HUNDREDS of UFO sightings have been reported in Britain since 2020 — with Yorkshire the hotbed of activity.
The police have received a flood of reports of flying saucers, alien abductions, and descriptions.
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Officers in South Yorks received the most at 127 — 53 of them in Sheffield.
UFO specialists said the sightings increased during Covid because those stuck inside spent more of their time outside.
What would attract an E.T. to “God’s Own Country” — known for its tea, puddings, terriers, Whitby Abbey, cricket legend Geoffrey Boycott and actor Sean Bean.
Russ Kellet of Yorkshire claims to be a seasoned UFO investigator who has been kidnapped dozens times.
He said since Covid he had noticed “more and more people were getting into the paranormal, from ghost hunting to alien abductions”.
Leicester had 65 UFO sightings reported to the police, and Essex had 20.
Police were called to a Derbyshire village after a “portal” reportedly opened over a resident’s garden and a mystery craft the size of a bus appeared.
The local, who claimed not to believe in aliens, said: “All you could see is a flat surface and a beam of light coming down to the ground.”
Merseyside officers dealt with a caller who said they saw “a cone-shaped UFO and beams of orange light” in the sky above St Helen’s.
In the Nottinghamshire village of Gedling, one local visited cops to report being “kidnapped by a UFO”.
Unnerved onlookers in North Wales reported seeing a large silver craft chased down by a helicopter flashing its lights.
A UFO spotter told Essex Police: “The object appeared oval in shape and was a metallic colour with no apparent markings or lights.
“It was moving quickly across the sky, with no deviation in height or direction.”
There are some areas of the US that seem to have a high level of UFO activity.
Wiltshire Constabulary stated that it has not received any UFO reports in the last three years.
The data — obtained after a Freedom of Information request — comes as Nasa refuses to rule out signs of alien life.
On Thursday, the results of their latest study were released.
In the last three decades, 16 scientists have examined more than 800 instances of Unidentified Abnormal Phenomena.
Some of them could not explain the events. They attributed most to natural phenomena, or balloons.