Spatial Patterns in Public UAP Sighting Reports: A 20-Year Analysis
Between 2000 and 2020, researchers at scientific institutions conducted a Bayesian regression analysis of publicly submitted UAP sighting reports drawn from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC)…
Narration
Two hundred thousand reports filed — sky-view potential determines what gets seen.
The NUFORC database: 150,000 civilian sighting reports spanning two decades.
Bayesian regression tested light pollution, canopy, cloud cover, and military proximity.
Cluster density intensifies near military installation boundaries and open desert corridors.
AARO closed 70 percent of cases as balloons or drones — 21 cases stayed anomalous.
Sky-view potential predicts report clusters — but twenty-one cases still have no answer.