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Or does the USA just do a lot of weird flying experiments? Isn’t that the Occam’s Razor answer? Implying Americans are crazier seems odd. What would cause th

Or does the USA just do a lot of weird flying experiments? Isn’t that the Occam’s Razor answer? Implying Americans are crazier seems odd. What would cause that? Higher rates of mental illness making their ancestors emigrate from their original countries? Is there any data on that? Western Diet causing mental illness? Too much empty space?

capableweb 6y ago
> Implying Americans are crazier seems odd I'm not implying that (also, no need to imply such a thing, de facto knowledge at this point). I'm implying that the culture in US has a lot more UFOs in it, every major blockbuster alien movie has been produced in the US, as far as I know. Most if not all UFO sightings that gets reported around the world comes from the US. Flying experiments could contribute to that as well, which also go into the culture in the US of doing experimental aircrafts in order to achieve flight-superiority.
- andrewflnr 6y ago
  > Most if not all UFO sightings that gets reported around the world comes from the US. This seems like a sort of sampling bias as a consequence of America being really good at exporting its culture.
  - capableweb 6y ago
    I consume news from three different countries (from three continents), four if you count american news that I come across on HN and Twitter, and the only times I hear anything about UFO sightings on Earth (not about possible alien life on other planets or similar) is either on HN, Twitter or via news that comes from US sources ("This Texas man saw a UFO kindnap a cow in his backyard!"). Could be that my sources are biased of course, but it does certainly feel like the UFO paranoia comes from one specific country.