In 2018 , a meek 3395 hoi polloi in the U.S. and Canada submitted their story of UFO sighting to the National UFO Reporting Center . In 2019 , that telephone number jump to 5971 .
Apparently , extraterrestrial are particularly tender of flee their aircrafts over California , Florida , and Washington;according toABC News , they were the three most popular states forUFO sightingsin 2019 , with 485 , 385 , and 222 reports , respectively . Nevada , home of the infamousArea 51,totaledonly about 70 for the year .
Peter Davenport , managing director of the Washington - based organization , distinguish ABC News that he did n’t have any insight as to why the issue had jumped closely 76 percent in just one year .
" One of the mystery of ufology is there is a fluctuation in the number of reports over the years , " he say . " Some years it ’s been low-pitched , but it ’s gotten higher recently . "
American Astronomical Society spokesman Rick Fienberg , on the other hand , offered a few idea to ABC News : Not only were Jupiter and Venus extra - visible last year , but SpaceX sent a sum of 180 new satellites into space . Since the National UFO Reporting Center simply catalogs report — it does n’t enquire them — it ’s likely that many are actually planets , satellites , or other easy interpretable phenomena . As Fienberg pointed out , theuin UFO stands forunidentified , notunidentifiable .
" If you ’re not keeping up with the news show and not familiar with the horizon , you might erroneously see an nameless flying object . It may be unidentified to you , but know to others , " Fienberg allege .
We ’re not rule out the possibleness that extraterrestrial being are getting more regardless about conceal themselves and their vehicles as time goes on — they’ve supposedly been slipping up as far back as 1400 BCE . get out about 12 notorious UFO sightings from historyhere .
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