• Spaceape@lemmy.nrsk.noOP
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    1 year ago

    This shows a world map with archived sightings. There’s a lot of flaws to it, areas with no activity doesn’t mean no sightings - Just no data. Sighting density seems to align with population density and so on.

    But still very interesting to browse what is available.

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      1 year ago

      This is really cool! I assume that this heat map primarily reflects English-language reporting. If that’s the case, I wonder if there are similar reporting tools and heat maps for other languages that could be superimposed on this one. It would be interesting to compare and contrast the results.

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        1 year ago

        I’m new to NUFORC so I haven’t checked out the sources of their data, but my first guess is the same as yours - Self-reporting for those who speak English. Considering most people probably doesn’t even know about the reporting tools I suspect the number of unreported sightings is astronomical, pun intended.

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    1 year ago

    why would they be mostly in the us? they wouldn’t have any way to know about borders and countries…

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      It appears to be a U.S. based reporting organization. I would think it would be more shocking if the heat map wasn’t primarily showing reports from the U.S. or other English speaking counties.