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Ufo Sightings CSV File

From the CORGIS Dataset Project

By Sam Donald
Version 1.0.0, created 10/28/2022
Tags: UFO, Sightings

Overview

This data includes >80,000 recorded UFO “sightings” around the world, including the UFO shape, lat/long and state/country of where the sighting occurred, duration of the “event” and the data_time when it occurred.

https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/2e9bd5a67e09b14d01f616b00f7f7e0931515d24/data/2019/2019-06-25

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Key Descriptions

Key List of... Comment Example Value
Location.City String City or area of sighting "anchor point"
Location.State String state/region of sighting "AK"
Location.Country String Country of sighting "US"
Data.Shape String UFO Shape "disk"
Data.Encounter duration Float Encounter length in seconds 300.0
Data.Description excerpt String Description of encounter "Large UFO over Mt. ILIAMNA Alaska. ((NUFORC Note: Possible contrail behind a high-altitude jet?? PD))"
Location.Coordinates.Latitude Float Latitude 59.7766667
Location.Coordinates.Longitude Float Longitude -151.8313889
Dates.Sighted.Year Integer Year of sighting 2005
Dates.Sighted.Month Integer Month of sighting 5
Date.Sighted.Day Integer Day of sighting 24
Dates.Sighted.Hour Integer Hour of sighting 18
Dates.Sighted.Minute Integer Minute of sighting 30
Dates.Documented.Year Integer Year of Documentation 2005
Dates.Documented.Month Integer Month of Documentation 5
Dates.Documented.Day Integer Day of Documentation 28