When you think of UFO sightings, your initial thoughts may be that they're more America's domain, but apparently the UK is a hotspot for extra-terrestrials too.

In the last two and a half years nearly 1,000 alien sightings have been reported by Brits across the nation.

All of these reports have been plotted on a map so you can see, or avoid, the UFO hotspots.

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It comes after the US Congress heard from retired Major David Grusch, a former Air Force intelligence officer, about possible evidence of extra-terrestrial contact.

Speaking to the House Oversight sub-committee, Grusch said the US is concealing a long-standing programme that retrieves and reverse-engineers unidentified flying objects.

Adding that the US has likely been aware of “non-human” activity since the 1930s.

Despite his testimony, some experts remain sceptical about the existence of aliens and the evidence provided.

Professor Brian Cox said “extraordinary” claims had been made, but without “extraordinary evidence” to back them up.

The British government has communicated with the US regarding its unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) programmes.

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Between January 2021 and May this year, the UFO spotter website UFO Identified documented a total of 957 sightings.

That includes 410 in 2021, 494 in 2022, and 53 as of May 20 this year.

Previous sightings include a “long cigar-shaped craft with three or four roundish patterns on it” which was observed for 20 minutes before it “vanished like a light being switched off” above Chester in Cheshire in October last year.

A “rocket-type object” was also spotted flying above the clouds over Hartlepool “extremely fast and soundless with flames over the front” in November 2022.

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And a 30ft to 40ft wide “round saucer-like object with detailed outer rim” was seen “hovering over a house” in Bedworth, Warwickshire in January.

While there have been nearly 1,000 recorded sightings in the last two-and-a-half years, Ash Ellis of UFO Identified believes many more are going unreported.

He said: “Despite progress being made in recent years to de-stigmatise the topic, there is still an air of trepidation when approaching the subject as the fear or ridicule is very prevalent.

“There were almost 500 reported sightings in the UK last year, with likely many times that number going unreported showing that there is a genuine concern around unidentified phenomena being seen across the country.”

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Mr Ellis added: “There is no doubt in my mind that the UK has, at the very least, had some sort of communication with the US with regards to their UAP programmes, this was confirmed as much when the Canadian military recently confirmed that it had taken part in a forum for Five Eyes intelligence partners in May this year that was held by AARO director Sean Kirkpatrick.

"The Five Eyes is an intelligence alliance between the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the U.K.

“There is still a lot to come out about what the US knows, and ultimately this may lead to them revealing that the UK does indeed play a part in this work, and surely it is better for our secret-keepers to come out sooner, rather than later and completely lose the little remaining trust that we have in them.”

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