Derbyshire named as UFO hotspot in new report

Fresh Student Living has released a new list – based on Freedom of Information results from the RAF – of the UK areas with the most reports of flying saucers.

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In the list of 56 locations, Derbyshire comes in at number four – with 22 UFO sightings over a 12-month period. London tops the list with 54 reports.

Derbyshire has a long history of mysterious goings-on in the sky.

Perhaps the most famous UFO report in the county came in 2000 when Sharon Rowlands used her camcorder to film a huge craft above her house one October night.

Her video was classed by some alien experts as ‘one of the most important pieces of footage ever taken’ and Sharon reportedly sold it to an American producer for £20,000.

As far as we are aware, no documentary or film has been aired as of yet.

She told reporters: “It resembled a giant disc with a bite taken out of the bottom.

“As it hovered over the woods, it seemed to expand and then get smaller again.

“We could see it pulsing as if it started up and then it just went it came really close at one stage and I thought it was going to land in the field.

“You can hear me on the video say ‘wow’!”

In 1994, a member of the public reported seeing a large orange light close to Ladybower Dam.

A Derbyshire Constabulary record reads: “The person reported seeing a large orange light moving horizontally and dropping slowly until it went below a line of hills.

“A cloud of smoke was seen to billow out from the light and it then disappeared behind Kinder Scout.

“The light did not reappear.”

Police contacted Manchester Airport but staff could not confirm any aircraft operating in the area – and the strange light remains unexplained.

And on the evening of September 28, 2016, a number of people witnessed two flashing lights in the Derbyshire sky.

Fiona Jordan, of Houfton Road, Bolsover, said: “They were like little cloudy lights – they were dancing about.”

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