UFO Sightings Jump Significantly During Pandemic
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“With the COVID thing, more people are looking up,” said Chris DePerno, a retired police detective. And what they’re seeing more often are UFOs.
Reported sightings rose nationally last year to more than 7,200, up 1,000 from 2019. In New York state, where DePerno works with the Mutual UFO Network, reports almost doubled to 300, figures from the National UFO Reporting Center show.
One reason could be that many people have moved from New York City, for example, to less urban areas that don’t have much light pollution, the New York Times reports. “They come up toward the Hudson Valley, it’s beautiful up there, you get clear skies,” DePerno said, “and then all of a sudden you see this thing zipping through the sky that stopped on a dime, goes straight up, takes off again, stops, comes back—we’re talking incredible speeds.”
Another reason is that the federal government has committed to compiling and releasing reports about UFO sightings to the public. That has encouraged people like Peter Davenport, director of NUFORC. Until now, he said, the message from the government seemed to be “that people like me are just crazy—and we’re not.”
Everyone involved says the increase in sightings doesn’t indicate a fleet of UFOs hovering above us. NUFORC says that most sightings turn out to be satellites, planes, birds or drones. The upcoming report might change that. “There are instances where we don’t have good explanations for some of the things that we’ve seen,” John Ratcliffe, former director of National Intelligence, said last month on Fox News.
Those things include movements by a craft that are hard to replicate or something moving at speeds that break the sound barrier without causing a sonic boom, per USA Today. (Read more UFO stories.)
Article originally published at Newser and authored by Bob Cronin.
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I think “beings from another world” is statistically the least likely even if it’s the most fun to believe. The likelihood of a creature willing and able to build faster than light travel as well as mysterious aircraft seems so close to zero I can’t accept the possibility. Our own history is the result of a billion years or more of chaos and the slightest difference becomes critical in a tiny fraction of the time. Other than the argument from incredulity and the argument from ignorance nothing suggests that advanced, air breathing, intelligent technological civilization with the habit of flitting around military bases with no apparent purpose, exist anywhere. Add to that FTL travel it’s it’s not worth talking about.
Pond scum? sure, I believe. Anything even remotely like us takes a lot of evidence.
Why would other beings want to come here at all?
I often ask that question, until I remember from all my Sci-Fi reading and movie watching. They want to kill us all and take our natural resources before moving on.
I think a lot of what is currently being reported, whatever it may, or may not be, are “things” that have long been “there” just not noticed in the heretofore dirty and traffic filled skies. Where I live, where it is relatively dark, and quiet, and where we regularly gaze skyward either in search of birds or in awe of the night sky, it has been noticeably clearer and quieter skies and noticeably minimal air traffic for the last year. The fact is that the sound or sight of a passing aircraft is now quite a novelty that attracts attention to what was previously quite mundane. While I have personally not noted anything unworldly lately, that doesn’t mean it is not there. And quite frankly, there is not much to see here that one would think “others” might find interesting – you’ve seen 1 cornfield/woodlot/cow you’ve seen them all.
And yes, count me in to the firm believers group. I did say I’d not seen anything LATELY.
Mike, I have decided to accept the belief that we are not the only life in the universe. Given the amount of evidence of sightings and the issues surrounding the ancient alien theorists, it seems more likely that UFOs exist and are driven by beings from another world.
I’m a firm believer in life elsewhere so I believe in UFO’s although the fact that no one has really gotten a good picture, in this age of iPhones, is disturbing, and makes me question the phenomenon.