A new ranking is making the rounds with a striking claim: residents of Cambridge face a '1 in 400 lifetime chance' of a UFO encounter, the highest rate of any UK city and nearly 14 times higher than London. The figure comes from CSB, a platform specialising in odds, and is already being widely shared as proof Cambridge is Britain's UFO hotspot.
Before accepting the headline number, however, it is worth looking at what the data actually shows — and what it doesn't.
