Don your tinfoil hat for this one!
Along with a beautiful coastline, you may find that California is attractive for humanoid organ gathering. A study by the National UFO Report Center, crunching data from 1974 to 2025, finds that of the 149,000 UFO sighting reports, a whopping 36,286 of those were in California.
That’s important news as National Alien Abduction Day looms (March 20: it’s on your calendar, right?).
This gem of interstellar data is that one in every 1,075 Californians may be abducted. For Americans in general, the risk factor is 1 in 1,834, according to this spurious, I mean valuable, data. Need to relax a little? Fill your bowl with gumbo and enjoy the fact that people in Louisiana are the least likely to be abducted by aliens. You’re probably thinking about Area 51 in Nevada; that state is the 10th most likely one for you to find yourself in the tractor beam (1 in 1,740).
The study actually conflates UFO sightings with alien abduction rates, but we suppose seeing a UFO could get you one step closer to being beamed up.
The states with the most UFO sightings:
1. California
2. Washington
3. Florida
4. Oregon
5. New York
6. Texas
7. Pennsylvania
8. Arizona
9. Colorado
10. Nevada