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  • Datasets:

    • Our primary dataset is the CORGIS UFO sightings database, which offers comprehensive details about sightings, including location, date, durations, and descriptions. 

    • Link to dataset

    • Link to data visualization

    • Graphs of visualizations of the data in UFO sightings dataset

    • Maps of locations of UFO sighting incidents across different states, highlighting geographic hotspots

  • Scholar Articles:

    • We will incorporate scholar articles discussing UFOs and related social issues as well as suspicions from Digital Humanities class and University of California, Berkeley library.

      • Risam, R., “Beyond the Margins: Intersectionality and Digital Humanities”

      • Theory: Reader-Response Criticism

      • Williams, G. H., “Disability, Universal Design, and the Digital Humanities”

      • Manovich, L., “What is Visualization?”

      • Antonio, F. J., Itami, A. S., Dalmedico, J. F., & Mendes, R. S. (2022). On the dynamics of reporting data: A case study of UFO sightings. Physica. A, 603, 127807. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2022.127807

      • Spanos, N. P., Cross, P. A., Dickson, K., & DuBreuil, S. C. (1993). Close encounters: An examination of UFO experiences. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 102(4), 624–632. https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-843X.102.4.624

      • Stubbings, D., Ali, S., & Wong, A. (2024). Who sees UFOs? The relationship between unidentified anomalous phenomena sightings and personality factors. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 38(1), 11–27. https://doi.org/10.31275/20243153

      • Lukinbeal, C. (2021, August 1). Understanding Patterns of Extraterrestrial Phenomena: An Exploratory Spatial Analysis of UFO Sightings Throughout the Contiguous United States from 1910-2014. https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/661331

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For the reason of choosing UFO sightings as our dataset, UFO sightings have long been one of the most mysterious phenomena that scientists have spent so long to explore and research on. The discovery and acknowledgement of UFO sightings means an affirmation of another spotted intelligent life in the universe. We believe it would be helpful and interesting to have a site with a collection of UFO Sightings data and, more importantly, a visualization of all the data and time to provide a more direct interaction with the past encounters of UFOs. 

We are able to use intersectionality theory to understand our current society. First, we could perform research on the effects of UFO sightings on social media. How does each UFO sighting event affect the public opinions and government decisions and actions. Does the government make a hidden project regarding UFO events? The intersection between politics and the public could be very complex because we do not want to create malicious public opinions that lead to an unstable society. Also, gender studies could play a significant role here because people generally think men are more attracted to the scientific fiction and outer space related contents but there are many excellent female scientists and contributors that make significant progress on UFO researchers. How can we conclude the different opinions from each gender and understand the bias of this topic?

Acknowledgement

We extend our heartfelt thanks to the various individuals and institutions that supported our project:
CORGIS: For providing access to essential datasets and descriptions for visualization and analysis.
University of California, Berkeley Libraries: For providing access to essential resources such as scholar articles that guide our direction in analyzing and researching related events of UFO sightings.
Professor Andressa Macena Maia: For her extraordinary teaching at class, and interesting designs of class activities as well as assignments.
GSIs of Digital Humanities class: Manish Kumar, Manish Kumar, Rebecca Baugh for their patient instructions, invaluable guidance, and thoughtful feedback throughout the project.

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