America’s top city for UFO sightings revealed – and the exact time of day you should watch the skies
If you are hoping to spot a UFO zipping across the evening sky, there is one major US city where your chances are highest, new research has revealed.
Phoenix, Arizona, has been ranked as America’s supernatural hotspot, with a whopping 323 sightings in the last decade, according data from the National UFO Reporting Center compiled by BetUS.
New York City came in second place with 313 reported incidents and Nevada, which is home to the infamous Area 51, came in third with 309 alleged sightings.
While the data only goes as far back as 2013, Phoenix has long been a hotbed of paranormal activity – with its biggest UFO event occurring on March 13, 1997.
On this date, hundreds of people reported seeing ‘The Phoenix Lights’.
The sightings were so widespread that even a 12-year-old Meghan McCain claiming she saw them – with what she witnessed that night leaving a mark.
After her mom allowed her ‘to go out to the yard to take a look’, McCain told the DailyMail.com that she saw ‘giant, bright objects floating in a straight line in the distance’.
‘Even today, it is hard to explain, and there are varying descriptions of what happened over Phoenix between approximately 7:30 pm and 10:30 pm,’ she added.
Years later in 2016, locals in Gilbert, just southeast of Phoenix, claimed they had seen a strange set of three lights moving north to south in the East Valley area.
One resident, Todd, shared footage to his X account, writing in the caption: ‘Did anybody else just see a UFO!?’
Even more eerily, in 2019, a live-stream just outside Phoenix captured a purple beam of light bursting through the foreground, and multiple alleged UFOs were caught zipping through the night sky.
Around 65 percent of Americans believe that intelligent life exists on other planets, according to Pew Research Center.
The recent BetUS data showed that some of the other top scoring cities for UFO sightings are in close proximity to notorious locations known for suspected alien activity, such as Area 51 or Roswell, New Mexico.
Roswell had been dubbed the ‘UFO capital of the world’ and was believed to be near the site of an alleged alien spaceship crash in 1947 known as the ‘Roswell Incident‘.
In the same year, the National UFO Reporting Center was founded and it has processed more than 180,000 reports.
The city is home to the International UFO Museum and Research Center, which has been open for nearly 30 years and hosts an annual UFO Festival.
Area 51 in Nevada, meanwhile, is one of the most notorious spots for alien conspiracy theories. The site became forever associated with aliens after an interview in 1989.
Former government physicist, Robert Lazar, told a Las Vegas news station that the site housed and studied alien spacecraft. He has said it was his job to to recreate the technology for military use, according to National Geographic.
Other top cities for UFO sightings include Portland, Oregon, in fourth place with 279 reports, and Tuscon, Arizona, ranked fifth with 244 .
Many cities listed were notably large, with more potential eyes looking at the sky and therefore a higher likelihood of a potential sighting.
On the West Coast, six California cities featured on the list of 200 – with the state’s highest ranking held by Los Angeles which came in seventh place with 222 sightings.
According to the BetUS, July is best time of year to spot a UFO in New York, Ohio, Colorado and Oregon – with the most common time between 9pm and 10pm.
For states such as California and Arizona, November is reportedly the best month to watch the skies.
In 2019, potential evidence of alien life was announced by an Oxford research project, Breakthrough Listen, with hints that the proof would eventually be released to the public.
They had reportedly discovered a signal – a five hour-long burst of radio waves – which appeared to be from a region around 4.2 light years away from Earth.
But the race to find clearer evidence has sparked debate since its discovery.
Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick – a longtime CIA scientist who headed the US military’s UFO-chasing All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) – recently admitted to the existence of the program to recover ‘alleged alien tech’.
This revelation comes amid decades of speculation and whistleblower testimony alleging that America had been in possession of alien craft for decades.
