An interactive map shows reported UFO sightings across Merseyside.
Nearly 2,000 UFOs have been spotted over the UK in the last four years – and our map reveals the locations most likely to be visited by aliens.
It has been an interesting time for UFO enthusiasts as just last year American fighter jets shot down an unexplained flying object – which was later identified as a Chinese balloon, suspected to be on a spying mission – as well as three other objects in or near American airspace.
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Then former Air Force intelligence officer turned whistle-blower, Major David Grusch, 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 recording a huge disc-shaped object over the battlefield of Donetsk, while in Britain a hiker came upon a mysterious monolith on a hilltop in Powys, which he initially assumed was “some sort of UFO”, but has since left some speculating it may have been planted by aliens.
In its annual report, the research group UFO Identified documented 395 sightings in the UK in 2023 – a 20% drop from 497 sightings in 2022 and lower than in 2021 (413) and 2020 (484).
That adds up to 1,789 sightings in four years.
Information was taken from social media, newspaper reports, and over 50 Freedom of Information requests, as well as from reports made directly to UFO spotter groups around the UK.
According to the report, people in the North West had the best chance of seeing a UFO last year, with 41 sightings across the region, followed by the South East (40) and then the South West (39).
That is broadly similar to the location of sightings in 2022 and 2021. Over the four years UFO Identified has documented the phenomenon, the highest number of sightings have been seen in the South East (233), followed by the North West (218) and then the South West (193). The lowest number of sightings have been reported in Northern Ireland (30), and the North East of England (63).
You can see the UFO encounters documented where you live using in the last four years using our interactive map.
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