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Twelve UFO sightings have been reported to West Midlands Police in the past four years, new figures show.

But the worried callers will have to wait a while longer to find out if we really are alone in the universe because none of the calls were investigated by officers.

Ten of the alerts involved objects seen in the sky, mostly at night, the Birmingham Mail reports.

Three reported seeing lights.

The figures, from a Freedom of Information Act request, were published on West Midlands Police’s website and covered the years 2013 to 2016.

Four calls came from Birmingham, and the rest from Sandwell, Coventry, Dudley, Solihull and Walsall.

Asked how many were investigated, the force said: “Based on the graded response/log none of the calls were investigated”.

No other details were available but Coventry has been a hotbed of potential UFO sightings over the years.

They range from a sighting of a massive tin-can shaped object with gold round the middle, to a glowing rocket steering upwards into the sky.

Many of the sightings come with video and pictures taken at the time.

And while they may not provide CONCLUSIVE proof of extraterrestrial intelligence targeting, the descriptions are certainly intriguing.

The most recent ‘close encounter’ came on August 22 at the University of Warwick.

The witness said: “I went for a short walk around 8.15pm behind my accommodation, i.e. Heronbank West, Heronbank, University of Warwick.

“While coming back, I happened to look at this glowing (because of the flame) cylindrical type object in the sky, steering upwards in a somewhat fast motion.

“I was able to take a picture of it. But when I started taking a video, my phones battery died. My first reaction to that was ‘clearly it’s not a shooting star’.

“It could be a rocket launch though. After gazing at it for about a minute, I walked inside my accommodation building.”

On May 13, another spotter saw seven circular objects above the city through binoculars - they then drew them out for Mufon.

Another sighting - again in Coventry - on March 15 involved ‘two bright lights which were ellipses initially but became circles’.

The witness reported: “I was standing outside work having just finished a shift. A storm had just passed over and a beautiful rainbow was showing. I was taking photos of the rainbow and didn’t actually notice the lights in the frame.

“I took a series of photos to catch as much of the rainbow as I could but after transferring to a memory chip I put them away and forgot about them. I was sorting through old memory chips a few days ago when I found these photos.

“The first one showed a couple of ellipses with what appeared to be a solid centre. This was at 15.24 GMT. The next photo showed two large balls of light low to the ground and apparently in front of the lamp post.

“The time of the photo was also 15.24 so the lights had moved very quickly.”