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Close Encounters of the Data Kind: Exploring UFO Sightings - Chris DeMars

𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐟𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐱 2026 Born and raised in Detroit, Chris is a Senior Developer Advocate at TuxCare, where he works on securing end-of-life software like legacy Angular, Python, and .NET systems. In this session, he blends his love for spooky phenomena with modern web development to explore real-world UFO and UAP sighting data. 👽 Talk Overview Close Encounters of the Data Kind: Exploring UFO Sightings with MongoDB and Next.js This talk starts with a brief (and entertaining) history of famous UFO encounters — including: ● The Roswell Incident ● The Betty and Barney Hill abduction ● The Dexter UFO sightings ● The iconic Phoenix Lights From there, Chris dives into the tech stack used to build a searchable UFO sightings dashboard, showing how to go from raw data to a deployed web application. 🛠 Tech Stack Covered ● Next.js – React framework with server components and optimizations ● MongoDB – Flexible, scalable document database ● MongoDB Atlas – Cloud-hosted MongoDB ● MongoDB Compass – Visual data exploration and querying ● Netlify – Build and deploy modern web apps ● Material UI – Styling and UI components Chris walks through: ● Setting up a Next.js project ● Connecting MongoDB data using Atlas and Compass ● Structuring data for UFO encounters and sightings ● Filtering and searching encounters by location and type ● Deploying the app with Netlify ● Building a simple, functional UI without custom CSS 🧠 Why This Talk Is Different This isn’t just another CRUD demo. It’s a playful but practical example of: ● Turning real-world datasets into usable products ● Building dashboards with modern React tooling ● Learning full-stack concepts through storytelling ● Making tech talks fun, memorable, and approachable Whether you’re here for the aliens, the code, or both — this talk delivers. 🛸 Believe in Bigfoot. Ship to production.