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US Tier 1 UFO Sightings: Colors throughout the decades
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Jul 17, 2026, 9:07 PM
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Data from National UFO Reporting Center's Tier 1 UFO sightings data. Gray, aluminum, metallic and chrome were combined into silver. The organization describes Tier 1 sightings as “The most dramatic sightings - strange structured craft or highly anomalous phenomena seen at close distance.” Looking at color proportions by decade, UFO reports became noticeably more colorful over time, though earlier decades have smaller sample sizes. The biggest shift seems to be the decrease of gray and the inc...
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