December 1987: Philip Spencer (pseudonym), a retired policeman, took a picture on Ilkley Moor, which is claimed [ by whom?] to be of an alien creature, and then saw a white-coloured craft leaving the area. The object in the photograph was examined by Kodak Laboratories at Hemel Hempstead and they decided that the object was not superimposed. This was one of the few British close encounters of the third kind. Under hypnosis he claimed to have been abducted and medically examined. [65] According to his statement: "The craft came close enough for me to see that it was definitely metallic and had several points of diffused light on its underside, inside a darker coloured rim." October 1953: Two BEA pilots flying from London to Paris see a saucer object [14] [15] over the English Channel for thirty minutes in a Airspeed Ambassador ( Elizabethan); former RAF pilot Captain Peter Fletcher, of Putney, had taken off at 09:00 from London Airport [16]

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Another encounter relayed by Halliday in the same book occurred at a little after 10 pm on the 16 th of August 1992 in Bathgate. On the night in question, Mr. and Mrs. Tait saw an “intense green light” moving across the sky from the home. The light appeared to be on a downward trajectory and appeared to crash into the ground somewhere beyond the horizon. October 1967: 54-year-old Mr Angus Brooks, a former BOAC administrator from Owermoigne in Dorset, was walking at 11:25 on Moigns Down near Holworth, close to the Dorset coast with his two dogs in a force 8 gale and took shelter in a hollow. He then saw a circular translucent craft with a "girder" at the front and three pointing to the rear. The "girders" rearranged to form a cross shape around the central 25ft-diameter disc and then began to spin. Twenty-two minutes later, the "girders" returned to their original position and the craft sped off in a northeast direction. [44] We have also looked at the 1996 UFO wave which took place in the Falkirk region of the country. Indeed, many UFO researchers believe Falkirk – which is only several miles from Grangemouth – to be part of a triangular region of increased activity. It is perhaps interesting to note that one of the other points of this triangle is Bonnybridge. But this was a time when just about everyone had a video camera and the proof of these craft hovering over people’s homes was caught on tape making it somewhat harder to dispute. Local Politician Reacts

August 1950: A 50ft-diameter disc UFO is seen over the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) at 11:27 by an experienced pilot F/Lt Hubbard. He claimed to see another similar object on 5 September 1950 at 16:09. [ citation needed] Readers call in on Dorito UFO". Express & Star. Archived from the original on 28 February 2010 . Retrieved 29 October 2009. A sighting that occurred the following year is worthy of our consideration here. Not least as it featured multiple witnesses of a strange object within the parameters of the alleged triangle mentioned above. Ridpath, Ian. "Devon Flying Cross UFO of 1967 – Ian Ridpath". www.ianridpath.com . Retrieved 5 April 2018.

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Not a day would go by without another UFO sighting being reported to local police departments. Unfortunately, there really wasn’t much the police could do. They were just as mystified as to the people making the reports. Halliday had also uncovered another sighting on the same evening, this time from 22-year-old Nicholas Reid from nearby Broxburn. He also spoke to the investigator of a “stream of green light” that was traveling downward toward the ground. Like the Taits, Reid also believed he was witnessing a plane crash, and also prepared himself for the impact – an impact which seemingly never came. The MoD responded that it was " satisfied that there is no evidence that the United Kingdom's airspace might have been compromised by hostile or unauthorised foreign military activity" and that it had "limited interest in UFOs". March 1992: Isabella Sloggett, and her daughter Carol, were walking towards Bonnybridge and saw a blue light hovering above the road in front of them. A UFO landed, and a door on the craft opened. [ citation needed] Veteran UFO investigator and author, Malcolm Robinson would view the footage. He would state that he had ruled out the object being nothing more than Chinese lanterns, that the “characteristics and the length of time that it remained in the air is quite unusual”. He would ultimately state that while the footage was “very interesting” it would take a “full investigation before drawing any conclusions”.Some researchers have suggested that rather than being an extraterrestrial craft, the object was actually a top-secret US aircraft named Aurora, something that the United States government denies. Whatever the object was, that the military had an interest in it, as shown by the declassified files. Furthermore, as we will explore later, there is perhaps a connection to be made with the alleged Falkirk Triangle, an area of Scotland that Grangemouth sits within. And an area that is seemingly home to increased UFO activity, as well as a mountain of other paranormal encounters. Indeed, it is not a reach to say the region is one of the most intriguing sections of land in the world. Vapour trails, bright lights and a mysterious balloon". Torquay Herald. 1 June 2001. Archived from the original on 28 July 2014 . Retrieved 25 July 2014. Booth, Billy. "1974-Wales UFO Crash". About.com. Archived from the original on 26 June 2009 . Retrieved 29 October 2009. Travelling along the A70 near Harperrig Reservoir in West Lothian on August 17, 1992, Garry Wood and Colin Wright saw a two-tiered, disc-shaped object above the road.