UAP Sightings Across States: Frequencies, Rankings, and the Abduction Proxy.

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A study using about 150,000 reports from the National UFO Reporting Center and social media finds a national average of one sighting per 1,770 people, places Colorado 18th at about one per 1,596 residents and Louisiana as the lowest at about one per 3,464, with higher rates in Delaware (one per 928), Washington (977), New York (1,003), Oregon (1,054) and Florida (1,102); abduction reports are used as a proxy since not all sightings involve abductions, and the release coincides with National Alien Abduction Day as Barack Obama reopened discussions about extraterrestrial life, with Nate Trela covering trending Colorado and Utah news for the USA TODAY Network.