Are we alone in the universe… or do aliens really exist?

A UFO, or an unidentified flying object, is described as “a mysterious object seen in the sky for which it is claimed no orthodox scientific explanation can be found, often supposed to be a vehicle carrying extraterrestrials.”

According to an interactive map, thousands of UFO reports have been made over the years- including some in our county of Lancashire.

UFO Stalker allows you to search for any previous UFO sightings- and also report some for yourself.

Lancashire Telegraph: (Credit: UFO Stalker)(Credit: UFO Stalker)

In total, over 111,270 potential UFO sightings have been reported to the map with 348 in the last month alone.

Using the map, we have tracked down some of the reports made in the Blackburn area- one person even reported an actual alien encounter.

Can they be explained away or are they really evidence of something other-worldly?

17/03/2021

“Three of us are working away from home. We got to the hotel and walked to get food from services on m62 in Blackburn.

“Walking back I thought I spotted a meteor, traveling west to east and coloured bright orange.

“It was travelling faster than any airliner but was visible for about 30 seconds to one minute. We thought it a meteorite, then it faded, abruptly turned 90 degrees to the right, then again turned 90 degrees to the left on its original direction.

“None of us have ever witnessed a UFO before, and the preceding conversation left us questioning what it could have been.

“We are all researchers, me in electrical/electronic systems and my colleagues in polymers and physics.

“All of us have witnessed meteors before but never any with this unusual flight path.”

06/04/2015

“This is not a UFO sighting- but a strange occurrence I witnessed recently.

“I was just leaving my kitchen when I felt I had a sense of being observed or scanned.

“I turned my head andIi saw the most weird creature I have ever seen. It was only about 1.5",very small. My first instinct was to stamp on it with my shoe, which I tried to do.

“At the exact same time I lifted my shoe the creature knew what I was going to do and it accelerated forward and ran under my freezer.

“I got a good look at it- its bottom half was black or dark blue and its equally sized top half was pink-like flesh.

“It looked like it was wearing trousers… it had four legs on the dark half with feet like hooves shape and four arms.”

09/06/2015

“At first I thought it was an airplane but then I saw that the lights kept changing colour and that it was always moving around the same spot.

“I opened my window to see if I could hear any noise but there was nothing.

“The objects were flying at treetop level at a minimum to around 200ft in the air, my dad then pointed out that there were two of them and they were always emitting different colours but flying near each other.

“They looked like they had wings that rapidly moved as they flew, as I went to record it on my phone one the objects flew up really high and stayed there for around 45 seconds, it felt as though it was watching me recording it.”

01/11/2009

“We observed two round red lights moving close to each other at the same speed in the same direction.”

“My son was absolutely amazed, as was I. Light was definitely too big to be a light on any normal aircraft/helicopter.

“There was no noise that we could hear and no vapour trail. after they had disappeared we talked to each other about it and rationalised it all and we are convinced they were UFOs.”

03/03/2011

“A bright oval shaped object appeared from the west over the houses at the side of my house… It was as bright as a house light bulb and easy to look at.

“It was about 300 to 500ft directly above us and approximately 20 to 30ft wide 60 to 70ft long.

“It was a perfect oval shape and we could see it very clearly it lasted about two and a half minutes.”

14/09/2008

We observed two spherical objects glowing brilliant burnt orange, very visible, moving independently and at different heights. Observed for seven minutes max”

20/07/2018

“Myself and friend saw a UFO fly west-east over Blackburn.

It was very bright- so bright could not see object other than bright circular white light.

“Made no noise.”