Why are UFO sightings increasing amid the COVID-19 pandemic?
Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Getty Images Last Sunday, around 2:30 in the afternoon, I got a push alert on my phone that a “possible UFO” had been seen in Long Beach, California. Unfortunately, it was probably just a fly.
Meanwhile, reported UFO sightings are on the rise in Canada, Belgium, and in the United States. Coincidentally — or maybe not — these are places that have also enforced stay-at-home orders over the same time frame. Chris Rutkowski, a UFOlogy researcher in Canada, told CTV News, “We’re looking at increases of about 50 percent from this time last year, so for some reason, people are reporting more UFOs during lockdown.
Pope, for the record, expected the opposite. “My initial view was that lockdowns would lead to fewer sightings, as people were cooped up indoors, and thus, less likely to notice anything unusual in the sky,” he says. “Also, given that many sightings turn out to be misidentifications of aircraft and aircraft lights, the downturn in flying activity should have resulted in fewer sightings.
Other features of lockdown might be considered conducive to UFO sightings as well. For one, spending so much time at home might give more of us reason to familiarize ourselves with patterns in our own patches of sky. Statistical work by Cheryl Costa, a former military technician and aerospace analyst, and her wife, Linda, has shown that people who report UFO sightings are most often smokers and/or people with dogs.
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