Shropshire is one of the country’s UFO hotspots with more than 20 sightings in the county over the last 40-odd years, it was revealed today.
The research, conducted by Virgin Media, saw the county achieve fourth place for the most UFO sightings behind West Yorkshire with 34 sightings, Nottinghamshire with 29, and Lancashire with 23.
Our map shows a selection of UFO sightings over Shropshire. The map may take a few moments to load. Click on the UFO icons to see details about each siting. Use the ‘plus’ button to scroll in and the ‘minus’ button to scroll back out. Clicking “View Larger Map” above will allow you to scroll and read comments more easily.
The Virgin Media Files were compiled from data going back to 1961 and highlights 22 unexplained sightings in Shropshire alone.
They include a sighting on the A5 towards Telford, where a motorist saw 13 coloured lights in the sky which appeared to be circling an object about 100ft in size.
The research was carried out to mark a month-long Sci-Fi extravaganza on Virgin’s TV on demand service.
Former head of the Government’s UFO project Nick Pope said: “While we currently have no explanation why certain places in the UK are alien hotspots, there are areas where mysterious objects are repeatedly witnessed, so people who want to alien-spot should definitely head to Shropshire.”
Virgin Media has set up an area on its website where people can now share their real life encounters at www.virginmedia.com/ufo
Virgin Media’s James Kydd said: “Sci-Fi is a popular genre with many fans, so it’s great to be able to make the classic shows available for people to enjoy whenever they want.”
8 Comments
Actually, I thought the point of the Virgin Media study was to reveal the number of UNSOLVED sightings. Therefore, there will have been many more than 20-odd sightings in Shropshire since 1961, it’s just that all but those 20-odd were explained after investigation.
there were also 50 sightings of the moon being in a bucket.
Are there any military bases in the area?
Great maps. Who created them?
i currently live in selby which had a big surge in ufo’s only 2& half years ago.
soon i will be moveing to shropshire, back to where i once lived - this recent revalation about the “shropshire hotspot for ufo’s” is something i was unaware of - abit of a coincidence all the same1.
There’s been sightings of a few mysterious objects flying over the STFC ground in Shrewsbury…but these may have been airborne pigs! Significantly less sightings since the departure of Gary Peters, but still some can be seen from time to time
Hi
I think UFO sighting are increasing every corner of the world.Here in Wisconsin usa too we have UFO sighting almost every week.
Two years ago, I saw something that looked like a blimp, travelling from west to east. It had an orange band around it. It made no noise and I estimate, it was travelling at about 500 Mph. Perhaps the bung came out!
Roger
Telford Shropshire