I think that’s a good point. However, Madagascar stood out to me since it looks like there’s no sightings at all, so I did a bit of Googling. It has a population of 27 million. They eat meat, and have a 27% smoking rate (which is above average, but the are a lot of countries with a lot higher rates).
Funniest thing was that I tried to find out if proximity to the US was a factor and I read somewhere that the antipode of the US from Arizona would be the halfway point between Madagascar and the west coast of Australia.
I’m still curious as to why there are so few sightings there. I know nothing about the place other than it’s famous for its unique animals, if I remember correctly. I might do a bit more research to learn more about this island that the UFOs don’t seem to bother with.
here's the only footage i found about ufo in madagascar:
though i think, they don't need ufo sightings because in the "high strangeness"/urban legends departement they have no shortage of stories about encounter with ellusive unkown little humanoids stalking in bush or mpamosavy "demon possessed medusa like witches".
generaly the story goes like this guy or gal is alone in very dark night, ecounter woman with rags and long hair covering face, the woman get naked and screams inhuman noises, the victim get paralysed and drained of energy and is found later the morning laying on the ground dead or shell shocked...
sometimes but rarely the story get more interesting because someone encounter it and instead of getting paralyzed, he actually fight back and beat the sh*t out of it, and turns out its nothing fantastical , its just a very poor soul, a drugged out gal that got into dark magic/vodou like type activity, madagascar has a lots of that.
I also suspected that a lot of theses could also branches out into criminal mafia like activities like organs, blood harvesting of for profits.
During covid, a story that forced blood harvesting of poor unvaxxed peoples was running arround very strong on malagasy social media. There was a lot of documented cases of kids/teenager, found lying here and there, completely shell shocked and blue, like totally drained out of energy. I'm wondering if lots of so called encounter are actually screens for humans criminals activities performed by drugged out people that are into dark magics.
I remember I really got the creeps when i watched the doc about the unexplained disapearance of hunters in american nature, despite that curioulsy I never felt that way when wondering alone in nature in madagascar last time i went there, it felt pretty secure, there's no noteworthy predators for humans and worst fear that could materialize to you is encoutering the "little people" or naked witches.