Map reveals UK’s five ‘UFO hotspots’ as investigator lifts lid on wildest ‘alien’ encounters – how does your town fare?
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A UFO expert has lifted the lid on some of his wildest encounters as we reveal the top five hotspots in the UK. Nick Pope, who previously ran the British Government’s UFO Project, spoke about his experiences with extraterrestrial life in an exclusive chat with The Sun.
For over two decades, Nick worked as a civilian employee at the MoD, with his most prominent role beginning in the early 1990s, where he ran the department's UFO program. Nick was at the helm of the project, an initiative that monitored and investigated reports of unidentified flying objects to assess their potential impact on national security and aviation safety.
Although the program was never formally named, it was often referred to as the “UFO desk” or “UFO program” by a number of media outlets. When looking at the distribution of these sightings across the UK, Nick and his team discovered that the hotspots were not necessarily the rural or remote locations that many assumed.
Nick told The Sun: “It’s interesting because when we mapped out the UFO sightings, they didn’t necessarily occur in remote, rural areas. “The hotspots were often London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, and Glasgow – all the major cities and urban areas.
"The reason for this is simple - the more people there are in an area, the more likely someone is to spot something unusual in the sky.”. These cities, with their dense populations, provided more potential witnesses. It meant that if something strange appeared in the sky, the chances of someone witnessing it were far higher.