Are there aliens in YOUR neighborhood? Fascinating map reveals the UFO hotspots across the US

Individuals hoping to find aliens and UFOs in the US will likely have the best luck discovering them in the West.

According to data submitted by the National UFO Reporting Center and the US Census Bureau, more than 100,000 alien sightings were submitted to the Reporting Center between 2000 and 2023.

Today, the national average of alien sightings between those years stands at 34.3 per 100,000 residents nationwide.

But one province known for being home to perhaps the most famous alien landmark tops the list. Lincoln County, Nevada, home to Area 51, is the county with the largest share of the list.

The province is home to no fewer than 820.9 observations per 100,000 inhabitants.

Other areas where nearly 500 to 600 aliens have been sighted between 2003 and 2023 include Alpine County, California, Petroleum County, Montana and La Paz County, Arizona.

Area 51 is one of the most famous secret air bases that is full of urban legends about aliens and UFOs

Area 51 is one of the most famous secret air bases that are full of them urban legends about aliens and UFOs.

Eric Taber has worked as a defense aviation contractor for thirteen years and has been granted security clearance to work on military aircraft.

In a recent interview with DailyMail.com, he revealed the story that his late great-uncle Sam Urquhart, an Area 51 contractor, told him about a UFO at the mysterious desert base.

Taber testified in May before the Pentagon’s UFO investigation unit, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which collects accounts of alleged government possession of non-human craft.

The claim — though an unverified story from a now-deceased witness — is part of a long history of rumors about potential alien craft or futuristic spaceships stored at the Nevada desert air base near Groom Lake, north of Las Vegas.

Urquhart started his job at Area 51 working for defense contractor EG&G, which later partnered with Raytheon to become JT3 LLC and then JT4 LLC.

‘He was head of security for his engineering group and a specialist in data configuration. His group did radar cross-section testing.

‘I kept asking him about UFOs. He said, ‘I don’t know anything.’ One day we were standing on his porch and he said, “Okay, let me tell you about a craft I knew.”

He said: ‘When I first got there in 1997, I had a personal conversation with a senior EG&G engineer whose group was tasked with reverse-engineering an object brought there by some CIA people in the 1980s. .’

“It would have just been found in a remote desert location, completely intact.

‘The senior EG&G engineer described to my great uncle that it was egg-shaped, about the size of an SUV, smooth and seamless, metallic looking, silver gray in color, with no control surfaces, no valves, no inlet and no exhaust, and no writing or symbols on the outside.

‘These are the best and brightest engineers you can imagine. They tried in vain to figure out what the power source was, how to activate it and how it works. They tried to put electricity in it.

“X-rays couldn’t penetrate it; it appeared on x-rays as a solid object. They tried to open it and enter the hull; they couldn’t.

‘They said they could take some very small samples of the material. And I’m not an expert on chemistry, but my guess is that based on the isotope ratio or the mixture of elements, they concluded that it wasn’t made on Earth.”

But Area 51 and Nevada aren’t the only places where UFO sightings are common. Arthur County, Nebraska, was second on the list with 618.6 observations. Only 434 people live in the small province.

Third on the list was Alpine County, California, which has a population of 1,204 and votes entirely by mail.

Petroleum County, Montana, was fourth on the list and was the last of the state’s 56 counties to host. It is home to just 524 people and two rivers.

Fifth on the list was La Paz County, Arizona, home to approximately 16,557 people. The county is located in rural western Arizona and is home to several ghost towns.

Arizona’s La Paz County (pictured) also ranked high for UFO sightings. About 16,557 people live in the province.

According to veteran scientist and intelligence officer Sean Kirkpatrickindividuals who believe in aliens can hold positions in the US government.

“True believers don’t just stand outside government; Many of them are in government,” Kirkpatrick said.

Nevada’s late U.S. Senator Harry Reid was one such believer in extraterrestrial life.

“Senator Harry Reid was a true believer and thought, ‘Hey, the government is hiding this from congressional oversight,’” he said.

There have been more and more discussions over the years between individuals wanting to get answers about the existence of aliens and UFOs.

US representative Robert García last year even expressed an opinion about unidentified aerial phenomena.

“UAPs, whatever they may be, can pose a serious threat to our military and our civilian aircraft, and that must be understood,” he stated.

“We need to encourage more coverage of UAPs, not less. The more we understand, the safer we will be.”

Mysterious footage shows a group of UFOs flying over Philadelphia – with two of the craft even strangely merging together

Late last year, President Joe Biden’s December visit to Los Angeles for a campaign fundraiser caused such a stir that even aliens might have wanted to see what all the fuss was about

At approximately 4:14 p.m. on November 7, 2006, a ramp worker at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport noticed a metal, saucer-shaped craft floating in the air. In the photo: an image of the UFO, probably taken from an airport employee’s phone

There have been numerous UFO sightings across America in recent years. Earlier this year, mysterious footage showed a group of UFOs flying over Philadelphia – with two of the craft even strangely merging together.

A witness uploaded the bizarre video of the sighting to Reddit and described the large group of lights as “twisting and shooting back and forth.”

The user said the multi-colored lights flew “very high” over Philadelphia.

Late last year, President Joe Biden’s December visit to Los Angeles for a campaign fundraiser caused such a stir that even aliens might have wanted to see what all the fuss was about!

Airplane spotters caught a UFO on camera hovering over Air Force 1 in Los Angeles during Biden’s December 10 trip, DailyMail.com can reveal.

The spherical white or silver object was filmed several times above LAX airport and spotted by multiple witnesses.

In 2006, a ramp worker at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport saw a metal, saucer-shaped spacecraft floating in the sky.

The sighting, which lasted five minutes and was witnessed by at least 12 United Airlines executives, made international headlines thanks to a tape of Federal Aviation Administration radio communications released through the Freedom of Information Act.

Although the FAA attributed the incident to a “hole cloud” and astronomer Mark Hammergren, then at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, agreed, the case has remained unsolved – and has tantalized UFO researchers ever since.