More Serious UFO Reporting

[Wade]

Isn't it kind of odd that the US gets the most UFO (proclaimed) sightings.. In germany we get one every 2 years or so, might have to do with 'nuclear capabilities', wonder what Russia has stored and filed.

part of the answer would probably be that because a UFO can be practically anything, i'm sure a number of reports are off the books black ops craft. Having said that, i guess Great Britian and France are pretty far ahead of Germany in the sightings in Europe Here is a wikipedia site showing the capacity of nuclear power plants by capacity

RankCountryCapacity (MW)​

(2012)[12]Nuclear share of​

electricity production[12]​

1​

United States​

101,576 19.0%

2​

France​

63,130 74.8%

3​

Japan​

46,934 18.1%

4​

Russia​

23,643 17.8%

5​

South Korea​

20,739 30.4%

6​

Germany​

12,068 16.1%

7​

Ukraine​

13,107 46.2%

8​

Canada​

14,135 15.3%

9​

China​

12,850 2.0%

10​

United Kingdom​

9,938 18.1%


from Curious About Astronomy: Why do so many of the world's UFO sightings happen in America?

"...
But that's not to say that people haven't looked at the claims of UFO sightings scientifically. In particular, the distribution of UFO sightings across the globe might be of interest. The best resource I've found on this subject is this page. According to the statistics compiled on that site, the United States has the most sightings of any single country, followed by France and Great Britain. (Though I haven't looked at it carefully enough to pick out the countries with the most sightings per capita.)

I think the most interesting map on that site is the distribution of sightings in Europe. France and Great Britain have many more sightings than Germany, even though Germany has a larger population than either of those two countries. You can find similar discrepancies all over the world. There's more than one way to interpret data like this. But to me, it seems a little far-fetched that aliens would recognize national borders, and visit one country much more than another if the two countries are geographically close, and similar in population, population density, and economic development. So a map like this suggests to me that UFO sightings are likely to be a cultural phenomenon..."

the question was from a 2003 posting amd the information on the site appears to be dated from 2006






UFO Sightings Map: Europe, all dates

 

[Atticus11]

This came off sounding dickish:

I give kudos when people deserve kudos. "Ufology" appeared that he needed encouragement to take the first few steps out of the cult and I offered it. In any case, I'm not going to apologize for offering supportive words to someone who is open to the idea of de-programming themselves. SORZ, bro.

 

[Atticus11]

Popular Mechanics cataloged the five biggest cities for most UFO sightings in their 2009 issue. They were LA, Seattle, Phoenix, San Diego and Chicago. Of course, these are also among the 15 largest cities in the U.S. (UFO Hotspots Map - How to Report a UFO Sighting - Popular Mechanics)

They cataloged the five rural counties with most UFO sightings. They all corresponded to restricted military flight zones, none of which were known storage sites for nuclear weapons. So, does (a) the Ashtar High Command of the Galactic Federation of Light want to learn how helicopters work, or, (b) are people seeing flight maneuvers they don't understand and saying ...

(HINT: it's "B")

 

[dyingsun]

That's interesting. I get hits at my website from Germany than any other country except the US and it's really not even close.

Might have to do with the word 'Partisan' though (btw, I like your website, maybe it just 'speaks' to those of german nationality in a special way ).

 

[dyingsun]

Popular Mechanics cataloged the five biggest cities for most UFO sightings in their 2009 issue. They were LA, Seattle, Phoenix, San Diego and Chicago. Of course, these are also among the 15 largest cities in the U.S. (UFO Hotspots Map - How to Report a UFO Sighting - Popular Mechanics)

They cataloged the five rural counties with most UFO sightings. They all corresponded to restricted military flight zones, none of which were known storage sites for nuclear weapons. So, does (a) the Ashtar High Command of the Galactic Federation of Light want to learn how helicopters work, or, (b) are people seeing flight maneuvers they don't understand and saying ...

(HINT: it's "B")

You are aware you are not on ATS here, right ? Great start, duder.

 

[Atticus11]

You are aware you are not on ATS here, right ? Great start, duder.

I'm aware a zoologist can tell the difference between a pigeon and a grey dove and that I'm not a zoologist.

(Do you understand what I mean by that? This is a new metaphor I've coined to describe the nuanced levels of respectabiliy strata on which ufologists place themselves but which the world at large just sees as a monolithic mass of WTF. For instance in another thread I read that someone felt Rob Hastings should brand his space aliens as more respectable than Steve Greer's space aliens and that notion gave me a bit of a chuckle to think Rob Hastings was trying to be the Coca-Cola of space aliens against Steve Greer's RC Cola aliens [even though no one can tell the difference in a blind taste test]. Anyway, would appreciate some feedback.)

 

[dyingsun]

Oh yes, here we go.

 

[dyingsun]

Or not, after recent outbursts I wanted to restrain myself. Oh..strata. Us Ufologists here..

 

[Randall]

I'm not going to play hide-the-sausage. In the world of reality and legitimate scientific exploration and inquiry, we speak like adults and provide frank informative facts. We don't start phrases with "here's a hint ..." as a bed of spooky synthesizer music plays underneath.

Either you looked it up - like I've suggested 7 times now - and you'll share with us what you found, or - like dozens of others in this thread - you were too terrified at the possibility your belief system would be challenged and didn't.

Unless you've checked the database yourself it's pointless to continue this line of investigation with you. Either of us could simply be making this all up. So if you want to play by your rules, then let's play. Fill in the rest of the ID and we can talk, otherwise you're wasting our time.

 

[dyingsun]

By the way, with 'Ufologists'...

 

[pixelsmith]

Popular Mechanics cataloged the five biggest cities for most UFO sightings in their 2009 issue. They were LA, Seattle, Phoenix, San Diego and Chicago. Of course, these are also among the 15 largest cities in the U.S. (UFO Hotspots Map - How to Report a UFO Sighting - Popular Mechanics)

They cataloged the five rural counties with most UFO sightings. They all corresponded to restricted military flight zones, none of which were known storage sites for nuclear weapons. So, does (a) the Ashtar High Command of the Galactic Federation of Light want to learn how helicopters work, or, (b) are people seeing flight maneuvers they don't understand and saying ...

(HINT: it's "B")

Popular Mechanics... LMAO... good one..

Unknown craft that hover, fly around, get chased by fighter jets and are not acknowledged/reported by airport towers and FAA are real. I know this for a fact.

 

[Atticus11]

Fill in the rest of the ID and we can talk

Once again, I don't play Hide-the-Sausage. If you want your little Ufology hobby to be taken seriously, you need to act seriously.

Did you check the database I provided you? Would you like to offer the other users relevant and pertinent information on Jim Courant, the subject of this thread, that you found there? Or, is it more fun - a bigger part of the excitement and fantasy - to "hint" at things with a bed of spooky synthesizer music playing underneath (the communicative M.O. of all ufologists)?

When you start to treat your hobby frankly and in a serious, adult fashion people might take it frankly and in a serious, adult fashion. Until then it will get the respect it deserves - absolutely none:

 

[Atticus11]

Unknown craft that hover, fly around, get chased by fighter jets and are not acknowledged/reported by airport towers and FAA are real. I know this for a fact.

By "know for a fact" do you mean Arzuul XVI, warrior-king of Lemuria, told you in a channeling session?

Ufologists play words like "fact" and "evidence" pretty fast and loose so it's always worthwhile to ask for clarification.

 

[Randall]

Once again ...

Let's see how that ignore button works. Hmmm ... not as good as I'd like, but it will have to do.

 

[Atticus11]

do what you gotta do, bro

 

[pixelsmith]

By "know for a fact" do you mean Arzuul XVI, warrior-king of Lemuria, told you in a channeling session?

Ufologists play words like "fact" and "evidence" pretty fast and loose so it's always worthwhile to ask for clarification.

My girlfriend and I saw one hovering around near our home and we followed it at up to 80 mph or so until a fighter jet came up from behind us and escorted the UFO out of sight, within a few minutes I was on the phone with the local airport tower and was told there was nothing on radar, not even the fighter jet, I was then transfered to FAA by the airport where I was told nothing was in the area.

 

[Atticus11]

within a few minutes I was on the phone with the local airport tower

What time of day/day of week did this happen, what airport did you call and what is the control tower's phone number you used?

 

[dyingsun]

Troll much, Atticus11 ? It's God-king of Shambalah the Golden, by the way, but thanks for showing us how long you've been with us, one without name.

 

[Goggs Mackay]

Isn't it kind of odd that the US gets the most UFO (proclaimed) sightings.. In germany we get one every 2 years or so, might have to do with 'nuclear capabilities', wonder what Russia has stored and filed.

I think there are probably far more in Germany, as Polter has often said, there is a real cultural bias against such things in Germany these days.

One thing that absolutely does seem almost (but not totally) unique to the US is the abduction phenomena. Two possibilities exist in my mind. Either people are culturally conditioned to experience certain phenomena as alien entities messing with them, or the US did a deal with an ET race that gave that race 'permission' to conduct experiments on a number of citizens. Even if the second option was true I'd still think the number reported was just way too high. When I see many US 'abductees' talking about it I cannot escape the feeling they are just attention seekers. But that would still not explain all of them. Any way you look at it, it's still very worthy of research.

 

[dyingsun]

Same here, Goggs, seems us in europe get the occasional demonic possession, but concerning anything about ET abduction..nothing..nothing at all here.Nothing in the UK either ? Which made me wonder..Robert Hastings may be on to something, but other then the Rendlesham Case..where no abduction took place either, but what I was getting at is countries with nuclear weapons.

(Sense..I know the above reads awful, sorry or that)