 since January 2021. The spotter website, UFO Identified, noted a total of 957 sightings, including 410 in 2021, 494 in 2022 and 53 as of May 20 this year, with more activity seen above Glasgow than anywhere else. A quarter of all sightings (25%) were of a 'star-like' object or objects, moving across the sky. The next most common sighting was of an unidentified object shaped like an 'orb' (17%), 'sphere', (10%) and 'cylinder' (9%). Ash Ellis, of UFO Identified, believes many more sightings have not been reported. He said: "Despite progress being made in recent years to de-stigmatise the topic, there is still an air of trepidation when approaching the subject as the fear or ridicule is very prevalent. There were almost 500 reported sightings in the UK last year, with likely many times that number going unreported showing that there is a genuine concern around unidentified phenomena being seen across the country." It comes after the US Congress heard from retired Major David Grusch, a former Air Force intelligence officer, about possible evidence of extra-terrestrial contact. In a highly-anticipated testimony, Mr Grusch said the US is concealing a long-standing programme that retrievers and reverse-engineers unidentified flying objects. Although the testimony in Congress has created a media storm, many scientists remain sceptical that the US has secretly found evidence of extra-terrestrial life. Earlier this year, a scientist c){kind=link}
Brits have been spotting UFOs in the skies above at an alarming rate since January 2021 – and an expert claims to know how ‘non-humans’ try to hide to go undetected
Nearly 1,000 UFO sightings have been recorded across the UK in the last two-and-a-half years – which has been revealed after an expert claimed aliens could be hiding in dark spots just outside our solar system to avoid detection.
An interactive map documents the full list of areas with the most and least amounts of unidentified aerial phenomena (the official term used instead of UFO) since January 2021.
The spotter website, UFO Identified, noted a total of 957 sightings, including 410 in 2021, 494 in 2022 and 53 as of May 20 this year, with more activity seen above Glasgow than anywhere else.
A quarter of all sightings (25%) were of a ‘star-like’ object or objects, moving across the sky. The next most common sighting was of an unidentified object shaped like an ‘orb’ (17%), ‘sphere’, (10%) and ‘cylinder’ (9%).