Almost 1,000 unexplained objects have been spotted above the UK in the last two-and-a-half years - including 13 in Coventry and Warwickshire. The new figures have been revealed amid Nasa's claims that it simply can’t explain some UFO sightings.
The space agency, which has today celebrated the return to Earth of a space capsule carrying Nasa’s first asteroid samples, has published a report into hundreds of unidentified flying objects, or UAPs - unidentified anomalous phenomena - as it calls them.
Releasing the findings, Nasa administrator Bill Nelson said: "The Nasa independent study team did not find any evidence that UAP have an extra-terrestrial origin. But we don’t know what they are."
READ MORE: Rough sleeping in Coventry to be tackled amid increase in homeless families
"That’s why I’m announcing that Nasa has appointed a Nasa director of UAP research. They are being tasked with developing and overseeing the implementation of Nasa’s vision for UAP research."
He said the agency wants to “shift the conversation about UAP, from sensationalism to science”, and address some of the stigma around UFO sightings. He added that new science techniques and artificial intelligence (AI) were needed to better understand them.
The Nasa intervention comes as almost 1,000 unexplained objects have been documented in the skies above the UK between January 2021 and May this year by the UFO spotter website UFO Identified. That includes five sightings above Coventry and Warwickshire in 2021, six last year, and two between January and May this year.
Sightings documented in our area included:
A police report of a person who claimed to have seen a “purple UFO” outside their home in Warwick in September 2021. An “orange fireball” travelling “at speed in a straight line overhead” while “making no sound” was observed in the sky above Leamington Spa in October 2022.
And a 30ft to 40ft wide “round saucer-like object with detailed outer rim” that was seen hovering over a house in Bedworth in January of this year. Use our interactive widget below to find all the recent sightings near where you live.
Sign up to our daily newsletter here for all the latest Coventry news.
