It is one of the world’s most prolific UFO hotspots with around 300 annual sightings.

But it’s not Area 51 or Roswell. This is Bonnybridge, a picturesque Scottish village at the apex of an area dubbed the Falkirk Triangle, where extraterrestrial encounters ranging from alien abductions to cigar-shaped spaceship sightings, are almost commonplace.

Known as the ‘Roswell of Scotland’ and compared to the Bermuda Triangle, because of speculation that it’s a window to another dimension, intense UFO activity has sparked government investigation and pleas for help to four Prime Ministers.

“I have been doing this job for 45 years. I honestly believe that somewhere in the skies of this planet we are dealing with non-human intelligence,” says UFO expert Malcolm Robinson, who says NASA, the American government and the Pentagon have all investigated extraterrestrial sightings.

As part of a new documentary series showing on Blaze, experts from around the world have tried to uncover why UFO activity in the Falkirk Triangle - located above the cities of Falkirk, Glasgow and Edinburgh - is so intense.

A terrifying encounter in 1992 saw friends Garry Wood and Colin Wright claim they were taken prisoner by extraterrestrials in a flying saucer, as they drove towards Tarbrax, a south Lanarkshire village, to deliver a satellite TV system to a pal.

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