The North West was the part of the UK with the most reported sightings last year
In the past four years there have been close to 2,000 reports of UFOs spotted over the UK. Our interactive map shows how many UFO sightings were reported across Merseyside in that time. In its annual report, the research group UFO Identified documented 395 sightings in the UK in 2023 which is a 20% drop from 497 sightings in 2022. In 2021 there were 413 alleged sightings and 2020 had 484 sightings. That adds up to 1,789 sightings in four years.
The most common sighting was a “star-like” UFO, followed by an orb - with several different witnesses reporting clusters of orbs in the skies across different locations. The vast majority of sightings were of far-off objects in the sky but there were 27 “Close Encounters of the First Kind”, more than double the previous year.
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