Ufo Sightings Python Library
From the CORGIS Dataset Project
By Sam Donald Version 1.0.0, created 10/28/2022 Tags: UFO, Sightings
Overview
This data includes >80,000 recorded UFO “sightings” around the world, including the UFO shape, lat/long and state/country of where the sighting occurred, duration of the “event” and the data_time when it occurred.
https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/2e9bd5a67e09b14d01f616b00f7f7e0931515d24/data/2019/2019-06-25
Explore Structure
Each row represents A UFO sighting report .
Explore ufo sightings data
Index Type Example Value
0
dict
{
1 dict (same structure)
2 dict (same structure)
... ... ...
Key Type Example Value Description
"Location"
dict
{
"Data"
dict
{
"Dates"
dict
{
"Date"
dict
{
Key Type Example Value Description
"City"
str
"anchor point"
City or area of sighting
"State"
str
"AK"
state/region of sighting
"Country"
str
"US"
Country of sighting
"Coordinates"
dict
{
Key Type Example Value Description
"Shape"
str
"disk"
UFO Shape
"Encounter duration"
float
300.0
Encounter length in seconds
"Description excerpt"
str
"Large UFO over Mt. ILIAMNA Alaska. ((NUFORC Note: Possible contrail behind a high-altitude jet?? PD))"
Description of encounter
Key Type Example Value Description
"Latitude "
float
59.7766667
Latitude
"Longitude "
float
-151.8313889
Longitude
Key Type Example Value Description
"Sighted"
dict
{
"Documented"
dict
{
Key Type Example Value Description
"Year"
int
2005
Year of sighting
"Month"
int
5
Month of sighting
"Hour"
int
18
Hour of sighting
"Minute"
int
30
Minute of sighting
Key Type Example Value Description
"Sighted"
dict
{
Key Type Example Value Description
"Day"
int
24
Day of sighting
Key Type Example Value Description
"Year"
int
2005
Year of Documentation
"Month"
int
5
Month of Documentation
"Day"
int
28
Day of Documentation
Downloads
Download all of the following files.
ufo_sightings.py ufo_sightings.data
Usage
import ufo_sightings
sighting = ufo_sightings . get_sighting ()
Documentation
get_sighting() Returns a list of dictionaries representing sighting.
