The Midwest is used to hearing flyover jokes, but when it comes to unidentified flying objects in the sky, we really seem to be missing out.
Driving the news: Enigma Labs is a startup that developed an app where users can upload videos of odd sightings in the sky to share with others.
- While the West and Southwest are hotbeds of strange activity, the Midwest has some of the fewest reports per capita, Alejandro Rojas, a UFO researcher, tells Axios.
How it works: An AI program on Enigma Labs app generates a score to help determine whether an uploaded user video captures something truly unidentifiable or just a plane, satellite or other known object.
- Because the government typically doesn’t have enough data to study these anomalies, the app’s goal is to crowdsource as much information as possible, Rojas says.
Zoom in: Since the app started in 2023, Iowa users have submitted 118 sightings.
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