There are places on Earth that simply attract UFOs. For reasons that have yet to be elucidated, these locations are literally overflowing with unexplained phenomena and in many cases have become “known hot spots for UFO sightings”.
One such area is located in Scotland – the so-called “Falkirk Triangle”, which starts from the small village of Bonnybridge, stretches east to Fife and west to Stirling. The boundaries of the “triangle” are quite variable and often include some nearby towns and villages.
The area itself is mostly farmland, rolling hills, marshlands and mining towns. Although there aren’t many landmarks the area is known as a ‘hotspot for UFO activity’ and the epicenter seems to be the small village of Bonnybridge itself, which is not that far from Edinburgh and is often called the ‘UFO capital of Scotland’.
It is said that about 300 reports of UFO sightings come from this village every year, and that about one in three locals have seen “something strange in the sky”.
This enigmatic wave of sightings began in the late 1980s and continues to this day.
One of the earliest signals was from 1989, when, in addition to local citizens, firemen who came to extinguish a fire in a house became eyewitnesses. They see a red glowing ball fly straight towards one of the fire engines before it swerves off into the sky again. A second UFO then appears, this time with an intense white light, which descends and begins to circle over a nearby lake.
Because of this incident, many people were questioned and their testimonies were similar, indicating that they had indeed seen something mysterious.
Another famous Bonnybridge incident occurred in 1992 when local businessman James Walker drove from Falkirk to Bonnybridge on his way home from work. Suddenly he notices strange lights in the sky. Walker stops the car to examine the lights, wondering what they could be.
After a while it continues on its way, and the lights form a large star-like object that descends and hangs ominously over the deserted road, causing Walker to stop again. As he sits and ponders what to do, the mysterious object takes off silently at incredible speed.
After the incident, reports of UFO sightings in the Bonnybridge area “poured in like wildfires”. People begin to see UFOs hovering over the roads outside the settlement and cars. One report said a UFO had landed on a golf course. Suddenly Bonnybridge gained a reputation as a “UFO magnet”.
See UFO over Bonnybridge on October 25, 1995
Another notable incident occurred in March 1992 when the Sloggett family was out for an early morning walk. They notice some strange lights in a circular formation over the nearby wasteland. People are so shocked that they go back to their home.
They claim that “a bright blue football-shaped light tried to chase them and block their path, then an alien ship the size of a house landed right in front of them, then the ship’s door opened and a sound was heard like a deep roar or growl’.
The family runs as fast as they can, and when they look back, everything is gone
Over the next five years, from 1992 to 1997, there were hundreds of reports of UFOs in and around Bonnybridge, and many videos of these objects were captured as evidence. Local resident Craig Malcolm claims to have captured over 18 hours of footage of strange lights in the area. Another strange shot was captured on video by Ms Bonetti – a strange black triangle flying over her neighbour’s house.
The UFO activity became so intense that Clerk William Buchanan of Falkirk District Council began writing letters to the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Defense expressing his concerns and asking for advice on what to do.
These requests fell on deaf ears, and Buchanan says:
“I tried to get an answer because of the freaked out people and I got laughed at.”
Soon the UFO activity spread to the surrounding areas and then the name “Falkirk Triangle” appeared in the press.
In 1979, forester Robert Taylor was at a place called Dehmont Woods, just off the M8, when a ‘flying dome’ appeared above the tree line. It flew so low that Taylor could see it was made of black metal.
He smells something burning, then two smaller objects “fall out” of the main ship and shoot a pair of metal objects at the man, which latch onto his thighs and Taylor feels them pulling him.
Shortly after, he wakes up in the woods disoriented and not knowing if he was dreaming or not. He soon becomes convinced that something is wrong when he notices that his clothes are torn and that he is covered in bruises, as if someone had attacked him. At the same time, he can’t remember anything after the pulling sensation he experienced.
When Walker gets to his car he finds it won’t start and is forced to walk all the way home, where he tells his family what happened and claims he was “attacked by a UFO”.
Officers go to the scene, and although they find no evidence, Taylor’s torn clothes and reputation as an honest man and reliable witness lead them to conclude that he is telling the truth.
The incident is one of the best-documented and strangest UFO-related cases in Scottish history.
Apart from Bonnybridge, another place in the Triangle that seems particularly noteworthy is the motorway called the A70 which runs between Edinburgh and Ayr right through the Falkirk Triangle.
In August 1992, two men – Harry Wood and Colin Wright – were traveling along the A70 through West Loudoun when they suddenly realized they had ‘lost’ two hours and had no memory of what had happened to them during that time.
They suspect that they “were abducted by aliens.” They decide to undergo regression hypnosis. It turns out that they were indeed put aboard an alien ship and then taken to an underground base full of people frozen in glass jars, where they were experimented on and released back, erasing their memories.
Near Bonnybridge is the mining town of Gorbridge, which also has its own strange history and is believed to be part of the Falkirk Triangle. There is an old coal mine called Blinkbonnie’s Mine. Around Christmas, two people go to a nearby forest to get wood. They later claimed to have been chased by a “glowing flying green eye” that came out of the shaft.
In the 1990s, there were numerous reports of UFOs haunting Gorebridge residents, most of which centered around this mine. This was widely reported in the media at the time. Some fascinating UFO footage has been captured in the area, such as three glowing orbs over a field and one orb chasing a Boeing 737 en route to Edinburgh Airport, with the plane’s pilot also seeing this object.
Another active area in the Falkirk Triangle is the town of Grangemouth, 5 km east of Falkirk. In 1991, two photographers at British Petroleum’s Grangemouth chemical plant saw flashing lights hovering over Kincardine Bridge. At first they think it’s a helicopter.
The object moves quickly to a nearby stadium, where it lingers for several minutes. It suddenly descends at high speed and flies straight towards passersby, hovering 90 meters above them, making a pulsating hum before suddenly moving away.
In 1994, cleaners at the Grangemouth refinery reported seeing flashing lights in the sky.
Other areas of the Falkirk Triangle where numerous strange reports of UFO activity have come from are the town of Larbert near Bonnybridge, Rosslyn Chapel and a place called “Newton Falkland” near Falkland in Fife. From here, in 1996, comes a really strange message about “a field full of ant-like aliens commanded by taller white beings with a massive black triangle hovering over them.”
Interestingly, despite all this troubling UFO activity in and around the Falkirk Triangle, the British government was unconcerned about it all, and in 2009 the Ministry of Defense closed its UFO Investigations Unit entirely.
A report prepared for Secretary of Defense Bob Ainsworth stated:
“The Department of Defense should seek to significantly reduce the UFO investigation task, which is consuming more and more resources but providing no valuable protection. For over 50 years, not a single UFO sighting reported to the Ministry of Defense has ever revealed anything – an extraterrestrial presence or a military threat to the UK, and there is no use for Defense to record, collate, analyze or investigate UFO sightings.
Investigations of UFO sightings, even from more reliable sources, serve no useful purpose and simply distract air defense specialists from their primary tasks. Accordingly, no further investigations should be undertaken into UFO reports from any source.”
Everything that happens in the Falkirk Triangle seems to be either ignored or covered up by the British Ministry, yet enough sightings and stories of encounters with the unknown still come in from the region that there is an ongoing debate as to why exactly in this area of Scotland all this happens.
One hypothesis is that this area, for reasons that are not fully understood, serves as a kind of portal through which these beings and their ships can easily move from one place to another. Perhaps even allowing interdimensional “intruders” to penetrate the veil into our reality.
It is also noted that this land from ancient times was “saturated” with stories about fairies, magic and various strange creatures and phenomena. Could current UFO activity and ancient tales be connected? For decades, many researchers have noted suspicious similarities between stories of encounters with fairies and stories of humans being abducted by aliens.
