A UFO hotspot in the UK has been exposed, with the realities of several calls to police revealed.
Essex – not normally known for being a hub for alien encounters – has seen hundreds of reports of UFOs since 2018. And thanks to a Freedom of Information request to Essex Police, a myriad of wild reports have been made available to the public, exposing some of rather odd sightings locals claim to have seen across a five year period.
According to the force, results are gathered from the STORM incident recording system where the “Final Call Type” is recorded as being “ UFO ”. Incidents took place in areas such as Saffron Walden, Colchester . . . and even the tiny civil parish of Ongar.
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One report from the latter states: “Inft (informant) states that has just seen around 30/40 lights in convoy flying across the sky. Inft states that there was about 10 to start with in an exact line together and then another group of 10-12 then another 10-20 coming along every few mins.
“Inft states there were no plane flying lights and were going at the same speed on the same track. Inft states they were coming from west to east.”
And in Rochford, one informant was very spooked by what appeared to be some kind of “flying metal structure”.
They said: “In the garden which backs onto a woods, the caller looked up and saw a metal structure which looked like a long oblong bird. When the caller glanced at it, it disappeared, it didn’t travel in a direction, to start with it was very low level and flying very fast.
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“The caller states that it would not have been a bird as they live in a village this type of bird would travel in groups and they would not be in the area the caller was in at this time of night.”
Even Ryanair got in on the act, as one pilot calling from Hertfordshire was spooked by what they saw tailing their plane at around 4,000ft in the air.
“Ryanair was climbing out from Stansted Airport and was a height of 4000ft and just over the St Elizabeth Centre. The pilot saw an object which describes as ‘black’ which passed within 20 metres of the aircraft.
“The plane was travelling at 230mph and the object was travelling from north to south. They have said that it was possibly a drone but the drone monitoring equipment at the airport has not picked it up.”
Stay tuned for more wild calls from UFO-loving Essex coming to the Daily Star soon.
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