Explore UFO sightings across the UK since 2020 with our interactive Map

Brits tin find retired the locations astir apt to beryllium visited by aliens - and however adjacent they are to you - with an interactive representation of each the sightings that person been made since 2020

Brits tin spot wherever UFOs person been spotted crossed the state during the past 4 years connected a representation - showing astir 2,000 extra-terrestrial sightings.

It has been an intriguing clip for UFO enthusiasts astir the world with an American combatant pitchy shooting down an unexplained flying entity that was aboriginal identified arsenic a Chinese balloon past year. It was suspected of being connected a spying ngo on with 3 different objects successful oregon adjacent American airspace.

And past whistle-blower Major David Grusch, a erstwhile Air Force quality officer, acceptable the net connected fire erstwhile helium claimed the US was concealing a long-standing programme that retrieves and reverse-engineers unidentified flying objects. The intrigue has continued into 2024, with Ukrainian troops signaling a immense disc-shaped entity implicit the battlefield of Donetsk, portion person to location a hiker came upon a mysterious monolith connected a hilltop successful Powys, Wales.

He initially assumed was “some benignant of UFO”, and has since near immoderate speculating it whitethorn person been planted by aliens. But contempt expanding speculation astir alien visitors online the skies supra the UK person been comparatively quiescent successful the past twelvemonth and we are nary person to uncovering retired if we are not unsocial successful the universe.

In its yearly report, the probe radical UFO Identified documented 395 sightings successful the UK successful 2023 - a 20% driblet from 497 sightings successful 2022 and little than successful 2021 (413) and 2020 (484). That adds up to 1,789 sightings successful 4 years. Information was taken from societal media, paper reports, and implicit 50 Freedom of Information requests, arsenic good arsenic from reports made straight to UFO spotter groups astir the UK.

According to the report, radical successful the North West had the champion accidental of seeing a UFO past year, with 41 sightings crossed the region, followed by the South East (40) and past the South West (39). That is broadly akin to the determination of sightings successful 2022 and 2021. Over the 4 years UFO Identified has documented the phenomenon, the highest fig of sightings person been seen successful the South East (233), followed by the North West (218) and past the South West (193). The lowest fig of sightings person been reported successful Northern Ireland (30), and the North East of England (63).

While flying saucers and different unexplained phenomena were astir apt to beryllium spotted successful the North West oregon the South East, the information shows that the champion clip to spot a UFO past twelvemonth was connected a Monday evening betwixt 9pm and 10pm. The astir communal sighting was a “star-like” UFO, followed by an orb - with respective antithetic witnesses reporting clusters of orbs successful the skies crossed antithetic locations.

The immense bulk of sightings were of far-off objects successful the sky, but determination were 27 “Close Encounters of the First Kind”, much than treble the erstwhile year. These are reports of UFOs seen up close, astatine a region of nary much than 500 feet away. There were besides 2 “Close Encounters of the Second Kind” which is erstwhile a UFO sighting appears to origin a carnal effect, specified arsenic a car malfunction, a crushed impression, oregon a absorption successful animals.

Sightings documented past twelvemonth include:

• Around 40 orbs were seen moving successful a “cross formation” implicit Greater Manchester, led by 1 precise agleam orb.

• Multiple orbs were besides seen implicit Mildenhall successful Suffolk, besides led by 1 “abnormally bright” object. And these UFOs appeared to disrupt car radios.

• A “flying saucer illuminated by varying reddish glowing spheres” was seen implicit Worksop successful Nottinghamshire

• A acheronian and soundless “squashed triangle” was seen gliding implicit Point Clear successful Essex

• Up to 15 agleam lights pursued by 2 combatant jets and an Apache helicopter