The unsuspecting village on the edge of the Peak District that’s a ‘UFO HOTSPOT’

An unsuspecting village on the edge of the Peak District has been dubbed the UK’s ‘UFO hotspot’.

On the surface, Bonsall is no different to other Derbyshire villages, dotted with charming pubs and picturesque footpaths.

Still, the area has been the focus of countless UFO sightings over the years, from spinning “silver shapes” to green lights.

Some claim that even NASA has taken an interest in the area after a local spotter captured a mysterious flying object in the night sky.

Since then, the village has been overrun with many visitors from far and wide in search of Bonsall’s famous UFOs.

A resident of the neighboring hamlet of Slaley claimed their holiday home is just a stone’s throw from where one of Bonsall’s most famous UFO sightings took place.

This reportedly happened in 2001 when local Sharon Rowlands accidentally filmed a “house-sized disc” in the sky.

The landlord asked to remain anonymous and told MailOnline: ‘A lot of people are quite interested and want to talk about the village.

We have a vacation rental and many guests are quite interested.

“We have a hot tub where you can look up to the sky and get a pretty good view of the valley.

“We definitely see things flying overhead at night, we’ve seen loads of satellites, we’ve seen comets — things like that.”

The leased owner believes Bonsall’s lack of light pollution is a major reason why so many people have seen strange things in the sky.

They continued: ‘I think it’s because the sky is so clear at night with no light pollution, you can see a lot more than in a city or somewhere where there are more people.

“Other people have seen things over the years, I think Sharon’s is the most famous. People from the village say they’ve seen things on the moors, but they get a little hesitant when you ask about it.’

Last month Ms Rowlands shared her account of what happened to GBNewsclaiming that the mysterious flying disc made no sound as it moved towards her.

She said, “We had been looking at something in the sky with the naked eye for 10 minutes. And I decided to pick up the video, lean against the kitchen door and film it.

“As soon as we turned on the video, we saw a disc with colored lights around it, and when watching with the naked eye, it didn’t move.”

Mrs. Rowlands recalled that the object grew larger as it approached, alternating between a flat shape and a disc shape before finally disappearing.

After her experience, NASA is said to have looked at the tape, finding the object to resemble something seen during a space shuttle mission in 1996, aaccording to Manchester evening news.

Mrs. Rowlands, however, claimed that they could do that on their own confirm that it is ametal’ object that was not a commercial or military aircraft.

MailOnline has reached out to NASA for comment, but has yet to confirm.

“Normally I don’t talk about it because people think you’re crazy,” she added.

Mrs. Rowlands is one of many others who claim to have seen mysterious flying objects in the area.

Another Bonsall resident also told MailOnline that she once saw “the edge of something with lights around it” in the sky in the mid-1970s when she was just 10 years old.

Although her parents brushed it off as a typical nightmare, a visitor to their boarding house reported seeing something similar the next morning.

Recalling her “frightening” experience, the anonymous source said: “The boarding house that Mum and Dad ran was fully booked, so the family was crushed in the attic. I slept on a camp bed in the room next to Mom and Dad.

“I was awakened by a thumping noise echoing through the floor. There were no curtains on the skylight I was under. In the corner of the window I saw the curved edge of something huge and lights danced around it.

“I described this to my parents as the moon breaking up. I started crying and Dad woke up with a cramp, he assured me it was just a bad dream.

‘The next morning at breakfast the guests complained about the traffic and lights from the road and said the garden looked like it was lit up. We lived at the end of an avenue with no street lighting and in the middle of the countryside.’

About 20 UFOs have reportedly been spotted in the area since the 2000s.

The source added: “Because it’s been so long had it not been for someone else to back me up, I would probably now doubt what I saw.”

Government reports show that UFOs have also been seen in the wider Matlock area, with records going back to the late 1990s.

Of the reports, many have gravitated toward “silver” flying objects, while others claim to have seen “rotating beams of light.”

A 1997 witness account reads: “Two silver objects that formed the letter H. They were shiny. They moved slowly in a straight line.’

Another from 2005 says: ‘The witness said there was a descending white light. Then spinning beams of light rising from the ground.’

Government UFO statistics have not been released since 2009 following advice that defense assets could be put to better use.

But information put forth by Bonus Insider and UFO Identified suggests 28 sightings took place in the East Midlands last year, of 497 in the UK.

Just 90 minutes away from Bonsall, Greater Manchester experienced the most sightings in the UK with a total of 26 UFOs and UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena).

This compares to just four across Northern Ireland in 2022 and nine sightings in the previous year.

Aside from Northern Ireland, the number of UFO sightings in England, Wales and Scotland increased by 20 percent between 2021 and last year.

The surge in UFO reports comes after SpaceX launched more than 1,600 Starlink satellites into orbit about two years ago.

At the time, numerous videos and images of glowing lights were uploaded to Twitter, with many users wondering if they had seen something alien.

One person tweeted, “What was this line of star-like objects in a line going just above your head?”

Another added, “I swear I just saw a spacecraft over Seattle, it was a straight string of lights floating slowly through the sky.” What is happening?’

These reports also come amid rumors of “Chinese spy balloons,” featuring objects shot down by the US military after warnings that UAPs had invaded US airspace.