In my last hub related to UFOs I tried to zero in on the best areas for UFO hunters to set their sights on. Unfortunately, the NUFORC data wasn't complete at that time. Things stand better this time around since NUFORC posted on 6/8/12. The above map charts out the best locations to witness UFOs, based on an average of the NUFORC and MUFON sighting reports (after removing duplicate entries and ones that appear to be either misidentifications, fantasies, or hoaxes) for an 85 day period (12 weeks) from 3/12/12 to 6/4/12.



Generally, sightings have been on a downward slope for the last 5 months (decreasing by 18% when comparing the last 6 months of last year to the first 5 months of this year), but that is not unusual since the last half of any given year almost always has more sightings than the first half. One promising sign is that things have been picking up during the last 30 days; not universally or for all states but in certain highly populated and key states such as California and Missouri. Currently Arizona and Texas are ahead of those last two states (based on sightings per population density), but these last two states have stayed at a constant level. If California and Missouri continue to have sightings increase in frequency, then there would be a strong possibility of them overtaking the other two states. Two states that appear to be slowing down in activity, after showing some signs of things picking up a month or two ago, are Pennsylvania and Florida.



Looking at just the MUFON data from the middle of April to early June, you can see a spike in the last 16 day period for the data given below (split into groups by distance of UFO to observer):





Date........501ft-1mile..101-500ft..21-100ft..0-20ft



4/17-5/2..........46.............18...............6............5



5/3-5/17..........47.............15...............3............4



5/18-6/2..........51.............27.............12............8







Another factor to consider in the statistics is the fact that 38% of the top 13 states listed in the spreadsheet below are states with a very low population density. Such a situation can artificially inflate the importance of a state, such as Alaska and Montana (in the 1st and 2nd positions). Also, many of these same states and those of moderately low population density, such as Nevada and Utah for the later, and (again) Montana for the former, have report numbers that differ greatly between those given by NUFORC and those given by MUFON (one of the reasons why I decided to average their numbers). What this means is, that for these states with extremely different reporting numbers, their ranking is more uncertain than with states who's figures agree closely between the two sources.