Falkirk Triangle
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A staggering 300 accounts of UFO sightings flood in every year—over an area that has become known as the Falkirk Triangle.
Eyewitnesses claim to have seen everything from balls of fire and flying cigars to orange orbs and flashing lights in the skies above the Triangle—the three geographical points are formed on a map by the Scottish towns of Stirling, Falkirk, & Bonnybridge. At one point, there were plans to create a UFO theme park and twin Bonnybridge, population 6,000, with Roswell in New Mexico.[1]
History
On a historical note, the first sighting that brought the Falkirk Triangle to global attention was when James Walker noticed lights above the Scottish town of Bonnybridge. In March 1992, Isabella Sloggett and her daughter Carol were walking towards Bonnybridge and saw a blue light hovering above the road in front of them. A UFO landed, and a door on the craft opened.
However, before Bonnybridge took hold in the press, there was the Robert Taylor Incident that took place in 1979 in the woods of Dechmont Law in the town of Livingston in the central belt of Scotland.[2] According to Taylor, a forestry worker for the Livingston Development Corporation, on 9 November 1979, he parked his pickup truck at the side of a road near the M8 motorway and walked along a forest path up the side of Dechmont Law with his dog.
Taylor reported seeing what he described as a "flying dome" or a large, circular sphere approximately 7 yards (6.4 metres) in diameter, hovering above the forest floor in a clearing about 530 yards (480 metres) away from his truck. Taylor described the object as "a dark metallic material with a rough texture like sandpaper" featuring an outer rim "set with small propellers". Even up to the time of his death, Taylor never changed his story.
On a more obscure historical note, you have the really weird stuff with the historical figure of Rev Robert Kirk, who was subject to visitations by "faeries"/non-human entities in Aberfoyle in Stirling in the year 1692.[3] Aberfoyle is right in the literal middle of the Falkirk Triangle.
Controversy of Councillor Billy Buchanan
Mr Billy Buchanan, an independent, represented Bonnybridge on Falkirk District Council and Central Regional Council since 1992.[4] He was central to bringing the UFO issue in Bonnybridge to the world. The stress of dealing with the Bonnybridge issue was so bad that he resigned from his job due to stress.[5]
References
- Bob Taylor (Obituary), The Telegraph 23 March 2007 (2008-04-06)
- Hunter, Michael (2001b). The Occult Laboratory: Magic, Science, and Second Sight in Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland. Boydell Press. ISBN 0-85115-801-3 Search this book on
.. - The Glasgow Herald; "UFO Councillor quits politics" 5th March 1996 https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12117986.ufo-councillor-quits-politics/
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