NUFORC
OrgNUFORC
OrgUFO sighting report database maintained since 1974
UFO sighting report database maintained since 1974
This post is a response to the earlier post about states with the most UFO sightings that was essentially just a popular map. The first map is from this Nature article The second map is is from here and is the lowest quality of the maps presented. But still better than 5 entire states colored red. The final image is from this 2023 analysis from the RAND Corporation. Both the first and last maps are constructed using sighting data from NUFORC.

I analyzed NUFORC data on the three Tinley Park events and discovered two things I didn't expect: Witness descriptions were remarkably consistent across hundreds of independent reports. Also people reported the second event 22x faster than the first. The community had learned where to report, which supports that this was not a hoax. The story is here if you want to check it out.

The study was conducted by Antoni Wędzikowski, a Warsaw-based lawyer and independent researcher who analyzed 80,000 UFO reports from the nonprofit National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) and compared them with bathymetric data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Using publicly available UFO sighting data and detailed ocean depth maps, the report identified correlations between reported sightings and deep underwater terrain features. The analysis also uncovered a striking...

