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New York has climbed two places to rank third among the most likely states in the United States for alien abductions, according to Casino.ca’s annual ranking published to mark National Alien Abduction Day on 20 March. The gambling guide compiled the list by sifting through 150,000 sighting entries on the National UFO Reporting Center covering the period between 1974 and 2026, cross-referenced with social media data for sighting details , to calculate UFO sightings per capita across all fifty states. Some UAP documents have already been made publicly available through the National Archives following legislation signed by former President Joe Biden in 2023, and Congress has held three hearings on the subject since that year.
The domains arrived less than a month after Trump said he would order federal agencies to release government files on extraterrestrial life and UFOs, comments made in response to former President Barack Obama saying on a podcast with Brian Tyler Cohen , that he believes extraterrestrial life exists but has never personally seen evidence of it. The list arrives at a moment of renewed public interest in UFOs and extraterrestrial life, weeks after President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to release classified government files on extraterrestrial life and UFOs, and days after two new federal government website domains related to aliens were registered by a US agency, fuelling fresh speculation about what the government may be preparing to disclose. Trump criticised Obama for releasing what he described as “classified information. The federal government has not explained why the two domains were created.
