Interesting ATS post

[Apocalypto]

I had noticed this myself, and when I saw a post to this effect on ATS, I thought I'd share. There does seem to be a ramping up of the UFO/Alien topic in the MSM going on.


Disclosure imminent? Look at these headlines from the past few days

 

[Gareth]

There does seem to be a lot of articles there. But (without reading them) I can only guess the majority come from the same source material (event/paper/article/whatever).

 

[Xylo]

I had noticed this myself, and when I saw a post to this effect on ATS, I thought I'd share. There does seem to be a ramping up of the UFO/Alien topic in the MSM going on.


Disclosure imminent? Look at these headlines from the past few days

Nothing at all to do with disclosure at any level, in my opinion. It has to do with ratings and what sells.

Everyone knows that the top 5 things searched on the internet include porn and UFOs. Since mainstream media can't use porn to sell their media...well it stands to reason.

 

[Apocalypto]

Since mainstream media can't use porn to sell their media...well it stands to reason.

You must be either very young or very blind. The MSM has been using sex to sell products for decades.

You other comment - "Everyone knows that the top 5 things searched on the internet include porn and UFOs." - doesn't speak to the substance of the links on that ATS post.

The bottom line is, I had noticed a ramping up of news on UFOs and ETs in the MSM, prior to finding this ATS post this week. In other words, the ATS post came up at the same time I noticed it myself.

I'm not saying it means that "disclosure" (ohhh ahhh) is imminent. I'm just saying what I'm saying; there has been a higher level of coverage of UFOs and ETs in the MSM. And there are no obvious outside factors with which to correlate the increase.

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There does seem to be a lot of articles there. But (without reading them) I can only guess the majority come from the same source material (event/paper/article/whatever).

They don't. Some are related, true, but there's actually quite a wide range of ET/UFO-related issues in the links.

 

[bobheck]

Everyone knows that the top 5 things searched on the internet include porn and UFOs.

Not true. According to Google trends, the hottest 10 searches today are:

<table><tbody><tr><td><table class="hotTerm"><tbody><tr><td class="num"> 1.</td> <td>jambo pits</td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr> <tr><td><table class="hotTerm"><tbody><tr><td class="num"> 2.</td> <td>jd salinger</td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr> <tr><td><table class="hotTerm"><tbody><tr><td class="num"> 3.</td> <td>mandation</td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr> <tr><td><table class="hotTerm"><tbody><tr><td class="num"> 4.</td> <td>j.d. salinger</td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr> <tr><td><table class="hotTerm"><tbody><tr><td class="num"> 5.</td> <td>patti labelle</td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr> <tr><td><table class="hotTerm"><tbody><tr><td class="num"> 6.</td> <td>what happened to shane sparks</td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr> <tr><td><table class="hotTerm"><tbody><tr><td class="num"> 7.</td> <td>live for the moment</td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr> <tr><td><table class="hotTerm"><tbody><tr><td class="num"> 8.</td> <td>abdc season 5 crews</td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr> <tr><td><table class="hotTerm"><tbody><tr><td class="num"> 9.</td> <td>ludacris cognac</td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr> <tr><td><table class="hotTerm"><tbody><tr><td class="num">10.</td> <td>john mayer storytellers</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>

 

[Gareth]

Why do I know what absolutely nothing on that list is?

Joke list? That is the weirdest list I've ever seen.

 

[bobheck]

Why do I know what absolutely nothing on that list is?

Joke list? That is the weirdest list I've ever seen.

Don't know. It is what it is.

 

[Ron Collins]

Google trends results for UFO searches are as follows.

Google Insights for UFO

As you can see the US, UK, and Australia all have a "Low" search index for "UFO" keyword searches. Apparently since 2004 the Albanians cant get enough of the topic. 2004 and 2008 are the highest activity years for this keyword. But overall there looks to be a very gradual decline in the searches on the topic.

Take this in comparison to some other topics:
"American Idol"
Google Insights for American Idol

"porn"
Google Insights for porn

"Jon and Kate"
Google Insights for Jon and Kate

"Megan Fox"
Google Insights for Megan Fox

"Weight Watchers"
Google Insights for Weight Watchers

Some Interesting stats concerning the UFO keyword:

In the US, New Mexico gets (anyone surprised) generates the most searches.
(Google Insights for UFO - United States)

In the UK, its Manchester.
(Google Insights for UFO - United Kingdom)

One more...

In Australia, its Tasmania.
(Google Insights for UFO - Australia)

 

[dhatz]

The subject of public's interest in UFOs is important and I tried to start such a discussion in "The UFO forum" a few moinths ago. As I wrote in the past, the public seems to have a curiosity in UFOs, but overall interest is very superficial.

Thanks to RonCollins for providing the Google Insights / Trends links. In fact, I had checked the Google Insights / Trends statistics of UFO-related search terms as soon as those Google services became available. And looking at the current Google stats, I don't see any change of trend vs a year ago.

Note: The Google numbers are "normalized" (i.e. relative to all Web searches) but one can add other search terms on the same graph, to get a feeling of relative popularity of the two terms (on the Google Insights graph of "ufo" try adding any celebrity like "megan fox"). Btw I also had absolute numbers from the web logs of a couple of top-ranking UFO-related Websites.

Last weekend (Saturday) MSN.com homepage prominently featured a photo of the recent "Norway 'UFO' spiral" and had a link to Bing.com for "Best UFO videos" which in turn led several thousands of visitors to my UFO documentaries webpage. My conclusion is that most people will view a UFO story if it is put in front of them, but in the same way they'd view any "bizzare" story, but will lose interest very quickly.

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Looking at the Google Insights graph for UFO in USA from 2004-today, there are several "traffic spikes" in 1Q of 2005, 2007 and 2008 and 2Q-2004.

I would guess the most recent three traffic spikes were caused by the Stephenville TX (Jan-2008), the O'Hare airport (Nov-2006 but first publicized in 1-Jan-2007 in Chicago Tribune) and the much hyped ABC Peter Jennings UFO Special "Seeing is believing" television broadcast in Feb-2005 respectively.

Finally, I looks like the 2Q-2004 Google traffic spike for UFO was due to the Mexico FLIR ("oil well flares") incident in May-2004. It caused the highest spike in Google search traffic for "UFO" (and more so for "UFO video"), probably because the video of the incident was shown on TV many times and the incident involved military aircraft and crew.

Contrast those traffic spikes with the release of various countries' UFO files (Britain, Canada, Brazil, Denmark etc), the Nov-2007 NPC "UFO close encounters" press-conference, the airing of various TV documentaries, CNN Larry King shows on UFOs etc.