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r/ufo

434.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached 6.5K upvotes, which works out to 15 per 1,000 members.

15peak upvotes per 1,000 members
434.1Kmembers
6.5Kbest post
1.3Kmost comments
659posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

28% 19% 19% 18% 8% 8%
Link 28% Image 19% Video 19% Text 18% Question 8% Gallery 8%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Discussion 113 Article 29 Podcast 11 Twitter 4 Local News 3 Mainstream Media 3 George Knapp 3 Post Disclosure World 2 Announcement 2 Interview Notes 2

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

I am Korean, and I think my ancestors may have witnessed UFOs

↑ 6.5K 💬 239 image 2024

Incredible photos of UFOs taken in Brazil, 2011.

↑ 5.7K 💬 650 gallery 2024

105,000+! Y'all in here?

↑ 4.2K 💬 772 image 2023

“The Baptism Of Christ” painting dated 1710.

↑ 3.8K 💬 224 image 2025

UFO and chickens

↑ 3.5K 💬 175 image 2021

NASA is officially offline at the most critical moment in the observation of object 3I/Atlas

↑ 3.2K 💬 477 image 2025

Evidence of alien life could be revealed next month as NASA filmmaker claims 'we've found it'

↑ 2.9K 💬 346 link 2024

Drone scandal explodes as airport is shut and New Jersey senator shares eerie new details: 'It's gone too far'

↑ 2.8K 💬 663 link 2024

Every night

↑ 2.7K 💬 54 image 2024

3I/ATLAS - WTF is going on

↑ 2.7K 💬 899 image 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/ufo, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/ufo have?
r/ufo has about 434.1K members. ViralHunt has tracked 659 of its posts; the biggest reached 6.5K upvotes, which is 15 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/ufo?
"I am Korean, and I think my ancestors may have witnessed UFOs" reached 6.5K upvotes and 239 comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/ufo.
What subreddits are similar to r/ufo?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/ufo?
Of the posts we hold, 28% are link posts and 19% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/ufo?
Across 659 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 14:00 UTC (1.3K avg upvotes), Thursday at 20:00 UTC (1.3K avg upvotes), Monday at 11:00 UTC (1.3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/ufo?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/ufo has 2.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 134 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/ufo, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.