There was a rise in the number of North Americans who looked up into the sky in 2019 and found something that didn’t look like a bird or a plane.
2019年，北美有越来越多的人仰望天空，发现了不像鸟或飞机的东西。
The National UFO Reporting Center, which tracks calls and messages from people around the U.S. and Canada about strange sightings in the sky, reported that it received 5,971 sightings in 2019 -- a jump from 3,395 in 2018.
美国国家不明飞行物报告中心负责追踪美国和加拿大各地的人们关于在天空中发现奇怪飞行物的电话和信息。该中心报告称，2019年共收到5971份报告——远高于2018年的3395份。
Peter Davenport, who runs the independent organization that's based in Davenport, Washington, said he couldn’t explain why more people called about seeing flashing white lights, fireballs, disc-shaped objects or other oddities in 2019.
总部设在华盛顿达文波特的独立组织负责人彼得·达文波特说，他无法解释为什么2019年有更多的人打电话来，说看到闪烁的白光、火球、圆盘状物体或其他奇怪的东西。
"One of the mysteries of ufology is there is a fluctuation in the number of reports over the years," he told us in a phone interview.
“他在接受电话采访时告诉我们:“不明飞行物学的一个神秘之处在于，这些年来报告的数量一直在波动。”
"Some years it’s been low, but it’s gotten higher recently."
“几年来一直很低，但最近有所上升。”
California led the country last year with the most number of UFO observations to the site: 485 in total, an increase of 182 sightings from 2018.
去年，加州是美国UFO观测次数最多的地区，共有485次，比2018年增加了182次。
Florida came in second with 385 sightings in 2019, which was 156 more reports than in 2018, according to UFO Reporting Center data.
据不明飞行物报告中心的数据显示，佛罗里达在2019年以385起目击事件位居第二，比2018年多156起。
Washington came in third with 222 reports last year, which represented an increase of 51 from 2018, according to the site.
华盛顿去年以222份报告位居第三，比2018年增加了51份。
Davenport’s site takes reports from callers and online submissions, many of which are anonymous, and lists them with as much detail as possible.
达文波特的网站收集来电者和网上提交的报告，其中许多是匿名的，并尽可能详细地把它们列出来。
For example, on April 15, a man and his girlfriend reported they saw a formation in the sky near Bakersfield, California.
例如，4月15日，一名男子和他的女朋友报告说，他们在加州贝克斯菲尔德附近的天空中看到了一个编队。
"We witnessed 3 unidentified objects, one in middle being the larger escorted by two other smaller unidentified objects one to the left and one on the right having no lights and no sound and dark colored objects heading southeast traveling at an unknown speed and disappeared into the clouds beyond sight," the report said.
“我们目击了三个不明飞行物，中间那个更大，伴随一左一右另外两个更小的物体，它们不发光，也没有声音是颜色较暗的物体，朝东南方以未知的速度飞行，后来进入了云层看不到了，”报告称。
Davenport said he does not investigate any of the claims he collects and noted that some of the sightings may have been the same object that was seen by multiple people.
达文波特说，他对自己收集到的任何说法都不进行调查，并指出，其中一些目击事件可能是多人看到的同一件物体。
Rick Fienberg, a spokesman for the American Astronomical Society, emphasized that the "u" in UFO stands for unidentified, and many people are unaware of astronomical goings on in space on any given day.
美国天文学会的发言人里克·芬伯格强调说，UFO中的“u”代表“不明身份的”，很多人并不知道太空中每天发生的天文现象。
For instance, Jupiter and Venus were more visible to Earth last year and they can stand out in the night sky, according to Fienberg.
例如，根据芬伯格的说法，木星和金星去年在地球上更容易看到，而且它们在夜空中也很显眼。
He also noted that Space X launched 180 new satellites into space last year, and those devices have lit up the night skies.
他还指出，Space X去年向太空发射了180颗新卫星，这些设备点亮了夜空。
"If you’re not keeping up with the news and not familiar with the skyline, you might mistakenly see an unidentified flying object. It may be unidentified to you, but known to others," Fienberg said.
“如果你不关注新闻，不熟悉天际线，你可能会误以为一个不明飞行物。这对你来说是不明飞行物，对别人来说却并非如此。”芬伯格说道。
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