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This article was originally written for a paranormal magazine called The Paranormal Journal, it became known as The Underground Files covering ghosts, ufos, cryptozoology, and government conspiracies amongst others. I no longer write for the magazine and it is no longer in existence. The Bonnybridge UFO Escalation Scotland is usually associated with magnificent high mountains and tumbling rivers but its country folk now have something else to talk about… UFOs… More odd incoming craft have been tracked over the hills and glens than anywhere else in the world and UFO enthusiasts are flocking north to experience close encounters of the Caledonian kind… A survey published on Monday, June 12th, 2002 revealed that 300 UFOs are seen in Scotland each year, that’s four times as many as France and Italy, which appear to be the aliens’ next port of call. It’s stating publicly forget about Roswell, New Mexico and Area 51! This area has seen less activity in the last 10 years with Mulder and Scully trying to find out the truth. They inadvertently kept something quite then didn’t they! Graham Birdsall, editor of UFO Magazine, has tried to explain the phenomenon. “UFOs tend to be attracted to regions that are fairly remote,” he said. “Plus, if you have a remote area, lookout for airbases; Scotland is littered with airbases. In 90 percent of reports, a bit of diligent research will produce a simple explanation.” 10 percent is left unexplained… “When you think of the number of sightings in Scotland compared to the size of its population, it is phenomenal,” said Ron Halliday, who has written two books on the appearance of UFOs in Scotland. It is not the Highland or Borders areas that are visited so much, in the 90’s a surge of sightings were seen in the central Scottish areas of West Lothian and Stirlingshire, exceptionally so around the small town of Bonnybridge, near Falkirk. “The area has become known as the Falkirk triangle,” Halliday said. “There have been various suggestions as to why it is such a magnet for UFOs. One theory is that area near Bonnybridge is a window into another dimension. That would explain why certain people see a UFO and others don’t – because a UFO is some kind of paranormal phenomenon, rather than a nuts and bolts spaceship.” Halliday also stated things go beyond strange lights in the sky. Some people have encountered shimmering discs just yards away from their bodies, while others said they had been attacked by UFOs. The most famous such incident was in 1979, when Forestry worker Bob Taylor claimed a gang of shimmering spheres, with spikes protruding from them like naval mines, assaulted him. He lived to tell the tale and thousands reported encounters and UFO spotters followed. Craig Malcolm has taken video footage for six years outside the Forge restaurant in Bonnybridge. While three airports and a gas-flaring oil terminal all lie within a 30-mile radius and offer some explanation for what he shot, footage of a ball of light dog-legging it back and forth across a clear sky, however, is the least bit strange. Malcolm spends hours in favourite spotting sites such as the one next to the electric pylons, where a circular ball of light is said to have been seen bouncing off the tree tops, and a field where a plane like object with no wings sent ‘black reek belching out of the back of it as it soared off’. Bonnybridge’s status as a UFO capitol has prompted one councillor to call for it to be twinned with Roswell and ambitious plans have been rumoured to build a multi-million-pound UFO theme park. Halliday goes on to say, “There has also been a substantial number of sightings in the Glasgow area.” VisitScotland, the tourist board that commissioned the latest survey, sees it as a growth market. “Our survey confirms,” said Karen Gray of VisitScotland, “that Scotland is the nearest thing there is to the Costa del Sol for aliens.” Whatever the truth about UFOs, the Falkirk triangle has already attracted hundreds of visitors from the United States, Japan and England. The Bonnybridge UFO Escalation written by Bill Barber |
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