Maine Ranks Surprisingly High When It Comes To UFO Sightings!
When your home state makes the "Top 5" of any nationwide list, you hope it's for a good reason.
For instance, I would not be surprised if Maine ranked high in the number of people who have had an interaction with a moose, or for having a bunch of lighthouses.
It wouldn't be far-fetched to find Maine at the top of a "Highest Number Of Pine Trees Per Square Foot" list.
This was one list, however, that I didn't expect.
Did you know (and if you didn't know, now you do) that Maine is tied with New Hampshire for 5th place in 'States With The Highest Number Of UFO Sightings In The Nation?'
I would have thought that New Mexico would have beat us, with its association with Roswell and all. But they're behind us on this list that Casino Alpha put together.
What blows my mind, even more than the fact that Maine is ranked #5, is that Vermont is ranked #1!
"...analyzed data from the National UFO Reporting Center by looking at all reports of sightings in each state. They weighed the number of reports of alien visitations relative to the state’s population to create a fair ranking of most to least visits per 100,000 residents. UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object, often associated with what believers claim to be the aircraft aliens use to visit Earth."
So Vermont, Washington, Montana, Alaska, and then Maine & New Hampshire is how that list works.
With that in mind, it does look like the number of UFOs being reported in Maine has been on the decline since 2020. Where during the pandemic, as folks ventured out into Nature a little more regularly, the number of sightings that year was up around 70. This year, the National UFO Reporting Center has that number at not quite 25 yet, and it's already October.
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Perhaps folks just aren't noticing them like they used to? Maybe they're more skeptical? Or there's always the chance that they're seeing things, but not reporting things.
Either way, Maine has more unusual activity when it comes to the night sky than most of the other states in the nation. And that's kind of neat.
But the sky's not the limit when it comes to bizarre things Maine is known for.
Check this out!
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