Monthly Statistical MUFON Report - for March 2016:
CMS continues to amass sighting reports from around the globe. In March 2016 there were 628 sightings reported to MUFON through CMS from the following countries;
Country | Number of Reports |
UNITED STATES |
428 |
CANADA |
69 |
UNITED KINGDOM |
37 |
AUSTRALIA |
11 |
INDIA |
7 |
MEXICO |
6 |
ARGENTINA |
6 |
SOUTH AFRICA |
5 |
SPAIN |
5 |
THAILAND |
3 |
FRANCE |
3 |
IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF |
3 |
GERMANY |
3 |
COLOMBIA |
2 |
SWEDEN |
2 |
RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
2 |
NEW ZEALAND |
2 |
IRELAND |
2 |
BRAZIL |
2 |
PORTUGAL |
2 |
CAMBODIA |
1 |
EGYPT |
1 |
MOROCCO |
1 |
CROATIA |
1 |
VIET NAM |
1 |
GUATEMALA |
1 |
NORWAY |
1 |
PHILIPPINES |
1 |
BAHAMAS |
1 |
HONDURAS |
1 |
MALAYSIA |
1 |
SAUDI ARABIA |
1 |
NETHERLANDS |
1 |
INDONESIA |
1 |
NIGER |
1 |
MYANMAR |
1 |
POLAND |
1 |
AUSTRIA |
1 |
CUBA |
1 |
PERU |
1 |
ROMANIA |
1 |
SWITZERLAND |
1 |
SLOVENIA |
1 |
VIRGIN ISLANDS, U.S. |
1 |
URUGUAY |
1 |
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO |
1 |
DENMARK |
1 |
CHILE |
1 |
TOTAL: |
628 |
Within the United States the distribution by State was as follows;
State | Number of Reports |
California |
62 |
Florida |
30 |
Texas |
27 |
New York |
20 |
Pennsylvania |
18 |
Washington |
18 |
Ohio |
17 |
Arizona |
16 |
Michigan |
16 |
Oregon |
13 |
Georgia |
12 |
Nevada |
12 |
Missouri |
11 |
North Carolina |
11 |
Illinois |
10 |
Colorado |
10 |
Maryland |
9 |
Massachusetts |
8 |
Indiana |
8 |
Wisconsin |
8 |
Tennessee |
8 |
Virginia |
7 |
New Mexico |
6 |
Kansas |
6 |
South Carolina |
5 |
Minnesota |
5 |
Louisiana |
4 |
Vermont |
4 |
Alaska |
4 |
New Jersey |
4 |
Iowa |
4 |
Alabama |
3 |
Oklahoma |
3 |
Hawaii |
3 |
Idaho |
3 |
New Hampshire |
3 |
Connecticut |
3 |
Kentucky |
3 |
Nebraska |
2 |
Maine |
2 |
Arkansas |
2 |
West Virginia |
2 |
Montana |
2 |
Utah |
2 |
Rhode Island |
1 |
Wyoming |
1 |
If you are getting more sighting reports than listed here, please be sure to enter them manually into CMS. To make this happen automatically, make sure your local MUFON Website is pointing to the CMS Reporting form on www.mufon.com and direct all calls you get to the MUFON website so that witnesses can enter their own report directly into CMS.
ALL sighting reports received by CMS are already filled in by the witness, saving you and your investigators time. Each report is automatically sent to YOU, the State Director and Assistant State Director, for you to assign someone to follow-up and complete the report.
If a UFO sighting comes in over the phone, or by e-mail, and you want to enter it yourself, simply go to CMS at http://mufoncms.com (once logged in) and click on "ADD CASE" in the upper right hand corner of the screen. This gives you a blank sighting reporting form that you can fill out while the witness is on the phone. Once the report is filled out be sure to click "SAVE" and you will have easily added your NEW report to CMS.
Other interesting data points in CMS during March 2016 are the shape of the UFOs reported which were as follows;
Shape of Object | Number of Reports |
Sphere |
97 |
Triangle |
66 |
Other |
66 |
Disc |
54 |
Star-like |
51 |
Unknown |
49 |
Circle |
39 |
Square/Rectangular |
27 |
Cylinder |
27 |
N/A |
22 |
Oval |
22 |
Fireball |
20 |
Cigar |
18 |
Flash |
12 |
Boomerang |
11 |
Saturn-like |
8 |
Diamond |
8 |
Bullet/Missile |
7 |
Chevron |
6 |
Blimp |
5 |
Cone |
5 |
Egg |
5 |
Cross |
2 |
Teardrop |
1 |
as well as the distance from the observer;
Distance from Witness | Number of Reports |
< 100 ft |
106 |
101-500 ft |
97 |
501 ft - 1 Mile |
124 |
Over 1 Mile |
155 |
Unknown |
194 |
NO VALUE |
32 |
Most impressively there were 25 Landings, Hovering, or Takeoffs reported and 0 Entities observed.
To review the CMS data yourself go to www.mufon.com and click on "UFO Case Files" to 1.) Easily look at the Last 20 Sightings, or 2.) Do a customized search of the CMS database by date and/or location, or 3.) Logon to CMS for even more detailed UFO sighting information about your State and the World.
I hope you are enjoying our new internet based Sighting and Reporting System. For questions regarding its use please refer to the User Guide available on your CMS main menu screen. Please send your questions and/or suggestions to Jan Harzan at janharzan@hotmail.com.
Thank you!
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