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Sad to see so many dots around newfoundland but I’m also not that surprised lol
“No, Dean, you were just drunk again”
Sad to see so many dots around newfoundland but I’m also not that surprised lol
Not a lot of people know this, but until they invent interstellar jet engines the aliens have to stop in Gander to refuel before going on to the US.
Americans trying to explain why the map looks like this
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Do you think the US has more people than all of Asia or something?
No, but in this case it’s not just population. If some potato farmer in northern Asia sees a UFO (especially before the proliferation of smartphones), how would it be reported and appear on this map? Lots of other reports come from pilots and such and again, far different distribution between continents.
Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. “Mankind.” That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can’t be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it’s fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom… Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution… but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: “We will not go quietly into the night!” We will not vanish without a fight! We’re going to live on! We’re going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!
Between him and Morgan Freeman, the U.S. has had some really good presidents.
The defining speech of President Whitmore. Right up there with the Gettysburg address.
He had his flaws, but I still think of him as our greatest president.
And what’s that weird dividing line in the middle? Do they just stop and go: “nope, gotta focus on the East Coast, sorry bruh”?
Less people live in that line
Oh, you don’t know about the line? Believe it or not, the line is actually real:
“Why 80% of Americans Live East of This Line”
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For the lazy: it’s cause there is less water after than line.
Oooh, so these aliens are attracted to water!
It’s the opposite. Watch the movie Signs.
I mean, even if alien sightings were real you would expect them to correlate with population density. Fewer people means fewer people that can spot aliens.
More humans -> more alien sightings
Perhaps we’ve been the aliens all along.
Which is why even the trees obey the line. Thanks, Rocky Mountain rain shadow!
XKCD population density maps
Lmao is it just me or is the entirety of Hawaii lit the fuck up
How could it „be just you“?
I guess a better phrasing would be “do my eyes deceive me or is the entirety of Hawaii lit the fuck up”
Fuck yeah that’s better!
You know, I do wonder what the map of cell phone and camera sales would look like overlaid onto this…
You tend to get less reports of things in areas with much, much lower population densities. The map is as much a population density map as it is a UFO sighting one
it’s basically a population map combined with communication access
IIRC this was a study (survey?) done by a American company.
There are tons of UFO sighting in plenty of non-NA or EU countries such as Brazil and South Africa
I was wondering why the sightings were dominated by English speaking countries, this may be the reason. Thanks.
^ this is true.
This post is insanely misleading.
Like every shit post about aliens lately. Shit got old like immediately. Wake me up when we have actual evidence. Not just abductive reasoning.
^ this guy is right.
^ made the right call here
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I’d like to add that for many countries like mine, a UFO sighting wouldn’t even register as “unidentified” or having an outer space origin. The locals would attribute it to something religious instead.
Berrrrr. VWOOP! widdle widdle, shooom. Pew, pew, pew. Buh luh luh luh luh luh. So sayeth the lord. Amen.
And now we paint ourselves green and dance in his shiny circular beamy holy goodness.
You ain’t gotta give, but I’m taking donations. If your neighbor don’t drop a dollarydoo in the plate, don’t judge him too harshly.
LOL I’d donate
We have a lot of nuclear weapons…
Not surprising at all. There are enough nukes to destroy more than the 1 planet all the nukes are on. Of course this is going to raise concern in the intergalactic community especially with how backwards our politics are.
They probably see Earth the same way the rest of the world sees North Korea.
Also the map of countries with black site projects
And very coincidentally and unrelated: gigantic military spending that unexpectedly can’t be fully accounted for. Strange!
No but it 's different this time!
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I saw an alien.
It was between 2010-2014 and i was recently gifted my first phone. A used Sony Ericsson w300i. Fast forward a few weeks later, i was on the roof playing with the filters on the phone camera. One of them was a Sepia filter and as i tried it, i randomly pointed it toward the sky and then toward the sun. That’s when i saw a small dark object hovering near the very bright sun as to hide using it. It was shaped like a sphere and seemed very far up in the sky. It was very fast, it’s movement unnatural as it was doing oval shaped circles around the sun.
People think that things like cameras and radar are perfect instruments. They can be overloaded by things like pointing them at the sun, internal reflections, radar can have false signals, etc. I once thought I saw a UFO while in a car and then realized it was just an internal reflection of a light off of the glass. It looked like it was moving super fast and everything.
People will also do things like over expand compressed videos and images and then act surprised when they see compression artifacts and think they are real.
You should see commercial radar systems operating in choppy water. Millions of yellow dots that appear and disappear. Aliens? No, literally just returns from waves. But if you turn the sensitivity down too far, now you can’t see jet skis and sailboats.
I like that someone downvoted you.
But in all seriousness, me and a friend of mine once saw a flying object that matches your description, except it was around 4am and we were on the beach, camping. At some point, it flew into the horizon (really freaking fast, headed to a different country, so I doubt it was a drone). No drugs were involved.
When I was a teen I was outside with my step-brother playing catch late at night in the street and we saw one. Never talked about because we felt like idiots. I still do.
I like the “no drugs involved” part. We’re describing something we saw with our own eyes and yet is so outlandish we can only accept that people wouldn’t believe us.
I am not judging you and when I was a kid, I too saw some shit. Many people have, it’s very common. What’s up for debate is whether it’s aliens or not, is all.
You say you saw it with your own eyes, but you were looking through a camera. That’s not the same thing.
Wait, so you were using an old phone that had an ancient sensor? You then pointed that ancient sensor at the sun and a dark spot showed up? Most likely at the most exposed portion of the sensor and you’re saying that was a UFO?
Then why did it disappear later ? If it was an over exposed camera shouldn’t it show up every time not only once ?
Are you asserting that ‘Aliens’ is a much more likely answer in your scenario than ‘image sensor issue’?
I knew i should’ve written UFO as in unidentified flying object and that it was a mistake using the word alien as it tends to have heavy connotation with green men and wackos. No,i don’t believe aliens are traveling light years and playing hide and seek with us. I saw some weird shit and want to understand what it was. I was told it was caused by overexposure and i answered that it happened only once and that as far as i know it should be repeatable but i didn’t.
I don’t think you’re crazy and you saw what you saw. It probably just wasn’t aliens, it was likely some astronomical phenomenon. You could’ve seen a comet or an asteroid or a planet passing over the sun, that’s what your description sounds like to me, anyway.
I can’t tell if this is a joke or not. I mean no reasonable person would conclude aliens from a flip phone camera using filter pointed directly at the sun with one of the worst lenses ever built for a camera in history.
I mean I laughed, so well done if that was the intent.
If my story have made someone less miserable for a few seconds then am happy i shared it.
I’ll give kind of the opposite story. An Illinois town’s PD has made the news at least twice for chasing a UFO. In the 80s they were on some TV special about unexplained events, talking about the time they chased a triangular-shaped UFO for a long time. I remember watching that, and then going to the nearby air base for an air show, complete with a triangular-shaped stealth bomber…
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Apparently, aliens are very interested in anglophone countries
Its probably not entirely fair distribution you’re seeing. This starts way back in 1906? A country like China didn’t even have any tech growth till around the year 2000 basically. They don’t even have an open policy of sharing such things. Russia did for the longest time, but it’s limited due to the population distribution (basically 80% lives near the western border) so an enormous amount of ground is never watched let alone “stuff” being reported… let alone that “stuff” getting out to media or the public.
The EU has always had a more open policy regarding UFO’s, especially Belgium shared a lot of footage over the years. But also much of South America openly shared stuff for the longest time. It’s only been the USA that turned into a “joke” but due to the paranoia people get whenever a government starts to deny things they first admitted too, people start to report anything and everything.
