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.
Data comes originally from NUFORC, was cleaned and uploaded to Github by Sigmond Axel, and some exploratory plots were created by Jonathan Bouchet a few years back.
H/t to Georgios Karamanis for sharing the data as an issue on Github. If you want to submit a dataset of your own interest, please do so as an Issue on our GitHub! If you do submit a dataset, please drop a link and some context as an issue. Thanks!
ufo_sightings <- readr::read_csv("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/master/data/2019/2019-06-25/ufo_sightings.csv")
| variable | class | description |
|---|---|---|
| date_time | datetime (mdy h:m) | Date time sighting occurred |
| city_area | character | City or area of sighting |
| state | character | state/region of sighting |
| country | character | Country of sighting |
| ufo_shape | character | UFO Shape |
| encounter_length | double | Encounter length in seconds |
| described_encounter_length | character | Encounter length as described (eg 1 hour, etc |
| description | character | Description of encounter |
| date_documented | character | Date documented |
| latitude | double | Latitude |
| longitude | double | Longitude |