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.

  • Maharashtra@lemmy.worldEnglish
    109·
    1 year ago

    Consider these possibilities:

    • USA is considerably new country and built with no distinctive, coherent ancient history and mythology. As such, its people often grab every opportunity to produce a mythology they can consider their own. It makes them perceive as unnatural/supernatural things we, citizens of old world rationalize, or brush off as of little value.
    • USA is an experiment by whatever the “aliens” are, so it’s natural for them to supervise it with more interest than the rest of the world.
    • There are no aliens, it’s just USA itself testing new technologies of theirs.
    • Other superpowers are very secretive by default and they simply hush-hush every sighting they can.
      • Thavron@lemmy.caEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        An small criticism about your third point is the fact that the world isn’t the USA and Europe. There are many areas in the world with vast open areas. I do agree that in combination with the other factors it makes sense.