Map shows UFO sightings as 17 reported in Northern Ireland

A new map shows the locations of UFO sightings in the UK as 17 have been reported in Northern Ireland since 2021.

This week the US Congress held a hearing regarding UFOs or Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), in an effort to “pull back the curtain” on secret research into them.

The hearing, titled “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth,” heard from several experts and a variety of witness accounts.

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Michael Gold - former NASA associate administrator of space policy and partnerships and a member of the UAP study team - told the hearing that “the vast majority of UAP are drones”.

However, he added that there are anomalies that must be studied and admitted that some of the UAPs observed “can move faster” than US submarines and “are being intelligently controlled”.

Author and former Department of Defence official Luis Elizondo claimed that “advanced technologies not made by our government - or any other government - are monitoring sensitive military installations around the globe.”

He insisted: “Let me be clear. UAP are real.”

Sightings of UFOs are not uncommon in the UK, although they occur more frequently in the US, with hundreds being reported in the past few years which range from bright lights moving quickly across the sky in a strange manner to reports of a UFO travelling between Belfast and Dungannon every evening.

In Northern Ireland, Belfast has the highest number of reported UFO sightings, with four since 2021. Each UFO sighting is different with some reporting seeing a triangle shape in the sky with others seeing star-like shapes and others seeing bright orbs.

The most recent UFO sighting in Northern Ireland took place on October 9, 2023, in Lurgan and was described as a "Dark triangular UFO with dull white lights in each 'rounded' corner, streaked very fast West to East across the clear night sky."

Last year the British spotter group UFO Identified documented a total of 395 sightings in the UK in 2023.

That was a 20% drop from 497 UFO sightings in 2022 and also lower than in 2021 (413) and 2020 (484).

It found that people in the North West had the best chance of seeing a UFO last year, with 41 sightings across the region, followed by the South East (40) and then the South West (39).

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