STRANGE things have happened in Reading.

From black smoke rings in the sky to a flying saucer type object, in the past 10 years residents from across the borough have come across some weird and wonderful things.

And it may prove that aliens really do exist...

A UFO, or an unidentified flying object, is described as “a mysterious object seen in the sky for which it is claimed no orthodox scientific explanation can be found, often supposed to be a vehicle carrying extraterrestrials.”

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According to an interactive map, thousands of UFO reports have been made over the years- including some in Reading.

UFO Stalker allows you to search for any previous UFO sightings- and also report some for yourself.

In total, over 111,270 potential UFO sightings have been reported to the map with 348 in the last month alone.

Using the map, we have tracked down some of the reports made in the Reading area- one person even reported an actual UFO encounter.

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Can they be explained away or are they really evidence of something other-worldly?

14/08/2017

"I noticed there was an area of the sky that was blacked out where I'd previously seen stars as it was perfectly clear that night. The shape of the blackness was triangular and I realised it was a craft of some description. It was huge and completely silent.

"There was no movement of air or any sound. It was low and then we saw two orange lights appear. They seemed attached to the craft yet they seemed to move around each other underneath and were definitely not fixed.

"We both instinctively knew it wasn't anything usual and didn't seem man made. It disappeared out of view beyond our house. I've seen lots of pictures of stealth aircraft but none that match this in either size or exact shape."

4/03/2020

"Travelling along the M4 towards reading (westbound) it was a clear sky and I notice around 5 lights which looked like stars in the night sky, it struck me as odd as they were all in a line, as i continued to drive the line of lights got longer until about 10-15 light could be seen, at one point two of the lights moved up along side each other, as i mainly travel to work before sunrise I'm used to seeing the stars and aircraft and military aircraft but this much much higher, and with no additional lights coming from then.

"They looked identical to a bright star in the night sky."

10/06/1996

"At friends house walking home with two other friends past open field at Maiden Place, Lower Earley Reading.

"I turned to my friends and said don't you think the moon is very orange and very low, my friend replying to me said no look behind the moon, is there, this is when the orange large object zipped into centre view then split into three,then it came towards us at phenomenal speed making us duck down then it went away from us at ridiculous speeds joined back into one large object then shot away from us into a pinprick of light then ping it was gone in about 5 secs from large as moon to a pinprick?

"True as I am writing this and living and breathing one of my friends was a doctor who he see the same thing."

18/07/1965

"I was asleep in bed in an upstairs bedroom. I was awoke by something unknown and went to the bedroom window and saw a disc shaped object on the back lawn. Object was approx 6 - 10 feet in dia and had lights and a dome, a classic saucer shape in fact.

"I stood and watched it for some time and returned to bed as I thought I was dreaming. It was only in the morning when I went outside that I realised it was not a dream as there on the ground was a perfect circle of discoloured grass. my father also witnessed the evidence in the morning."