UFO Sightings Map:
North America 1953 - 1956
Between the great North American UFO Waves of 1952 (810 listings)
and 1957 (318) lie four years of relative quiet, 1953, 1954, 1955
and 1956 .. averaging about 230 events each.
All four years are combined on this map.
Compare eastern and western Texas. A string of sightings shows along the highway US 85 corridor in Colorado, now I-25. Activity remains along US 99, now I-5 parallel to the West Coast. Arizona finally shows activity to rival New Mexico.
Sightings spring up in sparely populated parts of Minnesota and the Dakotas. Indiana and Ohio and New England remain fairly busy.
Geographically, sightings are more evenly distributed than in the major wave years.