{"id":3549,"date":"2011-01-12T13:55:18","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T18:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3549"},"modified":"2011-01-12T13:55:18","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T18:55:18","slug":"is-hamilton-county-a-ufo-mecca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/01\/12\/is-hamilton-county-a-ufo-mecca\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Hamilton County a UFO mecca?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, first of all &#8212; no.\u00a0 That was an egregiously, shamelessly manipulative headline.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m glad it grabbed your attention, because here&#8217;s something cool.<\/p>\n<p>Not cool about UFOs, but cool about the way statistics can be misleading.<\/p>\n<p>Using information gathered from the National UFO Reporting Center, the <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.slate.com\/articles\/ufo-sightings-map\/\">on-line journal Slate has plotted the number of UFO sitings in each county per 100,000 people<\/a> over the last fifteen years.<\/p>\n<p>They created a cool-looking map and it turns out, Hamilton County comes in second in the Northeast &#8212; trailing only Essex, Vermont in per capita sightings.<\/p>\n<p>According to Slate&#8217;s tally, Hamilton Countonians spotted UFOs 62 times for every 100,000 people in the county over that period. Sounds like a lot, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>But of course, there aren&#8217;t 100,000 people in Hamilton County, there are only about 5,000.<\/p>\n<p>So if I do my math right (and trust me, that&#8217;s not a given) that means people in the central Adirondacks probably reported seeing about three UFOs over that fifteen year period.<\/p>\n<p>Still, that&#8217;s not too bad, right?\u00a0 A visit by flying saucers ever five years or so sounds like plenty to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, first of all &#8212; no.\u00a0 That was an egregiously, shamelessly manipulative headline.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}