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We often hear about hot spots for UFO sightings. Places like Catalina Island in California, Las Vegas, the country of Mexico, areas in and around Russia, and off the coast of North Carolina.
However, while all of those locations are definite hot spots for UFO activity, some so-called UFO hot spots are significantly hotter than others.
And two new reports published in the past week have revealed two of the biggest UFO hot spots in the world.
Those two locations are the state of Maryland in the United States and an Aberdeenshire village over in the United Kingdom.
According to CBS News Baltimore, Maryland has had nearly 2,000 UFO sightings reported since 1995.
“There have been 1,923 reports from the state of Maryland,” said Peter Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center. “I don’t know what the future has in store for us, but I am encouraged that more people are coming forward and the government recognizes the UFO phenomenon that’s something worthy of their attention.”
One of those witnesses, Greg Facelo of Port Deposit, told CBS News Baltimore he saw something odd in the sky over Cecil County.
“It went across the sky this way and only lasted for maybe 30 to 45 seconds,” Facelo said. “If it was a shooting star, a comet, some natural occurrence, I wouldn’t have bothered to send it to you, but this thing looked made by some intelligent life form. It was nothing like I’ve never seen before.”
Meanwhile, across the pond in the United Kingdom, one of Scotland’s leading UFOlogists, Malcolm Robinson, reports that the Aberdeenshire village of Muchalls is a hot spot for UFO sightings.
Robinson, who has written 10 books on the subject, recently told Aberdeen Live that the settlement near Newtonhill is a “UFO window area” for suspected extraterrestrial activity.
In Malcolm’s book, UFO Case Files of Scotland Volume 2, he recounts some of the tales stunned locals have told him over the years.
The first one dates back to 1964, when a motorist followed a bizarre ball of light through the village and nearby Hamlet Bridge of Muchalls.
Driver Matthew, joined by his 19-year-old brother and mother, was then chased by the orange light along a deserted country road before it suddenly disappeared.
Another, reported to have taken place in December 1971, involved young resident Tom Moir, who lived to the west of the village.
Later, when Tom Moir finally revealed what he had seen to the media, other people came forward to say they had the same experience in 1968.
“Tom is an intelligent man; a man who is used to seeing aircraft and helicopters in the sky, what he saw growing up in Muchalls was none of these and to this day has lasting memories of his time and his experiences there,” said Malcolm.