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[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hmm seems to correlate well with Air force test locations

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I disagree, clearly the aliens are afraid of the mothman and the Appalachian mountains.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Looks like they are afraid of the GOP

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Nah, they're heading up country for that good weed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if this map just has darker colors for (some of) the low population density areas. If there are only 5 people in a zone, and one is a kook who sees ufos, that's 20% of the population in that region who have spotted a ufo! The zone next to it with 5 people has a kook who maybe believes in werewolves, so they get a light square on this map.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it's not adjusted per capita. About as dumb as the map showing UFO sightings mainly in US because they used US statistics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It says that it's per capita in the image: "Reported UFO sightings per 100k residents".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Youre right I missread.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Now, do an overlay that shows military base locations as well as flight zones.

I can see a flight zone in Ohio that I have to avoid when droning and the counties around it are a bit darker.

Surely it's a coincidence, right? The aliens must just know where the zones are so they have plausible deniability!