USC CS599 Analyzes 60,000 UFO Sightings for Pattern Insights, Finds No Conclusive Evidence of Extraterrestrials

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About 60 USC computer science master’s students in CS599, led by Chris Mattmann, tested whether patterns in thousands of UFO sightings point to aliens or earthly causes by scraping ufostalker.com, processing PDFs, clustering images, and adding NOAA data, and they found no conclusive evidence of extraterrestrials but noted patterns like spikes after sci‑fi releases and during thunderstorms, with Team 8 members Matheos Asfaw, Eric Hachuel, Pablo Guidice, Bruno Mazetti, and Teague Ashcraft observing June–August clustering and learning real‑world data‑science and ethics.