A quiet countryside village is an unlikely location for a UFO 'hotspot' - but a sleepy UK community is just that. Tales of unexplained objects over the skies of Bonsall, in Derbyshire, have spread as far as Hollywood.
Back in the early 2000s, there were 19 separate sightings with one woman reporting a 'ball of fire' in the skies, and another 'two big, bright lights', while a man out walking his dog witnessed a 'pink glow, vertically-shaped like a shoe box', reports Derbyshire Live. The most famous. however, was footage of a flying saucer taken by housewife Sharon Rowlands in 2001.
She is reported to have sold the film to a Hollywood producer for £20,000 It is even claimed NASA officials requested to examine the tape as they believed it showed a similar type of craft once spotted by the space agency's cameras during the STS-75 Columbia Space Shuttle mission in early 1996.
It is claimed by UFO believers the 'tether incident' saw a craft slice through an experimental tether between the shuttle and a satellite during a test. Orbiting the Earth, however, seems a world away from Bonsall, near Matlock, set in the Derbyshire Dales and with a population of under 1,000.
