Photo: Medina, Brewer & Kirkpatrick. Sci Rep (2023)
A rather exhaustive new study of UFO reports found that one is most likely to spot anomalous aerial phenomena if they are in the western part of the United States. Detailing their work in a press release, geographers from the University of Utah explained that the project was based on insights from nearly 100,000 cases submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center between the years 2000 and 2020. With that two-decades-worth of data, the researchers then looked at environmental factors might explain why a location might have a particularly high or low number of UFO sightings.
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