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Noviembre 04, 2005
UFO Sighting Locations in Google Earth
When I first heard about someone using Google Maps, and later Google Earth, to show UFO sighting locations it seemed a bit silly. But, after viewing the Google Earth file 
, which breaks up the sightings according to the year it was taken, the application took on a different perspective. Note, this data is only for the United States (where most UFOs appear of course).
After loading into GE, look at the Places window and view the contents of the "UFO Sightings" folder. You can turn on the placemarks for each year in the database from 1860 through 2005. What I find interesting is the density of reportings over the years. There's a huge increase in reports starting in 1995. It could be that once the Internet took off in 1995, it enabled more people to communicate their speculations. But, I wonder whether this says something about the sanity of our society over time?
At one point...
Years ago I worked at a planetarium, and we dedicated a show to explaining many common phenomena which are interpreted as UFOs (they were unidentified to the viewer of course). For example: weather balloons, helicopters, meteorites, satellites, etc. After a show people would come up and talk to us about their own UFO experiences. Apparently sharing this information results in even more reports. I wonder whether other countries around the world come even close to the number of reports in the United States?
The data in these maps is based on a database from the National UFO Reporting Center. The UFO Google maps mashup and Google Earth file were created by a company in Canada called Poly9. These maps were very well done technically by the way. Good job Poly9!
Enviado por FrankTaylor at Noviembre 4, 2005 09:37 AM
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Enviado por: KS at Octubre 8, 2006 03:14 AM
the best place I know for sighting UFO"s is in Sholow,Az. In 1996 my son and I were just east of Sholow,az, we were at 7000 ft, the sky was clear. We saw what we thought to be satalites cirleing the earth above us,in two rows, one going north and one going south, suddenly two bright objects appeared, one from the east and one from the west, we thought they would cross the line of bright objects, however,once they entered the line, they made 90degree turns, one went north and the other went south,joining the many other bright objects.
Enviado por: david at Diciembre 14, 2006 09:09 AM
I wonder why Az is such a hot spot for sightings? Any ideas?
Enviado por: Pedro at Abril 12, 2007 01:01 PM
These folks used google maps to show sightings in my area:
http://www.strangeusa.com/viewcity.asp?city=Blowing%20Rock&state=NC
I think it is very cool.
Enviado por: Lauren at Abril 14, 2007 09:54 PM
Is there life outside our own beautifull blue globe ?
Well, it would be pretty arrogant to think we are the only ones.
I find it quite amusing that if you look for UFO sightings on the internet, that 99% of those happen in the states.
It can mean a few things...
a) Any intelligent life that is capable of visiting our earth, just loves the USA.
or
b) Americans are superstitious ?
I vote on the latter one.
Enviado por: Maik at Mayo 2, 2007 08:06 PM
I just saw a bright light in the sky, looks brighter than a star. It appeared to be really close and once my husband and I pulled out our cameras to capture the image, both our cameras stopped working and said we needed new batteries. The light then began to grow brighter and then dim, only to disappear and then reappear again. Could this be a ufo? It remained still in the same area and didnt move at all, only when it would fade and come into view again.
Enviado por: olive at Mayo 12, 2007 12:54 AM
I found a for sure ufo, same as the triangle shaped one in Australia, its in the northern part of Germany. 53 deg.08'33.50"N 13deg01'46.48"E
If you can check it out and please get back to me. And theres thousands of string like entities all over. Above land and water, small and big ones, some with heads. It's trippy shit. Their everywhere.
Enviado por: Ozone at Junio 5, 2007 11:54 PM
"Note, this data is only for the United States (where most UFOs appear of course)."
You've been watching too many Hollywood movies. Ever heard of Mexico?
Enviado por: Duke at Febrero 6, 2008 01:48 AM
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"I wonder whether this says something about the sanity of our society over time?"
Actually, many sane people have seen UFO, and not just blurry nocturnal objects brought on by perceptual fatigue. I have read hundreds of credible comm/military pilot sightings which to me suggest that sanity and UFO sightings can coincide. I never doubted my sanity when a large, apparently metallic object flew overhead at low altitude in broad daylight. Btw, this object had very distinctive heat marks along the leading edge of an otherwise clean, metallic surface--such as you could expect for an object that re-entered from high orbit. However, this object was flying at a flat trajectory at low altitude. I won't begin to speculate what this object was, but I no longer doubt these things do happen. It should be an opportunity for science to apply some real rigor to this phenomena, versus attribute all cases to inversion layers, swamp gas, weather balloons, etc.