Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ufo-reports-in-the-uk
(The snapshot shown here is just the year 2000 frame from the full animation.
It isn’t the whole dataset)
Hi all,
I created a visual based on FOI data from UK police forces.
I'm not saying it's true. I'm just reporting what’s officially recorded.
This chart shows the number of UFO sightings reported across UK cities from 1997 to 2023), based entirely on Freedom of Information (FOI) data released by police forces and published by the UK government.
📎 Official source: gov.uk – UFO Reports in the UK
Some police forces stopped reporting after 2009, but others continued documenting sightings for years afterward.
I didn’t estimate, invent, or exaggerate anything, this is straight from government records. All I did was visualize it.
So what do you think?
- Why do some regions report far more sightings than others?
- Do you believe the reports were investigated seriously or dismissed?
- Why did some police forces stop collecting reports after 2009 while others continued?
The gov.uk FOI dataset officially covers UK UFO reports only up to 2015. Some forces continued reporting after this year, but national data beyond 2015 is incomplete. My visual reflects this limitation.
Full video here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEuLz0hE-9g
by drunkstoned94
6 Comments
That’s just a list of largest cities. Needs to be per capita.
More people = more sightings.
Two of those are counties not cities.
Birmingham is under represented but otherwise it just looks like a list of UK cities roughly in size order.
So more people means more reports?
That’s all you’re telling us.
Manchester is Blue confirmed
1) more drunk people
2) dismissed
3) nobody can see the sky in London
The numbers are so low that this is meaningless. It reminds me of how on 2017, Heathrow airport got 79,000 noise complaints — but apparently half of those were from just ten people. I guess that they were filing a report every time they heard a plane. 5 UFO reports in Cheshire in a year could easily ask be the same person with a bee in their bonnet.