AS the Pentagon was issuing a report which stated that Unidentified Flying Objects were real but probably not piloted by aliens, a new survey has shown that Glasgow and its environs are places where you are most likely to have an encounter with aliens.
The fact that such encounters in central Scotland tend to happen to people “with drink taken”, as they say in the courts, is neither here nor there. If they are coming to get you and haul you off to a distant galaxy, best not to let it happen in Glasgow.
Over in the United States, the Pentagon’s report into the phenomenon of UFOs concluded that there were 143 incidents of sightings by military pilots that could not be explained in terms of current technology.
Residents near Area 51, where it is claimed that UFOs and their occupants are preserved, have refused to accept the report’s findings – now there’s a surprise.
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Misty Ingram, 40, manager of the Alien Research Centre situated near the compound, told a daily newspaper: “They know full well what is out there, but they refuse to tell us the truth.
“It’s a complete whitewash. They want to feed us information bit by bit, to walk us into the water gradually, so as not to spark hysteria.”
The Pentagon report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence found that many sightings were “clustered around US military bases and testing grounds”.
Yet it denied an extra-terrestrial origin of the items, and hinted at possibly Russian or Chinese involvement, though one ufologist has stated there could be private sector intrigue at work.
The report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) said: “Our analysis of the data supports the construct that if and when individual UAP incidents are resolved they will fall into one of five potential explanatory categories: airborne clutter, natural atmospheric phenomena, US government or US industry developmental programs, foreign adversary systems, and a catchall ‘other’ bin.”
The report continued: “Although most of the UAP described in our dataset probably remain unidentified due to limited data or challenges to collection processing or analysis, we may require additional scientific knowledge to successfully collect on, analyse and characterise some of them.”
In other words, we don’t know what they were, and we’ll probably only know when the aliens tell us.
Meanwhile as we approach World UFO Day on Friday – yes, there really is such a thing – the team at NetVoucherCodes.co.uk has analysed every report of suspicious activity in the sky, to determine the most active spots for out of this world observations.
The team said: “During the last year, there have been almost 200 reports of mysterious floating objects in Great Britain alone.
“First-hand reports tell stories of silhouettes, lights shining down, floating disks in the sky and large crafts in local airspaces.
“Most of the sightings reported have been in London. However, UFO enthusiasts and alien hunters have updated the world on a range of unusual observations, from Airdrie in Scotland, all the way to Plymouth in the south west of England.”
The press release continued breathlessly: “Actual aliens were spotted in Bishopbriggs, south Scotland, back in February 2021 at 3am during one late night.”
Another survey says Glasgow is the top city in Scotland and the third in the UK for UFO and alien observation.
BuzzBingo.com asked 2000 UK adults if they had seen a UFO or had an alien experience, and the results were quite astonishing as the researchers found on average that 18% of those surveyed believed they had experienced a brush with an alternate species – either sensing aliens or seeing flying saucers.
Interestingly, some 22% of people believe there is a government conspiracy to hide outer space activity from the public, of whom 41% said they would like to meet an alien.
Norwich had the most believers with 31%, followed by Newcastle and Birmingham on joint second with 26%, and Glasgow in third place with 25%.
In other words, the survey states that one in four Glaswegians believe they have had a close encounter or sighting of aliens or their spacecraft, most of them taking place at night.
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