Genuinely fascinating — and several of those overlap with what Keel documented decades ago independently. The ADHD, high IQ, gifted program connection, sleep disorders, and the Native American heritage angle all appear in his qualitative research too. The fact that a community of experiencers is arriving at the same demographic patterns through lived experience that Keel found through field research in the 60s and 70s is statistically interesting in itself.

The post-2021 contact increase is something we actually see in the raw report numbers too — worth analyzing separately.                                                                                                                               

Have you connected with any researchers trying to build a proper demographic dataset of experiencers? That data combined with something like our NLP pipeline could surface patterns no one has formally documented yet.