See Where Michigan Ranks On A List Of States With The Most UFO Sightings

The ongoing debate on whether aliens are real or not still has yet to be settled. Until then, the alien spaceships we spot in the sky will continue to be known as "unidentified flying objects" (UFOs).

If you've ever wondered how many UFO sightings have been reported in your state, Stacker looked at data from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) and compiled a list ranking which states have the most and least UFO sightings.

According to the report, the first recorded UFO sighting was in the 1600s, and the first documented image of a UFO was in the 1800s.

"The first documented image of a UFO was captured in 1870 on the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire. More sightings were reported at Mount Rainier in Washington in 1947, and of course several in Roswell, New Mexico. Since then, countless numbers of unusual shapes in the sky—and their supposed inhabitants—have been exhaustively reported without sufficient explanations beyond the possible existence of extraterrestrial life."

The report adds that since 1974, when the NUFORC was founded, there have been about 90,000 documented UFO sightings, and "almost 95% of those sightings supposedly easily explained away as military tests, weather balloons, or other terrestrial activity."

So, where does Michigan rank among the states with the most UFO sightings?

Michigan was listed at No. 11 with 2,475 UFO sightings.

Here is what Stacker had to say about one famous UFO sighting in Michigan:

"U.S. Air Force Pilot and First Lt. Felix Eugene Moncla Jr. in 1953 was conducting an air defense intercept over Lake Superior near the Soo Locks in Michigan when he—and his plane—disappeared. In what is today known as the Kinross Incident (Moncla was on temporary assignment at Kinross Air Force Base), Air Defense Command radar found a UFO traveling 500 miles per hour in the airspace. Moncla took off in an F-89C all-weather jet interceptor after the craft, but as his radar blip connected with the UFO's, communication went dark in what was assumed to be a crash. Moncla and his plane have never been located; the U.S. Air Force claimed Moncla crashed into a Royal Canadian Air Force (FCAF) vessel. The pilot of that supposed craft claimed to have not seen nor been aware of an intercepting plane; and the RCAF in multiple instances denied any incidents in the air on that day."

To see the full report, click here.