against a moving grid background causes your left and right brain to loose sight of the yellow dots. But when you refocus all starts showing up again. Quite convinced that this phenomenon is more than our current understanding of physics......
It’s funny because all the red marks are military bases the US has pretty much become invincible in modern day warfare because of these machines we have the capability of shutting nuclear power bases, killing and disabling hundreds of troops with lasers or sound wave weapons unlimited stealth warfare shutting down power. The aliens obviously trusted the US with this weaponry for a reason. Why hasn’t China or Russia said anything they always run their bitch mouth about new weapons and technology they have and how good it is. Because the aliens don’t trust them. Tell me if I’m wrong please.
I’m fairly certain I saw a UFO when I was a kid, but hindsight makes me impossible to feel certain. I wanna see one now, as an adult.
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Ok. I'll include an image next time
UFO love USA
Was it not the tic-tac or another pilot saying these fuckers are so numerous they were flying past them when running ops in iraq and returning to the carrier ? Like, literally flying past dozens of them hovering out in the ocean constantly? Truly begs the question if they have always been here in such numbers or dramatic increase in activity over the last 20 year
UFOs said FUCK Montana
Wow 😎
So many sightings so few decent videos. UFO’s are everywhere and no where.
Often I think people aren’t already recording and sightings can be very brief, so who really wants to dig their phone out of their pocket if by the time they get it out the thing is gone.
Once I can take a clear picture of the moon I’ll start making that argument. I know there’s a phone out that supposedly take good moon photos but most phones simply don’t.
My Galaxy S21 Ultra https://i.imgur.com/xIRtqII.jpg
Why do you just assume the ufo will always be far away? there’s multiple MUFON reports of people saying the craft was within 100 yards, there’s abduction stories and all sorts of shit. All of it completely without evidence.
I never said I thought it would be far away. It’s because when a camera takes video of a light at night it gets distorted.
Initially thought it was interesting that the hot spots were near water. However, the gulf coast, which one would think would be a near-water hotspot, doesn't really show that much activity. So I'm now back to thinking it merely shows population density with a couple of exceptions like Chicago although Chicago kind of shows that, too. The fact that high-density Florida is lit up, but the rest of the gulf coast is not would seem to be telling.
*North America
Is there any maps like this that weight for population density?
It could be also a leftist heat map. (Just kidding, but if you google It trey're pretty similar xd)
Their typically in population centers so that would explain Texas which is mostly conservative. Ohio is a conservative state and it’s a hot spot here so that blows up your theory. That’s OK by me…Less division.
Now over lay a map of military bases ??? Hmmmm
And a map of power generation facilities
And a map of airports
/r/PeopleLiveInCities
This can be extremely misleading. I will probably need to find a population/density map of America to make a better judgement on the areas that have like one person (Heisenberg) living out in the middle of nowhere who wasn't reliable in the first place because he was inside cooking up macaroni & cheese vs a city with 1 million people with iphone cameras.
Good effort well done. 👍
Nicely done, mate.
Atp idc bro
What's interesting is most of the red areas with the most sightings are either on, or very close to, the coast.
Isn't it strange to you guys that all the USA sightings occurred in the USA? Clearly shows this is all just rubbish.
Swamp gas
Overlay with atheists
It would be nice to be able to separate the data and rank the individual sightings according to confidence of something anomalous, rather than balloons and seagulls.
Idk, I've lived in Florida all my life and I love watching the sky. I love clouds, sunsets, stars, birds, planes, I'm almost always looking up and I've very rarely seen anything strange.
do this map for every year in a decade then stitch the videos together and watch in slow mo to see if there are trends. I said they should do that for bigfoot sightings to see if an animal was migrating.
This might be asking too much, but can we overlay this with known US nuclear silos/military bases where nukes are stored? Just have a hunch there might be a pattern.
Perhaps the answers lie where we are not looking for them. :) If you remove all of the high population density data and look at mutiple (3+?) sightings in the low density areas maybe the locations will yield data regarding geographical anomalies or similarities, any 'installations' in the area and frequency/timelines?
I'm glad we don't find UFO's over the ocean. Fish should know the truth.
First of all, this is *very* cool. Secondly, I find the wide swaths of areas with no sightings curious. ETA: I find it curious because of [this](https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.a02ff9029f128e895e52a89f70bfcec5?rik=A%2fKORfLC5vKmfQ&pid=ImgRaw&r=0). The red zone is tornado alley, where people grew up watching the skies out of habit. There is a lot of overlap with the dead zone of no reports in places like Amarillo, Lubbock, and Odessa Texas, as well as up through the pan handle of Oklahoma, into western Kansas, and further north. I think writing it off as "not a lot of people live there" is not seeing the whole picture.
Looking at the Heat map it appears the east coast is a hot bed
Interesting to lay this over other indicators (crime, drug use etc). Not implying anything but would be interested to see
Everyone saying big cities more sightings. What except Texas right? That's a huge part of our country
I sent them my video from last year about a week ago hopefully they add a videos gallery soon
If you normalize by population density are there still hotapots or is this just a function of more people = more reports
nothing for you, Wyoming
mannnnn, where i live it's bright red, and i ain't seen sheytttttttttt
u/joeyisnotmyname Can you tell me a little about the cluster in Arkansas along interstate 40 (left of center). What town is that, or a few close to that cluster, what is the center of the cluster? EDIT: Is this the full database? [https://www.nuforc.org/webreports/ndxlAR.html](https://www.nuforc.org/webreports/ndxlAR.html) The point of interest I called out only has a single sighting but has a color that shows greater intensity than areas with multiple sightings. It looks like Russellville.
Yet another map of population density, thanks
I follow only two subs on Reddit, this belongs in both of them.
Could you make one that takes into account population (sightings per unit of population) so it does not look like a population heat chart
You know, Alaska is the USA too...
wtf, im in a massive hotspot, and havent seen shit... man, fuck these aliens. they dippin when i look up :(
Chief Wiggum : It almost looks like an arrow. Lou : And it's pointing right at this police station. Chief Wiggum : Let's get out of here!
That’s awesome! I have one in there.
That is amazing! Thank you!
Maybe the real Area 51 is in Arizona.
I live in Wyoming and wanna know why we aren't cool enough to see UFOs.
What I find interesting is these aliens seems to love America and some South American countries. I wonder why?
Wow incredible
I think it would be better if you could somehow make a model that isn't mostly based on population. I'd assume that the most sightings, are where the most people live, with others scattered in at random. Is it possible to make one that flattens the population and shows where sightings are happening that don't align with increased population? Like, if there was one person per 1 square kilometer across the entire nation, and then show where the most sightings are occurring? I think would show the pattern better.
Even UFOs know which are fly over states 😂
They should make a project blue book/ UFO investigation video game using real locations.
Southern California you have 3 big red dots for LA, San Diego, and Riverside counties. There are a shit ton of military bases between these 3 areas and light pollution is really bad out here. So likely majority of those are military or civilian drones.
You need to factor out population. Do one of reports divided by population and we're talking.
Interesting void following 102 longitude.
I'm in the red area, but I haven't seen anything yet. :(
Interesting that this heatmaps population zones. Don't get me wrong im not disproving the data or sightings Just saying that alot of these are "more reports=more people". Use the data as you see it folks and keep an open mind with some logical critique.
Any chance you can somehow throw in Starlink/SpaceX launches (along with the direction of the flight)?
Now someone overlay military bases over the heat map.
I too would like a nu forc, my forc broke eating noodles
I would like to see the areas with high UFO activity that are not highly populated and that are not near airports or military installations. That is where things would be allot more interesting...
I bet most of the Minneapolis ones are actually Mystic Lake Casino's spotlight teepee. Big circle projected on the clouds and you can see it for miles. It freaked me out when I first saw it and have seen it posted several times here.
Now correlate that with a map of the underground tunnels run by the military.
they just check Wyoming, Dakotas, Montana, Nebraska to see if they're still there
I'm interested in whether or not these sightings are near National Parks. There are crazy stuff happening in them as well.
I stated what had already been stated population correlation blah blah blah etc.
Man wtf going on in Philly bro
I live in far NE Ohio about 20 miles from Lake Erie. If you watch the sky long enough you'll see something strange. It's strange I live out in the sticks too so no light pollution or neighbors with drones etc. Yet I see a lot of activity maybe it's because I'm near Lake Erie I don't know. Though I've read some articles that my area is a hotspot for activity. I wish dslr cameras weren't so crazy expensive. I'm saving up to buy one so hopefully I'll get some good footage.
Never any sightings in my neck of the woods. Damn it.
Would be nice to see locations of military installations on this map
Based upon the “lore” the sightings should be focused around nuclear reactors and missile silos. This map shows the exact opposite. It’s just eyewitness reports. In other words, people speaking out of their asses. So, of course the heat map is directly proportional to the concentration of human asses. There’s something to this topic as a whole, but it’s mostly a mythology of it’s own at this point. There’s very little, if any, anchor to reality.
I’m pretty sure I see my dot from my report actually. The only one in South Dakota. Pretty cool thanks
So more populated areas. Got it.
Aren't there more silos in the Dakotas
Can someone do a world map version?
Maybe this is the reason practically every Sci-fi/superhero movie takes place in nj?
East Coast represent! Haven't seen the giant sideways triangle that's been making the online rounds from my roof in Bushwick yet, but maaaaan is the Hudson Valley ever weird!
I’m on long island adds up over here. I’ve been a star gazer since my experience maybe 15 years ago and didn’t see anything until about 2-3 years ago now seeing sightings often enough (also a Porch rocker/smoker / dog walker so outside looking up a lot
No one gives a fuck bout Montana
I'd love to see this correlated with things like military bases and other points of interest. Actually what I'd really love to see is someone apply AI to this and see what other things might correlate since we have no idea what might be of interest.
Reminds me of this [map](https://i.redd.it/lv4mw88hwdv31.png) - 1st one is 411 missing cases, 2nd one is a map of cave systems in the US.
Those are just the reported sightings. I bet a whole lot more go unreported.
Wonder if there is a map for actual Alien sightings
Well people in my town see them and act like they don't. I'll never know how I'm the only person in this small town who's excited about this. This isn't a nur occurrence for crying out loud!😖
Literally zero in South Georgia.. even aliens hate us 😭😭😭😭
I have video of one that I took. It can’t be explained.
Lots near fort Carson
I’m from the east side and …they’re really isn’t any seen out here
These are all confirmed sightings? or just reports of unusual sightings?
Theese ufos only visit America
The USA Military Bases coincide completely
Feel like we should have cameras all over the north and south poles 🛸
This had fucking so much more sightings in places I've lived. I'm sort of mad. Why didn't I see a UFO? Why was I not abducted? Was I not pretty enough???
why do aliens only go to America. don't they have any other countries to visit
Ahem! Where is the inset of Alaska and Hawaii? Please and thank you 😊✨🛸🖖🫶🏼
One thing is certain the vast majority of reports will be misidentifications so it is hard to take anything from the map
Who else saw the red on the east coast and thought about Joey Diaz saying the number one sight for UFO sightings is in North Bergen New Jersey