These stats are interesting (UFOs)

[MorningGlow]

UFO Sightings Increase 67 Percent In 3 Years, History Channel Investigates Unexplained Aerial Phenomena

Unemployment, gas prices, and fear over global warming aren't the only things skyrocketing -- so are mysterious objects rocketing through the sky.

The Mutual UFO Network -- the largest privately funded UFO research organization in the world -- tells The Huffington Post that more people than ever are reporting unidentified flying objects, mostly in the United States and Canada.

"Over the past year, we've been averaging 500 sighting reports a month, compared to about 300 three years ago (67 percent)," MUFON international director Clifford Clift said. "And I get one or two production companies contacting me every week, wanting to do stories on UFOs."

So far this week, mysterious aerial lights in Laredo, Texas, and Kansas City, MO., lived up to, at least initially, the strict definition of UFOs, namely "Unidentified" Flying Objects.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/26/ufos-pilots-history-channel_n_935847.html

[get the red out]

1. I figured we were going to have more sightings

When the news media pushed the theme a couple of years or so ago of "where are all the UFO's?" and "why don't people see UFO's anymore?". I was listening to a lot of UFO radio programs on the internet during that time so I knew it was BS propaganda to say people weren't encountering anything. They must have been trying to get that into people's minds because the phenomenon was increasing.

[Celebration]

2. I do think some of it is media driven

It's hard to know if there is more activity or not. People are much more prone towards reporting encounters after they see publicity re: such things as the UFO over the Chicago airport, for instance.