May 15 - Arbroath - Two saucer shaped lights zipped across the sky at phenomenal speeds together, as if attached. This happened numerous times from 11:30pm until 3am As it turns out, Lindsay had held on to the original photo — still in its Daily Record envelope — hoping that one day, someone would come looking for it. West Lothian and Falkirk towns have had hundreds of unidentified aerial phenomena (the official term now used instead of UFO) sightings recorded but the small town of Bonnybridge stands out amongst the crowded field. An unassuming town in the Falkirk area, it is home to 9,000 residents, and over 300 unexplained UFO encounters.

Oct 30, 9.35 pm – Dumbarton: A triangular craft with a light at each corner, flew smooth and silent then disappeared into the clouds. (Source: NUFORC) Tallying reports from MUFON (Mutual UFO Network), BUFORA (British UFO Network) and NUFORC (National UFO Reporting Centre), as well as four official reports submitted to Police Scotland, Ash and his team were able to pull together a list of some incredible sightings.

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Local businessman Phill Fenton published a report in 2013, speculating that Taylor "may have suffered a mini-stroke and been exposed to harmful chemicals which left him confused and disoriented" and that "the UFO he believes he saw could have been a saucer-shaped water tower nearby". [6] See also [ edit ]

Such is the intensity of feeling that local councillor Billy Buchanan in October called on the UK Government to officially open an inquiry into Bonnybridges' close encounters of the third kind. November 11, 3pm — Edinburgh: Three or four lots of objects in a circular formation above Murrayfield, only seen on photos not with naked eye June 25, 10.25 pm – Glasgow: What looked like a dark, flat, frisby moving in the sky zig-zagged before disappearing (Source: UFOIdentified)

'Unlike any conventional aircraft & nearly 100 feet in diameter'

February 27, 3.02pm — Edinburgh: Bright white orb spotted in photograph hovering above Edinburgh Castle The Lothians area was next with 7 reports, while Aberdeenshire, Fife and Stirlingshire all recorded three sightings of mysterious objects each.

Though Clarke is "100 percent sure that someone, somewhere in the military establishment in Britain or in the U.S. knows exactly what the photograph shows," the journalist also admits that it's possible the image could be anything—including a prank. Don't miss the latest news from around Scotland and beyond - Sign up to our daily newsletter here. READ NEXT:A secret dossier into one of the UK's most famous UFO sightings will be sealed from the public for another 50 years. At the time, the hikers - whose identities are not known - said they watched the metallic object - about 100ft long - hovering with a low hum for about 10 minutes and saw the fighter jets pass in the distance.