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Re:Reported UFO-Sightings 1906-2014 (interactive map) by mistercow on Sunday December 31, 2023 @04:25PM (#38827650)
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1138/
Re:Reported UFO-Sightings 1906-2014 (interactive map) by mmh0000 on Sunday December 31, 2023 @10:53PM (#38829630)
More relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1235/
Re:Reported UFO-Sightings 1906-2014 (interactive map) by Hogarth01 on Sunday December 31, 2023 @04:41PM (#38827751)
Something is off with the data.

Chino, CA

Report 4 of 11 "Orange and red sphere over Northern Virginia [...]"

Report 7 of 11 "This was a red light which was moving quite fast over Aberdeen, Scotland. [...]"

Report 8 of 11 "Orange Sphere over Northwest Florida [...]"

It is not an isolated problem for Chino, CA. Most(?) locations that have more than one report will include a report for an event that is nowhere near the selected location.

Re:Reported UFO-Sightings 1906-2014 (interactive map) by ksaj on Sunday December 31, 2023 @07:16PM (#38828623)
The text box seemingly has nothing to do with anything you've clicked on. I was zoomed in to Toronto, looking at the few points there, and the text in the too-small scrolling box was about Norfolk Virginia. That's pretty strange.
Re:Reported UFO-Sightings 1906-2014 (interactive map) by abracadaniel on Sunday December 31, 2023 @11:26PM (#38829728)
That could be. The first 2 I clicked on referenced landmarks that were on other ends of the globe.
Re:Reported UFO-Sightings 1906-2014 (interactive map) by xeromal on Monday January 01, 2024 @01:05AM (#38830006)
I'm so tired of people talking about UFOs lol. My mom is obsessed with aliens. Wake me up when some real shit I can see is available
Re:Reported UFO-Sightings 1906-2014 (interactive map) by nyokodo on Monday January 01, 2024 @01:36AM (#38830090)
This would be a bit of fun if the locations of the reports were correctly attributed. I was reading a few of them anyway, and most of them sounded like reports of human aircraft at night while the juicier ones were vague memories from many years ago, highly likely to be embellished by the frailty of human memory let alone anything else.