Ever dreamed of whiling away long summer nights on a wild road trip across the UK on the hunt for aliens? If that sounds like you then look no further because the perfect route has been mapped out for you
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Brits hungry for a sighting of little green men have been provided with a list of hotspots to join the dots between for the perfect UFO road trip.
A recent Freedom of Information request found that there were 500 reported sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena in the UK last year.
And it is information like that that keeps Brit alien hunters hungry for that ever-elusive confirmed first contact.
Now enthusiasts have been given the chance to take to the road, jumping from hotspot to hotspot in a bid to maximise their chances of coming face to… er, oxygen-sensory intake dome (?)… with an alien.
Be warned though, you might need to take more than a long weekend off work to complete this as it’s over 1,000 miles long.
The route has been devised by car rental outfit Stressfreecarrental.com, which reckons you should start in Devon, where in May of this year a dog walker came across a UFO zipping along the coast at Maidencombe Beach.
From here you’ll want to head up to Suffolk, where one of the most famous sightings in the UK was recorded: The 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident.
Back and in the car and it’s time to head west and into Wales’s Pembrokeshire, the scene of the Broad Haven Primary School sighting where a group of kids saw something they claimed was out of this world – some even said they saw a figure in a silver suit.
It’s then five hours and 10 minutes in the car to your next stop – Leeds – where in June 2022 there were two sightings of black triangles hovering in the sky.
It’s then a relatively short trip north-west up the A65 for 45 minutes to Ilkley Moor, where one poor ex-copper claimed to have taken two pictures of the aliens that abducted him.
To Edinburgh next, where in 1992 two local chaps said they were abducted on the A70 – the Ministry of Defence was said to be looking into it.
Some 18% of locals here claim they’ve come into contact with aliens, National Geographic says.
Next on the list is one of the most famous sightings of all time. You’ll need to rev up the Quattro and motor over to Perthshire, where the Calvine photograph was taken.
Then it’s either ditch the wheels and hop on a plane or board the Stena line for a quick crossing over to Northern Ireland to head to Belfast, where a dog walker last year caught a UFO up in the skies above them.
A spokesperson from Stressfreecarrental.com said: “For anyone interested in UFOs, now is the perfect time to investigate these unsolved mysteries which continue to baffle experts.
“Findings from the NASA public meeting show it’s more likely than ever aliens do really exist.
“This is the ideal summer road trip across the UK, which will allow tourists to visit several stunning locations including Edinburgh and Suffolk, whilst also giving tourists the opportunity to explore the places where aliens may have visited from outer space.
“Drivers will head to the sites of some of the most significant UFO sightings ever recorded, including where the Ickley Moors incident allegedly occurred in Yorkshire and the Broad Haven Primary School sightings in Pembrokeshire.”
Previously classified documents, sealed for 61 years, have been revealed to show the ufo hotspots in the UK.
In 2009, which was when the RAF stopped collecting records, London was at the top of the list with 54 sightings.
The discoveries were reported by air traffic control employees, pilots, police officers and journalists.
Here are the top 20 areas for UFO sightings in the UK with London at the top and the Midlands a major hotspot with over 109 sightings
An apparent UFO sighting above Stonehenge in 2015. There have been 15 sightings in Wiltshire
A 2017 alleged UFO sighting in Warminster, a town in western Wiltshire. The region saw the 11th most UFO sightings in the UK from 2009
TOP 20 UFO HOTSPOTS
Sightings in 2009 in the UK
1. London – 54
2. Kent – 30
3. Lancashire – 24
4. Derbyshire – 22
5. Essex – 22
6. Stafford – 19
7. Swansea – 18
8. Warwickshire – 17
9. Surrey – 16
10. Norfolk – 15
11. Wiltshire – 15
12. Yorkshire – 15
13. East Sussex – 14
14. Devon – 13
15. Lincolnshire – 13
16. Hertfordshire – 12
17. Northamptonshire – 12
18. West Sussex – 12
19. West Yorkshire – 12
20. Cornwall – 11
Kent is second with 30 sightings in the same year, as Lancashire (24), Derbyshire (22) and Essex (22) make up the top five.
The midlands is a major hotspot with over 109 sightings as counties Warwickshire (17) and Lincolnshire (13) make the top 15 along with Derbyshire.
An incredible 626 sightings were collected in 2009 alone across the UK.
If you are struggling for things to do during the coronavirus lockdown, the best time to spot a UFO, according to the research by Fresh Student Living, is between 8pm and midnight.
Between 10 and 11pm is the sweet spot, with almost 100 sightings.
Until recently, the UK government had some serious manpower behind UFO sightings.
For years, the RAF was responsible for recording public reports and submitting them to the National Archives.
Eventually, in true X-Files style, the UFO wing of the RAF was shut down after higher-ups concluded that in 50 years, they had found no evidence of a ‘potential threat’.
According to a 2020 YouGov survey, one in five Brits admitted that it’s likely that aliens currently live on Earth, whereas 65% say it’s not likely and 15% are undecided.
It’s not only in the UK that UFO’s have been spotted.
The Pentagon in the USA released three videos last week taken by US Navy pilots that reportedly show ‘unexplained aerial phenomena’.
The footage that had been previously acknowledged as real by the Navy, capture what pilots recorded on their video sensors during training flights in 2004 and 2015.
Two of the clips were first published in 2017 by the New York Times and the third by the To The Stars Academy in 2018 – a group that specializes in unexplained phenomenon and was founded by Blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge.