Huge increase in UFO Sightings over Britain - UFo sighting report

A recent article from Telegraph.co.uk reached Digg Popularity in record time by reporting that there was a huge rise in British UFO sightings.

Well, sort of...

I'm always ready to believe. But this time the data just didn't pan out. The well written, interesting, article used data released by the British Ministry of Defence.

I decided to download the data to do my own analysis. I'll be reporting more on the data in the next week, but I'll just start with a graph of the UFO sightings in Great Britain year by year.



As you can see, there's actually been a decrease in sitings since 2005 and a significant decrease compared to 1997.

As additional interesting data comes out, I'll post it here.

Here's the original source data if you want to do your own analysis:

2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997