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    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

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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.

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        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.

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      I was wondering why the sightings were dominated by English speaking countries, this may be the reason. Thanks.

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      If you think the most English speakers live in the US and UK I’ve got some very surprising news for you

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        Most native speakers live in the U.S. and the UK based on population numbers. We’re talking over 400 million native speakers.

        But as far non-native speakers, Google tells me that’s India. But most English speakers in India don’t speak it as their first language. They learned it in school, they didn’t grow up speaking it at home.

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          How many people eat food because they know they need it vs because they just want it. I think chronic boredom is like that but worse and far more subtle. It amplifies a lot of our other issues, such as adhd and obesity.

          And I don’t think you need to be bored to enjoy good entertainment. Not to mention the industry runs on greed mostly. It would be in their interest that people didn’t find the problem as that could lead to people finding a cure. How would e.g. Netflix keep profiting from producing such poor content? How about those who profit so much from feeding ads to our brain dead states?

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    I think its a mix of idiots everywhere, and the government secretly testing prototype aircraft. The idiots see the prototype aircraft, don’t recognize it, and immediately go “eyljuhns!”

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    This is my biggest problem with believing anything alien related; how come all of the video evidence is taken on a phone camera from 2001, and the fact basically all sightings happen in the US?

    The people making this shit up have to try harder than that!

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      There’s a somewhat rational theory that Roswell happened because it was the site of the nuclear bomb testings and aliens “only try to contact civs that are at splitting the atom tech level”.

      It has some merit to it, but yeah, look at that map. Hardly convincing when looking at the reported sightings.

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    When the first dinosaur bone was discovered, noone had heard about it before and people believed that bones they found before were from some animals

    After people knew about dinosaurs they started finding them other places in the world at a rapid pace. Many people thought it was all a hoax

    So you know, unless you know about them you don’t know what to report. And americans think most about aliens I guess.

    That being said, probably there aren’t secret aliens around. probably 🫣

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      So… what were they mistaking the aliens for?

      I mean, the actual verified “alien craft” in America is actually more of a “not sure what that is” grainy footage in an age where Donald Trump tweeted out classified satellite images that showed the cameras we use are actually far more advanced and show far more detail than any we knew existed. And that technology was over a decade old at the time!

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        I think its like bigfoot / mothman etc - once someone in your area is talking about seeing a thing, it increases the likelihood you will think you saw that thing specifically next time you see something that would be otherwise unexplainable to you

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      I have several relatives who “see” plots all the time. Every time I deal with them I get to hear about them. Bet you didn’t know that there is a plot to turn frogs gay and convert our children into drag queens.

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    That is because people are morons and don’t know how cameras work. Even the military thinks things like low flying geese are some how aliens, when clearly their evidence is to the contrary. I am not saying that there aren’t aliens. They probably do exist, but the evidence we keep getting shown for it is laughable.

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    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!

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    Meanwhile the Netherlands chilling with the extraterrestrials.

    Maybe that’s where they got their terraforming abilities.

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    That all these sightings just happen to occur in the US reminds me of how I’d watch old Dr Who episodes and chuckle at how all the aliens always ended up in the same sand pit in England.