New map of UFO hotspots reveals best US states for alien spotting
The truth is out there, and the numbers show exactly where.
The truth is out there, and the numbers show exactly where.
New data from the National UFO Reporting Center has revealed exactly where youre most likely to see a UFO in the sky.
The analysis examined 149,000 sighting entries from the Reporting Centers database, along with social media reports to determine how many encounters are experienced per capita in each state.
Coming in first, Californians have recorded a staggering 36,286 reported UFO sightings since 1974.
This makes it officially Americas alien hotspot with one sighting for every 1,075 residents.
Californias clear night skies and dense population have created perfect conditions for UFO sightings.
In fact, just last month, the harrowing call a US Air Force pilot made to air traffic control was released after they described three orange-like lights hovering silently above Los Angeles.
The unknown craft came as close as 10 feet of the pilots wing, reaching supersonic speeds, as the US Air Force craft was conducting a secret mission over California.
New data from the National UFO Reporting Center has revealed exactly where these eerie sightings are most common
The pilot, who identified as Troy 21, told local air traffic control (ATC) in Los Angeles: This is going to sound weird, but I just had something pass underneath my wing, maybe a football-sized object right underneath my wing.
During the September 17, 2024, incident, ATC can be heard asking Troy 21 if he thought it was a drone, but the stunned pilot couldnt give an answer.
Troy 21 replied that his sensor operator was looking for the UFO on the planes cameras, adding that it was a dark gray cylindrical object no bigger than a football.
The pilot quickly informed ATC that they had spotted the UFO again about 60 miles from where it first buzzed Troy 21s plane.
Later in the recording, another air traffic controller in Los Angeles could be heard on the radio dismissing the incident, saying that there was UFO reported here, but thats all taken care of now. So you dont have to worry about it... its gone.
Former FBI agent Ben Hansen told NewsNation the mysterious object must have be traveling at Mach 2, or twice the speed of sound, to get so far away so fast.
The state to come in second in terms of the appearance Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) was Washington.
The Pacific Northwest has long attracted those seeking the unexplained, with Washington recording 7,125 UFO sightings.
The strange object then moved off at high speed and was seen minutes later 60 miles away from the aircraft
Thats approximately one for every 1,093 residents.
From 1948 to 1952, as Americas production of atomic weapons first ramped up, waves of UFO sightings began cropping up over Washington states Hanford nuclear production complex, as well as Los Alamos, New Mexico, and other sites for the Manhattan Project.
Meanwhile, Florida was ranked third with more than 11,000 reported encounters.
Thats roughly one sighting for every 1,144 Floridians.
As recently as this past December, a flight attendant flying off the coast of the Sunshine State managed to capture a mysterious spherical object flying above the plane she was working on, thousands of feet above the Bahamas.
Cassandra Martin, a flight attendant for private air service Surjet, was flying with two pilots in an empty jet on December 23 when Miami air traffic control alerted them to a foreign object as they were flying back to Fort Lauderdale.
The eerie footage showed a rounded blur of white light that faded into a green color, with a circular halo surrounding the object.
Coming in fourth is Oregon, which had one UFO sighting per 1,156 residents.
Cassandra Martin, a flight attendant for private air service Surjet, was flying with two pilots in an empty jet on December 23 when air traffic control alerted them to a foreign object
It had capabilities just to zigzag and change color, so that was a little daunting, to the say the least, but you know, its also something fascinating that I was able to see and capture with my phone, Martin said
Similar to the recent incident in California, a handful of pilots reported spotting mysterious lights darting through the skies over Oregon in December.
One of the reports came from an air ambulance pilot, who described seeing a bright light streaking toward his aircraft before abruptly reversing course and heading back toward the Pacific Ocean on the evening of December 7.
Red in color - moving at extreme speeds. I dont even know how to describe how fast it was moving, the pilot told air-traffic controllers.
On the next night, a United Airlines pilot also noted unusual lights in the Eugene area.
Were seeing three or four targets. Theyre all altitudes. Up and down. Its pretty crazy, the pilot reported to air-traffic controllers, who confirmed there was no military activity in the area.
The air ambulance pilot additionally noted one light moving in a corkscrew pattern, which appeared on the aircrafts collision avoidance system.
You are cleared to maneuver as necessary - left or right to avoid the UFO out there, an air-traffic controller responded, according to an audio clip of the exchange
Short video clips taken by pilots and crew showed lights in the night sky, but the dark conditions made it difficult to discern specific details.
At least four commercial pilots reported spotting mysterious lights darting through the skies over Oregon
Meanwhile, New York rounds out the top five with one sighting per 1,301 people.
In November, a mysterious orb-like object was spotted over New York Citys Hudson River in a news broadcast, sparking wild conspiracies.
An apparent bright object was seen zooming into the shot of the citys famous skyline.
The video, shot by a helicopter, captured a fast-moving ball of light starting from Hoboken, New Jersey and swooping around toward the World Trade Center where it vanished.
Experts have suggested the orb was either an optical artifact from the helicopter glass in front of the camera or an out-of-focus bird.
But the sighting has led some New Yorkers to question if aliens are among us - as it came less than a week after a Pentagon report that highlighted a a near-miss between a commercial airliner and a mysterious object off the coast of the city.
Harvard physicist, Avi Loeb, wrote that the mysterious orb was created by a bright spot from reflection of sunlight as the camera gradually changed its orientation relative to the sun and the ground.
Loeb continued to explain that if the orb was a real object, it would have been moving at the speed of sound, not anything extraordinary.
A segment during Good Day New York featured a mysterious orb that appeared to zoom over the Hudson River
Those hoping to avoid extraterrestrial encounters should consider staying in Louisiana, where residents experience the fewest UFO encounters nationwide - just one sighting for every 3,815 people.
Even safer is North Dakota, which recorded only 282 total sightings - approximately 0.0004 per capita - making it statistically the state where you are least likely to have an encounter of the third kind.