Record UFO sightings in 2009 claimed by Britons

September 28th, 2009 LONDON - A phantom hitch-hiker getting into cars, a slip road going back to the 1940s, and the ghost of a one-legged priest-these are all among the spookiest spots and incidents revealed in a survey of supernatural sightings over the last 25 years. The study by paranormal researcher Lionel Fanthorpe has revealed that some parts of the country are much more prone to strange goings-on than others.

September 21st, 2009 MELBOURNE - Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) have returned to the skies of a Northern Territory hotspot, where such sightings have also been reported earlier. Workers and tourists at the Wycliffe Well Holiday Park claim to have seen strange lights in the night sky.ews.com.au quoted park employee Julie Zanker as having told Northern Territory News: "We were looking at the sky and there was a white light with red and blue flashing lights around it.

September 20th, 2009 LONDON - UK's Ministry of Defence had launched an investigation of thousands of UFO sightings in the 1990s in a bid to see if alien spaceship technology could advance engines for the Royal Air Force. An unnamed wing commander was said to have set off the project in 1993 to explore possibilities for "technology transfer", according to a book based on the ministry's "X-files" of thousands of UFO sightings.

September 20th, 2009 LONDON - UK has witnessed more than triple number of unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings this year. According to the country's Ministry of Defence documents, 394 sightings were reported from January until the end of last month.

August 24th, 2009 LONDON - A survey has revealed that Brits are so much into surfing the Internet that three-quarters of them even do it while they are sitting in the loo. While newspapers and magazines are traditionally associated with an extended toilet session, modern-day trips to empty bowels appear to have taken on a digital nature, reports the Scotsman.

August 17th, 2009 LONDON - A lemonhead alien tried to abduct two schoolboys in Britain, according to the Ministry of Defence files. The pair said that the extra-terrestrial creature wanted to allure them into a glowing red spaceship as they headed home from a night out.

August 10th, 2009 LONDON - More than a third of 2,000 Brits were said to be unfit for sex, with Glasgow being named the laziest city because 75 per cent of the people there do not exercise, suggests a poll. According to Pollsters, who questioned the partakers for the Nuffield Health Report, three-quarters revealed they were too exhausted by the end of the day for love-making.

July 7th, 2009 LONDON - A team of scientists has applied ecological niche modelling to predict the mythical Bigfoot's favorite haunts in the United States. Conservation biologists often need to predict where rare species are capable of living - for selecting the best site for a national park, for example, or forecasting how badly a species' range will suffer as the climate changes in the future.

June 3rd, 2009 LONDON - A new survey has revealed that 70 percent of Brits have embarrassed themselves at work by doing something silly. The study by biscuit brand Mikado found that while some have broken wind in a meeting, others have worn odd shoes all day, reports the Daily Star.

May 27th, 2009 LONDON - Dozens of sightings of UFOs have been reported from Southport to South Liverpool, and at spots including Ainsdale, Garston and Mossley Hill. All had seen up to four glowing, orange-red balls hovering in the sky.

May 11th, 2009 LONDON - Gurkha campaigner Joanna Lumley is one celebrity whom most Britons see as an ideal mum, according to a poll. Conducted by Disney Channel, the survey found a majority of British people saying that they would like to have Lumley as their mother.

April 30th, 2009 LONDON - The average Briton only has three true friends, concludes a new survey. ost people in the survey claimed to have 16 friends, but 48 per cent admit most of those people are friends 'out of habit'.

April 21st, 2009 LONDON - Music composer James Newton Howard has been nominated twice in the best soundtrack category at the Classical Brits for his work on films The Dark Knight and I Am Legend. Co-composer Hans Zimmer is also nominated for his work in the Dark Knight, reports The BBC.

April 7th, 2009 LONDON - One in ten Britons would cheat on their partner if they thought they could get away with it, a new survey has revealed. Also, a fifth of Brits fantasise regularly about having an affair, the poll of 3,000 married couples revealed.

March 31st, 2009 LONDON - Brits lead the way when it comes to getting steamy in the bed, according to a new survey. In the study conducted by Cosmopolitan magazine more than half of the people admitted using a sex toy in the sack, while a quarter used a webcam.