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
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    2 years 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.
  • redcalcium@lemmy.instituteEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Where I live, people believe supernatural stuff more than UFO stuff. So when they see something weird, the first thing in their mind would be ghosts instead of aliens.