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Statistician Sam Monfort has collated the sightings of UFOs in the 20th century from records kept by the National UFO Reporting Center on his blog, Visualize This (http://tinyurl.com/vizUFO), and has concluded that sightings are at an “all time high.”

NUFORC, which says it’s “dedicated to the collection and dissemination of objective UFO data,” lists 104,947 recorded sightings in the 20th century since 1905, he says, one of the first being of a mysterious airship over Portland, as reported in The Oregonian.

Monfort noted that sphere-shaped UFOS were among the first types spotted, but soon saucers were “dominating the scene” until the 1990s, when mysterious lights became the most often reported phenomenon. U.S. sightings are almost 300 times higher than the global median, and the most likely places for a UFO sighting are the West, but particularly the Pacific Northwest.

By the way, NUFORC already has 13 sighting reports from Oregon in 2017. Keep your eyes on the skies, folks.

— Elleda Wilson