DO aliens exist and do they study us in flying saucers under the cover of darkness?

Or is it all a nonsense? The truth is out there, as Fox Mulder once said.

UFOs - or unidentified flying objects - prowling the skies may sound far fetched but there are thousands of believers.

And our fascination with aliens have prompted some of the best films and TV shows from E.T to Arrival.

Today is World UFO Day so we have taken a look at the data from UFO Stalker - a sighting map for strange phenomena - to explore some of the sightings that have been reported in Warrington over 20 years.

Altogether, UFO Stalker has logged 110,887 sightings, including 4,842 in the past year alone, and while many or even most may be bogus it does make you wonder...

November 16, 2020, 4.35pm - Vincent Close, Old Hall

"Strange dark, irregular object."

July 11, 2020, 11pm - on the corner of Wash Lane and Prescot Street, Latchford

"Fast travelling light, odd manoeuvres."

April 14, 2020, 9.14pm - Westbourne Road, Walton

"Single flashing light off in distance moving slowly."

July 30, 2018, 11.02pm - Winwick Road

"Very bright slow-moving object."

July 15, 2018, 6.30am - Cottam Drive, Fearnhead

"Hovered for 20 mins, changed shape then released an orb which circled it for three minutes."

March 23, 2018, 8.17pm - near Central Station

"It’s was kind of a long slim orb hoovering aboveboard me then it sped off like extremely fast."

November 3, 2017, midnight - Longford Street

"Red spherical object."

April 5, 2015, 3.32am - Hopwood Street

"I saw several objects for around 30 seconds to one minute making quick 

manoeuvres, then just vanishing into thin air."

February 22, 2015, 3.20am - Glazebrook Lane, Glazebrook

"A ball of bright white light moving at high speed from cloud cover at approx north to cloud cover north east and didn't exit cloud cover."

June 15, 2014, 9.30pm - near Delph Lane, Winwick

"Four different craft types (lights) seen over the year."

March 9, 2014, 11.10pm - near Warrington Cemetaery, Manchester Road

"Strange object spotted."

December 14, 2013, 3.10pm - Manchester Road, Woolston

"Red blinking lights, looked like the back of a sleigh. Followed it for two miles in van. Kind of triangular."

November 19, 2011, 3.10am - Stonecrop Close, Birchwood

"Six to seven aerial vehicles flew very quickly overhead."