Bonnybridge is quite an unremarkable village in Scotland, a settlement with a population of just 6,000, its closest large town that of Falkirk.

Its high street could be found anywhere in Britain, complete with an Indian restaurant, a Chinese takeaway, a Dominos, a Tesco Express and a Co-op.

There truly isn’t anything overtly special about Bonnybridge apart from the fact that it averages around 300 UFO sightings every year.

This is more than anywhere else on the planet and has led to the area being referred to as ‘The Falkirk Triangle’, a nod to the ever-mysterious Bermuda Triangle thousands of miles away in the North Atlantic Ocean.

The widespread sightings began in the 1990s, and ever since, Bonnybridge has been plagued by a fear of the unknown.

In 1992, James Walker, a local businessman, stopped his car on a country road after spotting an object that resembled a shining star blocking his way but soon sped off.

A media frenzy ensued, and Bonnybridge was flooded with TV crews from around the country filming news pieces and documentaries.

Another sighting came just a few months later when the Sloggett family were out for an evening walk from Hallglen to Bonnybridge.

Steven Sloggett, the father, pointed out a “blue basketball-sized light” in the sky that was making a strange noise, and which quickly “swooped down and landed in a nearby field”, after which the door to the craft is said to have opened.

Malcolm Robinson, a paranormal researcher co-authoring a book about Bonnybridge, told The Mirror about the spine-tingling encounter: “As the family ran at a furious pace down the road, a blinding intense light shone out at them through a grouped range of trees.”

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