Why does all of this alien stuff take place mostly in the USA?

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• jesterraiin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Consider these possibilities:

  • USA is considerably new country and built with no distinctive, ancient history and mythology of its own. As such, its people often grab every opportunity to produce a mythology they can consider their own. It makes them perceive as unnatural/supernatural things we, citizens of old world rationalize, or brush off as of little value.
  • USA is an experiment by whatever the “aliens” are, so it’s natural for them to supervise it with more interest than the rest of the world.
  • There are no aliens, it’s just USA itself testing new technologies of theirs.
  • Other superpowers are very secretive by default and they simply hush-hush every sighting they can.

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• Sunflip@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because most of the crazy lunatics are in the US?

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  • TwoPiece@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Idk, isn’t lunatics eveywhere?

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• kryptonicus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because the major export product of the United States is American culture. UFO/alien abduction/government cover-ups are kinda baked into American popular culture at this point. Just the idea that the government is simultaneously inconvenient yet able to successfully hide far reaching evidence of alien visitation is as American as baseball and apple pie

  I’ve no doubt people are looking up at the night sky all over the world and seeing things that they think are possibly alien craft. I’ve also no doubt that there are stories and folklore about abductions in every country on earth. But American culture is insidious and infects just about everything. This forces every other event to be reframed in reference to the American UFO phenomenon.

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• Kumabear@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My theory… Lead pipes and general high level of heavy metals in the environment, especially in the areas many of these sightings happen in…

  Or idk aliens maybe…

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• DaughterOfMars@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The real answer is that it doesn’t; you simply hear about it more. The other superpowers who are flying super-sonic jets around all day are much more secretive and if you think the retribution is bad here let me tell you it is worse in China or Russia. Also, people see these things with their naked eye all the time. Seriously, drive out to the mid-west and just look at the sky at night. You will see them up there, making their 90 degree turns and all. But the stigma is really so bad within our culture that people just don’t talk about it, and light pollution is so bad in the cities that you can’t see the sky anywhere near one.

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• dogslayeggs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Possibly because the US defense industry dwarfs the rest of the world and is constantly testing new technology that can be confused for UFOs. Russia and China, while also having large defense industries, are nowhere near what the US spends.

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• redcalcium@lemmy.institute ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Where I live, people believe supernatural stuff more than UFO stuff. So when they see something weird, the first thing in their mind would be ghosts instead of aliens.

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• kersploosh@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s a cultural thing? Maybe there are a disproportionate number of alien believers in the US so they are more likely to attribute odd sightings to aliens.

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• Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A list of countries ranked by gullibility would solve this riddle.

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• Reva@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Aliens are big in American pop culture, and alien conspiracies even moreso, so it’s going to be a pretty big community of people. It’s also likely that if someone suffers from psychosis, they might go down the alien route in their delusion because it’s familiar to them through popular culture.

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