UFO Sightings Maps:   North America   the 1950s

UFO Map: North America, 1950s All hell broke loose in the 1950s.   At least four major UFO sightings waves worldwide became news and Hollywood movie material.

<= This map shows all *U* recorded sightings for the entire decade, but only for North America, and not all of that.   *U* lists 4901 sightings worldwide for the 1950s, 27% of the entire database.   Of those, 2776 were in North America (USA = 2569, Canada = 156)   Mexico and Central America show up with 56 more.

Europe (not shown) has 1192 events listed, with 627 in France alone.   Most of those were in September and October of 1954, the greatest wave on record here.   Even Africa came in with a surprising 155 sightings.

This map shows all 1950s sightings listed for this area.

Now scroll down and see the "off-season" sightings alone.

Same map minus 4 major waves
<=   This is the same map, but with data for four major waves removed.

Months disallowed are March-April 1950;   July-September 1952;   September-November 1954 (Europe);   and November of 1957

Both maps look alike at first.   With the wave data gone however, certain alignments and clusters seem to emerge.   The bottom map appears 'darker' on the Eastern Seaboard going north-east from Washington, DC.   The Great Lakes area is also darker, and so is the West Coast. The Great Plains and Rocky Mountain states look about the same on both maps.

One might infer that the great waves somehow favored large bodies of water, while the slower periods were more evenly distributed, at least in North America during the 1950s.
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