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... Researchers from the University of Utah wanted to look into how local environmental factors affect sightings of these UFOs. Now officially described as unidentified anomalous phenomena or UAPs, the term refers to anything seen in the sky which can't readily be attributed to natural phenomena or openly described technology.

The analysis of reports recorded in the past couple of decades and measures of features such as sky cover and lighting conditions revealed most hot spots can be found largely in less brightly lit, more open states like Washington, Nevada, and New Mexico. ...

@#2

I prefer to say, Unexplained Flying Objects instead of Unidentified Flying Objects.

@#6 ... Yeah, no. ...

That's the huge problem in this area.

There are too many what I call "crazies."

Their efforts actually seem to impede the attempts at trying to understand unexplained flying objects.