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[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 113 points 2 years ago (2 children)

THEY'RE GONNA TERK ER JERBS!

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

THE ALIENS ARE COMING RIGHT FOR US!

BLAM

[–] suction@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They’re going right for the jugular!

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[–] z3n0x@feddit.de 12 points 2 years ago

Ogoodbodogooooo!

[–] Alto@kbin.social 104 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 61 points 2 years ago (2 children)

^ this is true.

This post is insanely misleading.

[–] darvocet 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

^ made the right call here

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[–] account_2@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 2 years 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.

[–] Here_in_Malaysia@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years 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 13 points 2 years 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 86 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

This is just a heatmap of English speakers.

[–] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (3 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 8 points 2 years 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.

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[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 9 points 2 years 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 49 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Or maybe we're just really bored and stupid.

[–] lasagna@programming.dev 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] elscallr@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] mochi@lemdit.com 33 points 2 years ago

Because that's where the freak show is.

[–] dunestorm@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago (2 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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[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years 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!"

[–] AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 15 points 2 years 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 22 points 2 years 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.

[–] Tetra@kbin.social 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The USA is very interested in aliens*

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[–] mwguy 21 points 2 years ago

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

[–] conrad82@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years 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 2 years ago (9 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 2 years ago

Meanwhile the Netherlands chilling with the extraterrestrials.

Maybe that's where they got their terraforming abilities.

[–] z3n0x@feddit.de 19 points 2 years 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 21 points 2 years ago

Less people live in that line

[–] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago (1 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

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[–] cc8 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Americans trying to explain why the map looks like this Image

[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] SMT42@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do you think the US has more people than all of Asia or something?

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[–] prettydarknwild@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

or the aliens are just us experimental stealth planes

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years 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 15 points 2 years ago

Apparently, aliens are very interested in anglophone countries

[–] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

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

[–] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 10 points 2 years ago
[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Aliens are allergic to Mexican food, apparently.

[–] aquinteros@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

they are trying to recreate the movies

[–] Zalzabar@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sad to see so many dots around newfoundland but I'm also not that surprised lol

[–] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Sad to see so many dots around newfoundland but I’m also not that surprised lol

Not a lot of people know this, but until they invent interstellar jet engines the aliens have to stop in Gander to refuel before going on to the US.

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