UFO Tourism Takes Off At "Hot Spots"

Above, vendors at the 2018 Roswell UFO Festival. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

It is rather timely that Forbes should post about UFO Tourism at this time since the annual UFO Festival is starting today in Roswell, New Mexico. I attended the 2018 festival.

The thesis of the Forbes article is that UFO Tourism is taking off in different "hot spots" around the world and the Forbes article lists them.

They begin with:

U.S. intelligence agencies recently delivered a report on “unidentified aerial phenomena” to Congress, compiled by the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense, to finally make public what the government knows about unidentified flying objects and data analyzed from the encounters.

In the nine-page report on the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force, officials recommend extending research and resources to explore existing unknowns. They also pointed to new ways the government can use new technology to investigate sightings. The report does not confirm or refute the existence of alien life.

Perhaps the most surprising part of the report is that “No standardized reporting mechanism existed until the Navy established one in March 2019. The Air Force subsequently adopted that mechanism in November 2020, but it remains limited to USG reporting.” Indicating that the government never wanted to acknowledge UFOs.

With thousands of UFO sightings in North America over the past year, Peter Davenport, Director of the National UFO Reporting Center, does not think there is any single location that is the most prolific. He tells me, “Everyone seems to talk about “hotspots” for UFO sightings, and many people believe they really exist, but I don’t believe our data support the notion. The only exception may be Horry County, South Carolina, from which NUFORC seems to have received an unusually large number of sightings of mysterious red, yellow, and orange light.”

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