It occurred to me while reading about UFO whistleblower news. Why do the majority of UFO things occur in the United States rather than Russia, China, and other countries?
Edit: Thank you all for answers, they’re really helpful.
- Area 51 - a real USAF research facility where cutting edge aircraft were tested in the mid 20th century. People in the area truly did see Unidentified Flying Objects, in the sense that they saw aircraft the likes of which they had until then believed were impossible.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Lazar who single-handedly reinvigorated the UFO conspiracy theories long after Area 51 had concluded most of its Cold War era secret tests.
We don’t have fae shit in the US
Because we real dum.
If you pull back all the layers of this onion you will most likely find out its just humans manipulating a situation to fund secret projects and funnel money into private corporations. It happens elsewhere as well but mostly under other different veils.
Dont forget, a distraction from all of our country’s and planets verry real problems!
The US has Hollywood and the rest of the world watches our movies significantly more than we watch theirs. The country who makes the alien movie gets to decide where the aliens are going to make contact. We also have some of the loudest conspiracy theorists but that might just be a bias because I’m from here so obviously they’re who I’d hear.
The “flying saucer” phenomenon originated among American and British pilots, from the “foo fighters” of WWII to Kenneth Arnold’s widely publicized sightings. It then spread in the largely-American science-fiction scene and Hollywood-centric mass media.
Blame the science fiction magazines from the 50’s and 60’s. It really was a good time for scifi: Isaac Asimov, Arthur C Clarke, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K Dick, Robert A Heinlein, Frank Herbert.
Sure — also L. Ron Hubbard, John W. Campbell, and many others who got involved personally in weird shit & pseudoscience of one sort or another.
Aliens are big in American pop culture, and alien conspiracies even moreso, so it’s going to be a pretty big community of people. It’s also likely that if someone suffers from psychosis, they might go down the alien route in their delusion because it’s familiar to them through popular culture.
Usa’s society is very susceptible to conspiracy theories in general, and the UFO story is one. The question, whether there are actually aliens or not, steps back behind the conspiracy accusation against government/secret services/etc.
This is an interesting point. I know the military pushed the narrative back in the 50s about UFOs to hide their military tech and it snowballed (successfully?) from there.
Does the Chinese populace have an attraction toward conspiracy theories or UFOs?
Does the Chinese populace have an attraction toward conspiracy theories or UFOs?
No, not at all.
A list of countries ranked by gullibility would solve this riddle.
You know why. It requires stupid people.
Because it’s propaganda created by the US government. You should be asking yourself why is the government working so hard to distract you? What are they trying to hide? It’s not aliens I can promise you that much.
Also ask yourself this. If there is so much discussion and attention to aliens then why is it there is always zero evidence? Absolutely no evidence other then some strangers word.
It would exist without the gov. The gov would likely love to not have to deal with idiots constantly badgering it to reveal “secrets”.
UFOlogy is huge in Brazil. They have a lot of famous “incidents”, google Varginha alien and you’ll see what I mean.
I’m not a believer at all, I just happen to know about it cause I lived there for a while and one of my coworkers was a UFO nut.
Possibly because the US defense industry dwarfs the rest of the world and is constantly testing new technology that can be confused for UFOs. Russia and China, while also having large defense industries, are nowhere near what the US spends.
Also tagging onto this if there is a possibility of UFOs our defense radar systems are the only ones that would pick them up besides China’s.
I’d hesitate to say that beings capable of intergalactic travel couldn’t easily cloak/hide themselves from our primitive technology. An ant can’t, with all its sensory capabilities, tell that it’s staring at a car even if its standing right in front of it.
We call it the F-16 Flying Saucer. Spins 360° to no-scope the target. Barf bags cost extra.
Generally others think aliens are probably already between us since we are not that special for being top specie on universe history. Considerig time is infinite, odds for that would be < 0.000…1
Therefore, aliens are not a big deal
Yeah, aliens or Earth, like who cares? /s
Interestingly, there’s a strong argument that we are one of the first, at least locally.
Firstly, an infinite amount of time hasn’t passed. Time actually started at the big bang (Asking what was before is akin to asking what is north of the north pole).
The big bang also didn’t create any heavy elements, these required stars to produce. The first generation of stars could not have supported life. Later generations of star each have more heavy elements available. These allow for the formation of rocky planets. Our sun is in the earlier phase of this.
This leaves 2 questions. How long for life to evolve (all the way to technological intelligence)? And how easy is interstellar travel?
Life on earth seemed to pop up almost as soon as it could. That could be normal, or it could be us winning the lottery on the first play. As for evolution speed, we have no clue for comparison.
The 2nd is the critical one. As it stands, interstellar travel seems limited to the speed of light. This, and the cast energy requirements make interstellar travel and colonisation difficult. If a local species developed this ability, it is quite likely they reached us before now, and colonisated earth. The fact we can trace our evolution shows this likely didn’t happen. The chances of such a species turning up in the window of time we are in, is almost zero. The fact we exist, without alien overseers is evidence we have won the race, at least locally.
Aliens amongst us? That is preposterous! Who told you this nonsens, give me there names. Seriously, they need to be dealt with.
My theory… Lead pipes and general high level of heavy metals in the environment, especially in the areas many of these sightings happen in…
Or idk aliens maybe…
