An orange ball of light in the skies over a Scots town has been recorded on a database of potential UFO sightings.
One user took to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) – a US-based non-profit organization composed of civilian volunteers who study reported UFO sightings – to share the details of the alleged sighting over Alva, Clackmannanshire, just days before Christmas.
According to the report filed with the MUFON database, the person witnessed a “huge bright object” that moved slowly, from north to south.
The report on the database reads: “Orange colour, regular ball. No sounds. No position lights – like red and green in a plane. Maybe 200-300-feet above ground level.
“Visible for minute or two at 11.23pm. Disappeared in a second. My son took a photo, but the camera was on 1 second exposure and you can’t see a ball but a direction of movement.”
However no photo was published along with the report.
The sighting took place shortly before 11.30pm on Sunday, December 22, and was reported to MUFON two days later, on Christmas Eve.
The Forth Valley area has become a hotbed for UFO activity in recent years.
In June 2017, a Bannockburn woman claimed that she spotted a UFO that had left her unable to sleep at night. The then 42-year-old, who did not wish to be named, detail her jaw-dropping sighting in Hillpark, Bannockburn. She said: “The size of it was unreal. It was about 20ft away from and I’d say it was about 100ft in diameter.
“Even if it was a military thing, why was it coming down a quiet street?
“I know it sounds crazy, but I would say it was a spaceship.
“I could see writing on the top of it as well, like Egyptian hieroglyphs.
“It has been a few sleepless nights for me since it.”
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In September 2018, a video surfaced online apparently showing an unidentified aircraft on fire and in distress in the skies above Kippen. The video was posted by a Youtube channel titled UFO Today and was submitted by an anonymous female subscriber who lives near the village.
The video was captured on Saturday, September 1, 2018, after the woman heard a loud bang outside. She rushed to her balcony with her camera and she noticed what she described as “a UFO flying erratically near a hill”.
In the video, the object can be seen to be seemingly on fire, with flames and sparks emitting from it. The object was rapidly changing altitude and direction before tailing off and seemingly disappearing.
In October 2019, an eagle-eyed UFO hunter claimed to have seen the strange phenomenon over Stirling. The anonymous spotter noted that there had been fireworks being set off in the area around the time but said that the glowing object appeared in the sky for several minutes.
In the incident report of the sighting, they said: “There was also fireworks on at the time but the white kind of circle shapes (were) moving fast and diagonal, left and right, moving away fast and coming back to the spot in sky that was visible to this. (It) lasted about five minutes.”
Just days later, another man claimed to have seen mysterious lights in the sky just days after report The stargazer claims to have been on Tak Ma Doon Road, near to the Carron Valley Reservoir, when he and a friend spotted “very strange”, quick moving white oval lights flying over head. He told how the lights moved without making a sound and said that they were “most definitely not any sort of thing that has been man-made”.
In September 2020, a Dunblane man claimed to have come into close contact with a UFO in the town in a late-night encounter. The man, who did not wish to be identified, said that he was awoken in the dead of night by a bright, glowing light shining in his bedroom window. He had been fast asleep when he was roused at around 2am.
He said: “I walked over to the window and looked out. I saw a bright white ball of light, which measured about 15 feet across. It couldn’t have been any more than 15 feet from me. It made a low humming noise, but oddly there was absolutely no heat coming from it, which I thought was strange for something shining so bright.”
The man, who has a background in engineering, says that the ball of light was soon joined by two others and they then set off, moving slowly, estimated to be around 5mph, over his house off in the direction of Doune.
On the bizarre encounter the man said: “I wasn’t particularly frightened, I was more interested in what I was seeing. I don’t know exactly what it was, but it certainly seemed to have been being controlled.”