In the top left map we can see notable number of reported cases in the Pacific West Division and almost all of the Midwest, Northeast, and South Regions. The map gives us a general idea where UFO sightings have been occuring, but the top right map gives us a better sense on where the majority of sightings are. Each circle corresponds to a reported sighting with the size representing the number of reports received at that specific location. The most major circles appear in Washington, the Southern West Region, Texas, the Great Lakes in the East North Central Division, Florida, and in the North East Region by New York and New Jersey. Now let's take a look at all sightings by state.

With the map above and the table below we can see the top 5 states with the most reported sightings and the top 5 cities that contributed to their sightings count from 1965 - 2013.

If we refer back to the map of sightings clustered by location, we can see the counts add up. In California larger circles are indeed where Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, San Jose, and San Francisco would be. In fact according to Wikipedia, the cities listed in California are in the top list of largest cities by population. Similarly if we look at the other state cities we can make a similar conclusion that most sightings are reported in bigger more populous cities.

In this plot of daily sightings from 1965 - 2013 we see a fluctuation of sightings every year. The peak sightings appear to be sometime in middle of the year. We can also see a significant increase of sightings starting from about 1965 onwards. There is an obvious trend happening across each years, however, this plot is difficult to gain insight. Let's look into the sightings by month.

In this aggregated plot of all sightings we see a rise beginning in May with the highest peak in July as it lowers into August. Looking back at the previous plot, we can see that this is evident from the fluctuations across each year. One possible factor that plays a role in the rise of sightings is that those months are in Summer where people are likely to be out.

Here we can see the top UFO shapes throughout each region are the same with the exception of Disk in the Northeast. This is a bit surprising as one might expect that the geography of different regions may impact the shapes seen. It may have help to look at divisions instead, as regions might be too general. However, this gives us a good overview on the main shapes being seen. Below are examples of these different reported shapes. You can click each image to take you to it's source or here to view more recoreded UFO shapes.

In the top left map the size of each circle corresponds to the number of disasters that affected that county from 1965 - 2013. We see the majority of disaster cases and larger circles occuring in the South and North East Regions in addition to Southern California. Accumulating all the counts of affected counties by state, the map on the right clearly shows Texas counties have been affected the most throughout this time period. The table below confers this with the top 5 states with most declared disaters affecting counties.

The table is evident of the maps above where we see these states being affected all along the Gulf and East coast of the United States. This is informative, but let's break down the disater declarations further.

In this map we counted disaters for every county in the United States (uncolored counties were not in our data set). We can see that most counties affected by disasters follow along the Gulf Coast, but only have 8 - 24 occurences. In the bubble map that appears different, but because there is overlap between the circles. The table below shows the top 5 disaster counties.

Again, the table is clear of the map with Southern California's top 3 neighboring counties with most declared disasters. Looking into the data we find that fires make up most of these disasters. It's not too suprising as California has many fires and can be justified on FEMA's map of wildfire activity by county here. As for Collier and Monroe County in Florida they reside at the tip of the state and are more prone to Hurricanes along with the other Florida and Lousiana counties evident from the map.

In this plot we see a low activity of declared disasters, with some ocassinaoly spikes, but more significantly we see a huge spike of affected counties in 2005 which correspond to Hurricane Katrina. You can read more about it here from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Below is a picture of Katrina; you can see how much area and counties the hurricane covers.

When we look at the disasters by divisions the majority belong to the South Region, evident of the previous maps. More specifically, well over 1000 counties near in the Gulf Coast have been affected by Hurricanes from 1965 - 2013. Interestingly, looking at the West North Central and Mountain Divisions we also see Hurricane as the top count. This is because counties in these divisions were also warned of Hurricane Katrina at that time. We might say that Hurricane Katrina is an anomly across all the years of data. However, we still notice tornadoes and fires occuring.

Similarly as before the size of the circles corresponds to the number of sightings and affected counties by disasters. By looking at both sightings and disasters overlayed on each other we do indeed some overlap with larger circles. We can see that major sightings area like Southern California are covered with disasters along with areas like Florida, Texas, and New York area.

From analyzing the data sets we found Los Angeles, both the city and the county to have the most UFO Sightings and Disasters. In the above plots we see the breakdown. Again, the top 5 UFO shapes are Light, Triangle, Circle, Sphere and Fireball with fires and earthquakes as the top 2 disasters. Among these disasters there was a single report that mentions a disaster, specifically the Northridge Earthquake in 1994. It follows,

"About half an hour after the quake me my folks and I went outside. I was siting alone by a sand box when for some reason I decided to look up and as I looked up a huge fire ball travelling north to south went across the sky."

However the person reports it was only seconds worth, is it credible? Assuming same reported sightings is more credible let's explore the top sightings on a given day.

Below we have the top 5 reported UFO sightings by multiple people from 1965 - 2013.

We see the top reportings occur in Tinley Park, Illinois where the first major occurence happened in August 2004. Below is one of the 27 reports made to NUFORC following from the incident and a video about the phenonmenon that occured that day.

"3 redish orange lights came out of the north and spread apart into almost a perfect triangle, then the bottom 2 seemed to connect. After this the top one started drifting upward almost hovering and then the other one did the same until they formed a perfect line in the sky and then one by one dissapeared. Then another one came 5 minutes later same thing too, except solo and started to dim and fade away just like the others. It was the weirdest thing ive ever seen. Definatly not an aircraft ive ever seen."

Another notable mention are the occurences in Pheonix, Arizona known as the Phenoix Lights. You can view a video of the occurence and interestingly enough there is a movie coming out April 2017 about the phenomenon.

Since Tinley Park had the most occurences, let's look at the different diasters and UFO shapes that have occured there.

Shockingly there are only 2 declared disasters for Cook County in comparison to the phenomenon that had been occuring. The dates of these disasters don't fall to close to any of the major sightings either. Looking at the UFO shapes over time, we see that Light, Circle, and Triangle appear the most in this county. There appears to be periodic behavior happening between 3rd quarter of a year and the start of a new year.