• paintbucketholder@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    and you’ll note the heat map correlates with wealth (and thus smartphone access).

    It doesn’t, or else there would be a lot more sightings all over Europe, South Korea and Japan, Australia and New Zealand, Israel, Saudi Arabia and various emirates, and a good junk of China.

    Also, smartphones didn’t exist for the first 101 years of the reporting time span.

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      1 year ago

      It most definitely still correlates with wealth, regardless of that factors

      Regardless, simple google searches of “UAP sightings South America/Asia/India/ etc” will yield many results - this is not a US phenomnon

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        However it is primarily a cultural phenomenon, it’s simply spread to the rest of the world as part of the US cultural zeitgeist and near-hegemony.