Why does all of this alien stuff take place mostly in the USA?

It occurred to me while reading about UFO whistleblower news. Why do the majority of UFO things occur in the United States rather than Russia, China, and other countries?

Edit: Thank you all for answers, they’re really helpful.

Reva,

Aliens are big in American pop culture, and alien conspiracies even moreso, so it’s going to be a pretty big community of people. It’s also likely that if someone suffers from psychosis, they might go down the alien route in their delusion because it’s familiar to them through popular culture.

Ulrich_the_Old,

A list of countries ranked by gullibility would solve this riddle.

zaph,
@zaph@lemmy.world avatar

The US has Hollywood and the rest of the world watches our movies significantly more than we watch theirs. The country who makes the alien movie gets to decide where the aliens are going to make contact. We also have some of the loudest conspiracy theorists but that might just be a bias because I’m from here so obviously they’re who I’d hear.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA,
@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world avatar

We don’t have fae shit in the US

HR_Pufnstuf,

You know why. It requires stupid people.

SocialMediaRefugee, (edited )

Because it has become an almost normal thing now to assume alien ufos and conspiracies are real in the US. Reports of UFOs though have gone down since everyone has a phone camera though. You don’t just have a single guy making a shitty 8mm film of a grainy blob of light.

Russia has a lot of mystical and conspiracy beliefs too. Likely a result of their history of authoritarian govs and religious beliefs.

ArchmageAzor,
@ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world avatar

It’s a combination of the US being a large country, and being full of idiots and quacks.

Coreidan,

Because it’s propaganda created by the US government. You should be asking yourself why is the government working so hard to distract you? What are they trying to hide? It’s not aliens I can promise you that much.

Also ask yourself this. If there is so much discussion and attention to aliens then why is it there is always zero evidence? Absolutely no evidence other then some strangers word.

SocialMediaRefugee,

It would exist without the gov. The gov would likely love to not have to deal with idiots constantly badgering it to reveal “secrets”.

redcalcium,

Where I live, people believe supernatural stuff more than UFO stuff. So when they see something weird, the first thing in their mind would be ghosts instead of aliens.

Kumabear,

My theory… Lead pipes and general high level of heavy metals in the environment, especially in the areas many of these sightings happen in…

Or idk aliens maybe…

TheRealBob,
@TheRealBob@lemmy.world avatar

UFOlogy is huge in Brazil. They have a lot of famous “incidents”, google Varginha alien and you’ll see what I mean.

I’m not a believer at all, I just happen to know about it cause I lived there for a while and one of my coworkers was a UFO nut.

xtremeownage,

Well…

If you think about it…

You hardly ever see any news from Russia or China… mostly because you don’t frequent Russia or China based websites.

Also, turns out, their news generally isn’t in English, except for propaganda

nnrx,

Why does all of this tree falling stuff take place mostly when people are around?

Anitabath097,

You watch movies made in the us

Innocent_Bystander,

Because the USA is the true center of the universe. Duh./s

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