Many UFO sightings are "lights in the sky".
Even people researching the subject for years now tend to
discount such reports because they are supposedly so likely
to be satellites, stars or planets.

Indeed, in the NUFORC database I favor because of its transparency
policies, many and I mean many sightings are notated
"probably STARLINK satellite train" or similar. :)

But I've just updated some plots related to the local and GMT time
of all NUFORC sightings across the US and Canada.

The plots show many sightings happen around the same time GMT.
And the longitude by GMT time of sighting tend to support the idea
a big chunk of objects seen are involved in a net drift from
east to west acorss N America on a daily basis.

The slope of the relevant line gives an estimate of the speed
of this rough drift speed.

As some of the current and former Def Dept people say --
we hope to G*d it isn't the Russians or Chinese.

Keep your sense of humor for forget all the dumb Appeal to Ignorance fallacies.

PLOTS:

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The frequency of sightings by local and GMT times. There is a
good peak around 3-4am GMT. This peak has moved with the
addition of the Canadian part of the NUFORC sightings.
Earlier, the peak was seen around 2-3am GMT. Given this peak
it might be guessed some part of the world with a local time
of midday at 3-4am GMT may be related to an operational origin
of some objects for reasons outlined previously.

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These plots show the distribution of sighting time versus
longitude. In local time the best-fit line slopes in one
direction. But corrected to GMT we see a tighter fit to the
regr line and a slope to the other side indicating sightings
in the W of Canada and the US are generally made later than in
the E. The slope of this line indicates an approximate "drift
speed" of objects east-to-west. A substantial drift speed.

Prev posted articles (but not short comments) are archived at
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Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
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