London has three times more UFO sightings than any other UK town or city — with 336 incidents since 2001
Celebrity UFO believers include Robbie Williams, Shaun Ryder and Kim Wilde – who had a close encounter in her back garden in 2009.
LONDON is the UFO capital of the UK with THREE times more sightings than any other town or city.
New statistics show that 336 UFO incidents have been officially reported there since 2001 – with a host of celebs including David Bowie, Robbie Williams and Prince Philip among the believers.
Manchester is the second with 110 close encounters while there were 79 in Birmingham and 56 in Liverpool.
North of the border Glasgow topped the list with 69 and Cardiff logged 35 reports.
Overall the UK is the third highest in the world for UFO sightings with 5,234 reports in the past 16 years.
The US has had the most sightings with 139,876 – the equivalent of one report every hour.
Canada is second with 5,780.
Mexico had 607 and India 574.
New York based journalist Cheryl Costa revealed the latest figures after reports flooded into the Mutual UFO Network – the world’s biggest civilian UFO group – and the National UFO Reporting Centre.
Many could be explained as aircraft misidentifications or natural phenomena but around five per cent remain unsolved and defy explanation.
She said: “Top investigators with MUFON tell me about 5 per cent of annual reported UFO sightings fall in this mysterious unknown category.
“Percentage wise that means nationally we have about 500 of these mysterious unknown events yearly, with an average of about 40 per month.
“That’s a big deal.”