The reality lies beyond us, and the figures clearly indicate its location.

Fresh information from the National UFO Reporting Center has exposed precisely which locations offer the highest chances of spotting an unidentified flying object in the skies.

The examination looked into 149,000 sighting records from the Reporting Center’s database as well as social media accounts to ascertain the number of experiences encountered per person across different states.

Leading the pack, California residents have documented an astonishing 36,286 reported UFO sightings since 1974.

This makes it officially America’s extraterrestrial hot spot, with one sighting for every 1,075 residents.

California’s crisp nighttime sky combined with its high population density has resulted in ideal circumstances for numerous UFO observations.

Actually, just last month, the distressing audio of a US Air Force pilot’s communication with air traffic control was released. The pilot described seeing ‘three orb-shaped lights’ quietly floating above Los Angeles.

The unidentified object approached within 10 feet of the pilot’s wing, achieving supersonic speed, as the U.S. Air Force aircraft was carrying out a covert operation overhead.
California
.

The pilot, who referred to himself as ‘Troy 21,’ informed the nearby air traffic control (ATC) officials in
Los Angeles
This might seem strange, but recently, an object about the size of a football passed under my wing.

On September 17, 2024, during the incident, air traffic control can be heard querying whether Troy 21 believed it might have been a drone, yet the astonished pilot was unable to respond.

Troy 21 responded that his sensor operator was searching for the UFO using the aircraft’s cameras, mentioning that it appeared as a ‘dark gray cylindrical object’ not larger than a soccer ball.

The pilot swiftly notified Air Traffic Control that they had seen the UFO once more approximately 60 miles away from where it initially approached Troy 21’s aircraft.

Further along in the recording, an additional air traffic controller from Los Angeles can be heard over the radio downplaying the event, stating that ‘a UFO was reportedly spotted here, but everything concerning that has been handled. You don’t need to concern yourself with it… it’s disappeared.’

Former
FBI
Agent Ben Hansen informed NewsNation that the enigmatic object likely had to travel at Mach 2, which is double the speed of sound, to move such a distance rapidly.

The state ranking second for the frequency of reported Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) was Washington.

The Pacific Northwest has consistently drawn individuals intrigued by the mysterious, with Washington documenting 7,125 UFO sightings.

That’s roughly one for each 1,093 inhabitants.

Between 1948 and 1952, when America’s manufacturing of nuclear arms initially escalated,
waves of UFO sightings
started appearing around Washington state’s Hanford nuclear production facility, along with Los Alamos in New Mexico and various locations involved in the Manhattan Project.

In the meantime, Florida secured the third position with over 11,000 documented interactions.

That’s approximately one sighting for every 1,144 people in Florida.

Just last December, a flight attendant working off the coastline of Florida succeeded in capturing a
enigmatic round entity soaring over the aircraft
She was working at an altitude of thousands of feet over the Bahamas.

On December 23, Cassandra Martin, who works as a flight attendant for the private airline Surjet, was aboard an empty plane with two pilots. While returning to Fort Lauderdale from Miami, air traffic control warned them about a ‘foreign object.’

The unsettling video displayed a round fuzzy patch of white light transitioning into green tones, encircled by a circular glow around the entity.

In the fourth place is Oregon, where there was one UFO sighting for every 1,156 residents.

Much like what happened recently in California, a small number of pilots have come forward with reports.
noticing strange glows zipping across the heavens
over
Oregon
in December.

An air ambulance pilot reported observing a luminous object moving swiftly towards his plane on the night of December 7. The object suddenly changed direction mid-air and flew back out over the Pacific Ocean.

‘Colored red — traveling at incredibly high speeds. I’m not sure how to convey just how quick it was moving,’ the pilot reported to the air-traffic controllers.

The following evening, a United Airlines captain likewise observed strange luminous phenomena over the Eugene region.

“We’ve identified three or four targets. They’re all varying in altitude—up and down. This situation seems quite chaotic,” the pilot informed the air traffic control personnel, who verified that there were no military operations occurring nearby.

The pilot of the air ambulance also observed an object moving in a ‘helical path’ that showed up on the plane’s collision prevention system.

‘You have permission to make necessary maneuvers—either left or right—to avoid.’
UFO
Out there,” replied an air-traffic controller, as per an audio recording of their conversation.

Short video snippets captured by pilots and crew revealed lights in the nighttime sky; however, the dim surroundings made it challenging to identify precise specifics.

In the meantime, New York completes the top five with one sighting for every 1,301 individuals.

In November, a
A mysterious spherical object was seen.
over
New York City
Hudson River mentioned in a news broadcast, fueling outrageous conspiracy theories.

A striking bright object was spotted darting into view of the city’s renowned skyline.

The footage, filmed from a helicopter, showed a
quickly moving sphere of illumination beginning in Hoboken
,
New Jersey
and circling over towards the World Trade Center where it disappeared.

Specialists have proposed that the ‘orb’ could have been either an optical anomaly caused by the helicopter glass in front of the camera or possibly an out-of-focus bird.

However, this sighting has caused some residents of New York City to wonder whether ‘
aliens
“Among Us’”—as it was just days later after the previous event.
Pentagon
report that highlighted a
a close call involving a passenger plane and an unidentified entity
alongside the city’s shoreline.

Harvard physicist, Avi Loeb,
wrote
that the enigmatic sphere was crafted by

‘


A gleaming point caused by the sunlight reflecting as the camera slowly adjusted its position in relation to the sun and the Earth.

Loeb went on to say that if the sphere were indeed a physical entity, it would be traveling at the speed of sound—not some remarkable velocity.

People trying to steer clear of alien sightings might want to stay in Louisiana, as its inhabitants have the lowest number of UFO encounters across the country – only one report for every 3,815 individuals.

Even more secure is North Dakota, which reported just 282 overall sightings – roughly 0.0004 per person – making it statistically the state with the lowest chance of having a close encounter of the third kind.

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