Top States with Highest Reported UFO Sightings

Good Morning America ran a segment earlier this month regarding ufo sightings in America. They detailed the Top 10 States by number with reported ufo sightings. They also listed the place and the date where the last sighting was in that state.

The top three states with reported UFO sightings were California (11,202),  Florida (5,113) and Washington (5,004). Each state also reported a sighting in March of this year. The article is from earlier in April so we can just guess there have been reported sightings in April as well. You can read the blurb for each sate at the source.

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Map of UFO Sightings Since 1933

Digital cartographer Levi Pearson has taken sightings information from the National UFO Reporting Center and placed it all together into the map you see below.

The map does, however, represent a great use of location-based data – and CartoDB. And it provides a nice snapshot of where and when sightings have surged and dipped over nearly 100 years, as Pearson noted in his blog post:

The first thing that jumped out was the increase in sightings during the 1950s and 1960s. It turns out that the CIA’s U2 program may be responsible for several of these report. In late 2014 the CIA took to Twitter to take credit for nearly HALF of the UFO reporting in the 1950s. – Source

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