7 March 2005
(The Scotsman, Edinburgh ,
UK )
Quote from the article:
“Bonnybridge is in the ‘Falkirk Triangle,’ an area
from Stirling to Fife and the fringes of Edinburgh
that is the scene of numerous UFO sightings. It averages about 300 sightings a
year and of the population’s 5,500 people 2,000 of them claim to have seen
something unexpected in the night skies.
That something as yet unexplained is happening in the
Bonnybridge area has support from an unusual quarter. Nick Pope, who ran the
UFO desk at the MoD between 1991 and 1994, told The Scotsman that it couldn’t
all be ignored.
‘About 95 per cent or the reports are just misidentifications.
But there’s around 5 per cent which are sightings by police officers, military
personnel and civil pilots, that you cannot knock down.’ ”
Aerial photo of Bonnybridge (UK):