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Assuming this isn’t just a big psyop trying to scare US adversaries, and that UFO’s are real… the US was the first to detonate nukes, and on its own territory, which might explain some of it. Maybe the UFO’s were investigating how scientifically and technologically advanced humanity was becoming, and naturally focused on nuclear tech as a leading indicator.

The 1936 Berlin Olympics TV broadcast might also have alerted them to humanity, and travel time of the broadcast plus travel time of UFO’s to Earth might have resulted in them arriving right around when nukes were invented (if they’re from, say, Alpha Centauri which is 4 light-years away).

The US and Europe also have free press where things like this are more likely to be publicly reported than in say, the USSR back in the day, or China under the CCP. Which in conjunction with the above may explain sightings maps like this one, where sightings are most frequent in the US and secondarily in Europe: https://updb.app/map?zoom=1.00&lon=149.0917&lat=37.3003

Also, if you search number of reports by date ranges, look at what you get:

1-1943: 1566 sightings reports

1944-2023: 294,641 sightings reports

Two orders of magnitude more sightings reports in the 80yrs since nukes were invented, vs in the almost two millennia previously. Obviously we also had more robust and technologically advanced media in the latter time frame, so that contributes much to the discrepancy. But still a huge discrepancy.

That's cool that website! https://updb.app UPDB is an open database of unexplained phenomena (UFO/UAP) reports. Wow didn't know about that.

I guess you know the "insider theory" as to why UFOs came after nukes: it's that nuclear weapons explosions send shockwaves through the "cosmic web" and interdimensionally, that fucks up aliens' realms/dimensions. So we think it's bad here, but somewhere else something else bad is going on. I wonder if that's a secret reason why countries shifted to underground tests, and then a ban. Too much ET pushback - ha ha ha! :)

But just now I'm thinking how is a nuclear explosion different to a star? Maybe because latter is gravitationally stabilized and "in equilibrium" with its environment? I don't know. That's why we need to science the shit out of it! Rather than having anything we may know and have locked in super secret programs, amenable to crazy disinfo and all this other bullshit! Ha ha ha! :)

Heh, I wasn’t aware of that theory about nukes disrupting alternate dimensions.

There’s a simpler explanation though - nukes emit a powerful electromagnetic pulse at the speed of light that might be strong enough to be detectable by anyone listening.

Also the 1936 Berlin Olympics TV broadcast was the first human-created electromagnetic signal strong enough to reach other planets and possibly be detectable.

Those were the first energy emissions by humanity that aliens might have detected. If aliens do exist, it’s little surprise they came here to investigate around the time of those events.

> The 1936 Berlin Olympics TV broadcast might also have alerted them to humanity, and travel time of the broadcast plus travel time of UFO’s to Earth might have resulted in them arriving right around when nukes were invented (if they’re from, say, Alpha Centauri which is 4 light-years away).

If they're from Alpha Centauri and can travel > 0.8 c.

Yes, I’m assuming they have some kind light or near-light propulsion capability here.

I'm personally highly skeptical of the claims he's making—or that extraterrestrials are here in any capacity—but to take a stab at your questions:

- the folks who do believe in UFOs would say these crashes happen worldwide, but it's countries like the US/Russia who use their influence to swoop in, recover the pieces and then mount a coverup.

- UFOs have been sighted over urban areas, although it's rarer. If I were a UFO pilot, I'd probably avoid cities for the same reason the USAF doesn't fly classified aircraft over urban areas either (at least during the day)

I don't know what his angle is here—fame, mental issues, a genuine belief that he's onto something. I'll admit the recent focus on these things has aroused my curiosity, but like I said, aliens aren't at the top of my "credible explanations" list.

I'm betting FTL is impossible due to physics.

It would take 10k's-100k's of years to send a single autonomous robotic probe from a supposedly "nearby" inhabited planet even 500 ly away. We can't even make something that lasts 1000 years, much less something that would survive an interstellar journey.

This guy is likely launching a book, public speaking, and subscription blog career.

No, but the US as the global superpower is most threatened by the appearance of a superior authority, so they have the most interest in creating a counterintelligence campaign about the topic, hence why the US seems obsessed with creating UFO info (and disinfo).

But there's actually a lot from other countries, if you look into it. But you do have to research it, and you might not want to, leaving you with the impression you currently have! Ha ha ha :)

Well there have been other places to have reported objects crash landing - Brazil, France and Russia being the most commonly cited examples from what I've heard about.

I think it's a fascinating topic for discussion - while not necessarily believing there's some extra terrestrial conspiracy or what not - but I don't think the argument of 'it only happens in america' is strictly fair

> Is there something special about the US’s landmass that UFOs only crash there? Or do superior alien life forms who have the capability to travel between planets and probably solar systems, for some reason are only interested in the U.S. when they come to explore the earth?

Actually, it appears they like nuclear weapons and the associated infrastructure to make them. All of the US atomic weapons plants got a lot of UFO sightings when they were first built and operated, with very little after that. https://www.explorescu.org/post/uap-pattern-recognition-stud...