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[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 122 points 1 year ago (2 children)

THEY'RE GONNA TERK ER JERBS!

[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

THE ALIENS ARE COMING RIGHT FOR US!

BLAM

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[–] z3n0x@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago

Ogoodbodogooooo!

[–] Alto@kbin.social 114 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

IIRC this was a study (survey?) done by a American company.

There are tons of UFO sighting in plenty of non-NA or EU countries such as Brazil and South Africa

[–] hungry_freaks_daddy@lemm.ee 62 points 1 year ago (2 children)

^ this is true.

This post is insanely misleading.

[–] account_2@lemmynsfw.com 15 points 1 year ago

Like every shit post about aliens lately. Shit got old like immediately. Wake me up when we have actual evidence. Not just abductive reasoning.

[–] darvocet@infosec.pub 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

^ made the right call here

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[–] Here_in_Malaysia@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd like to add that for many countries like mine, a UFO sighting wouldn't even register as "unidentified" or having an outer space origin. The locals would attribute it to something religious instead.

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Berrrrr. VWOOP! widdle widdle, shooom. Pew, pew, pew. Buh luh luh luh luh luh. So sayeth the lord. Amen.

And now we paint ourselves green and dance in his shiny circular beamy holy goodness.

You ain’t gotta give, but I’m taking donations. If your neighbor don’t drop a dollarydoo in the plate, don’t judge him too harshly.

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[–] Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.world 91 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This is just a heatmap of English speakers.

[–] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you think the most English speakers live in the US and UK I've got some very surprising news for you

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Most native speakers live in the U.S. and the UK based on population numbers. We're talking over 400 million native speakers.

But as far non-native speakers, Google tells me that's India. But most English speakers in India don't speak it as their first language. They learned it in school, they didn't grow up speaking it at home.

[–] Dxthegod@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a Canadian, I must say:

Bonjour

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[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's because the source of the data is an English website which collected only English reports.

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[–] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or maybe we're just really bored and stupid.

[–] lasagna@programming.dev 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I suspect chronic boredom is widespread but almost no one realises it.

[–] elscallr@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of our chief industries is entertainment. Everyone knows it.

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[–] dunestorm@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is my biggest problem with believing anything alien related; how come all of the video evidence is taken on a phone camera from 2001, and the fact basically all sightings happen in the US?

The people making this shit up have to try harder than that!

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[–] mochi@lemdit.com 32 points 1 year ago

Because that's where the freak show is.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

I think its a mix of idiots everywhere, and the government secretly testing prototype aircraft. The idiots see the prototype aircraft, don't recognize it, and immediately go "eyljuhns!"

[–] mwguy@infosec.pub 27 points 1 year ago

Or more accurately, total classified air flights. There's a reason so many reports happen near US military facilities.

[–] AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This looks more like a map of any English speaking news source I would see online. I mean I see us politics and us topics on lemmy and my local newspaper all the time, but hardly ever hear anything from far away places like Ghana, Romania, south America, middle east or south east asia unless in specifically look for it on some lesser known sites.

[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

The official language of Ghana is English. They have plenty of news online, you just don't know about it.

It's not English that aliens are attracted to, we are imagining them. UFOs appeared when humans gained the ability to fly. Their ships got faster and more maneuverable as ours did. We are literally just seeing illusions, many of which we create.

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[–] Chadarius@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

That is because people are morons and don't know how cameras work. Even the military thinks things like low flying geese are some how aliens, when clearly their evidence is to the contrary. I am not saying that there aren't aliens. They probably do exist, but the evidence we keep getting shown for it is laughable.

[–] cc8@infosec.pub 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Americans trying to explain why the map looks like this Image

[–] Tetra@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The USA is very interested in aliens*

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[–] conrad82@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

When the first dinosaur bone was discovered, noone had heard about it before and people believed that bones they found before were from some animals

After people knew about dinosaurs they started finding them other places in the world at a rapid pace. Many people thought it was all a hoax

So you know, unless you know about them you don't know what to report. And americans think most about aliens I guess.

That being said, probably there aren't secret aliens around. probably 🫣

[–] TheActualDevil@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (10 children)

So... what were they mistaking the aliens for?

I mean, the actual verified "alien craft" in America is actually more of a "not sure what that is" grainy footage in an age where Donald Trump tweeted out classified satellite images that showed the cameras we use are actually far more advanced and show far more detail than any we knew existed. And that technology was over a decade old at the time!

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[–] oshaboy@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile the Netherlands chilling with the extraterrestrials.

Maybe that's where they got their terraforming abilities.

[–] prettydarknwild@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

or the aliens are just us experimental stealth planes

[–] z3n0x@feddit.de 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And what's that weird dividing line in the middle? Do they just stop and go: "nope, gotta focus on the East Coast, sorry bruh"?

[–] BB69@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Less people live in that line

[–] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh, you don't know about the line? Believe it or not, the line is actually real:

"Why 80% of Americans Live East of This Line"

https://youtu.be/wwJABxjcvUc

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

For the lazy: it’s cause there is less water after than line.

[–] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Which is why even the trees obey the line. Thanks, Rocky Mountain rain shadow!

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[–] TSUTiger@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. "Mankind." That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom... Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution... but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night!" We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

He had his flaws, but I still think of him as our greatest president.

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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

That all these sightings just happen to occur in the US reminds me of how I'd watch old Dr Who episodes and chuckle at how all the aliens always ended up in the same sand pit in England.

[–] Redex68@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Apparently, aliens are very interested in anglophone countries

[–] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Aliens only understand English speaking countries with just a dash of French mixed in

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aliens are allergic to Mexican food, apparently.

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