Percentages of Witness Professions in the Entire Sample - This shows the overall dominance of specific professions or roles in the overall sample. The clear predominance lies in aviation personnel, housewives, and young people[endnote 1]. Misc professions are usually only one witness per profession, and cannot be counted as a block.[endnote 2]

Proportions By Profession - This shows which types of observations[endnote 3] are prevalent in each profession. Most of the aviation and maritime sightings are RV (but the maritime is skewed by a single (?) case). Military reports tend to be DD. Scientists do not have any close encounters in the sample. Most sightings from young people, housewives, businesspeople, and technical / professionals are close encounters, and especially CE-IIs.

Proportions by Classification - This shows what professions contribute which proportions of each type of report. The majority of NL reports are from aviation personnel and young people. The majority of DD reports are from aviation, military, and young people. RV cases are from aviation and maritime personnel, with some military and some unknown. CE-I are largely from security personnel (i.e. police), housewives, and young people. CE-II cases, which have the largest numbers of witnesses, are contributed by housewives, young people, businesspeople, technical / professional personnel, and a cross section of misc professions.

There are several clear implications from these statistics:

• Radar / visual reports naturally come largely from aviation and maritime personnel.
• Scientists tend not to report Close Encounters.
• Other than these exceptions, reports of UFOs come from all demographic categories.
• As the strangeness and proximity of the object increases, the representation of technical personnel tends to return to the actual level of representation of such personnel in the population at large.

Footnotes

1. The significant presence of housewives may be due to their roles putting them in positions to observe the sky (outdoor work, hanging wash, looking after children and pets), and also because housewives are often the first people notified of sightings by children. Young people, of course, tend to spend more time outdoors than adults.

2. College student, Secretary / Clerk, Cabinetmaker, Beekeeper, Service station attendants,Resort employees and family members, Butcher, Shop man, Farmer/farmhand, Prospectors, Laborer, Roofer, Painter, Truck driver, Waitress, Hairdresser

3. NL - Nocturnal Light, DD- Daylight Disc, RV - Radar / Visual, CE-I - close encounter, no effects, CE-II - close encounter physical or medical effects, CE-III - beings observed in conjunction with close encounter.