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Source: National UFO Reporting Center's Tier 1 UFO sightings data. The organization describes Tier 1 sightings as “The most dramatic sightings - strange structured craft or highly anomalous phenomena seen at close distance.”

UFO reports became noticeably more colorful over time, though earlier decades have smaller sample sizes. The biggest shift seems to be the decrease of gray and the increase of black and white sightings. In fact, the 2020s account for 70% of the white UFO sightings.

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