The New Mapping Public Reports of UAPs Across America

The U.S. authorities is accountable for an predicted 5.3 million square miles of domestic air space and 24 million miles of ocean air space. The February 2023 downing of a Chinese surveillance balloon after it had flown across the country raised questions about the degree to which the U.S. government is aware of who is flying what over its territorial skies. The U.S has finite resources to screen objects flying thru its air space. At the same time, advances in technology permit the majority, non-public agencies, and civilian government organizations to perform ever-smaller commercial drones that intentionally or accidentally capture and make contributions to activity the skies. This may tend to make the public report these unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) an essential source of sightings for U.S. government officers. RAND Corp On this report, RAND researchers present a geographic analysis of a 101,151 public reviews of UAP sightings in 12,783 U.S. Census Bureau census certain loc