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Unidentified Flying Objects have been spotted over Scotland for years and Glasgow locals got very excited when a mysterious flashing figure lit up the sky earlier this month.

Despite nay sayers dismissing the intergalactic space crafts things as drones, comets, airplanes or satellites, the public love a good conspiracy theory, so we've compiled a list of the top 10 UFO sightings in Scotland.

10: Glasgow, 2009

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In at number 10 is this effort from Glasgow.

A seasoned Glaswegian stargazer, who regularly surveys the heavens through his telescope and binoculars, spotted something very out of the ordinary back in August 2009.

He was examining the skies with his binoculars, when he saw a perfect cube appear, move, accelerate backwards and then disappear.

The spotter said: "I saw a perfect cube appear right before my eyes! I was looking at Zubeneschamali, which is the beta star in Libra, when the cube just came out of nowhere

"Speechless, I quickly spotted it with the binoculars, through which I saw a brilliant perfect cube with an illuminated border.

"It changed colour from blue to aqua-green and stopped cold."

Record Verdict: He talks a good game, but the photo quality lets this entry down.

9: Bannockburn, 2017

(Image: Stirling Observer)

A Bannockburn woman who spotted a UFO flying over the town says she has been left unable to sleep at night.

The 42-year old contacted the Stirling Observer to detail her jaw-dropping sighting in Hillpark, Bannockburn.

She said: “The size of it was unreal. It was about 20ft away from and I’d say it was about 100ft in diameter.

“I love looking at the sky, I do it all the time.

“For about a week, I could see lights in the sky. I could see that it had windows and had red lights flashing.

“Even if it was a military thing, why was it coming down a quiet street?

“I know it sounds crazy, but I would say it was a spaceship.

“I thought it was an aeroplane at first but when it tilted forwards it was a circular shape.

“I could see writing on the top of it as well, like Egyptian hieroglyphs.

“It has been a few sleepless nights for me since it.

“I was kind of in to UFOs and that sort of thing a bit before.

“When I saw it in between the two houses, I had to run in to the house because I was a bit scared.

“I went back out for another look and it wasn’t moving very fast and there was no noise coming from it.”

Record verdict: Top marks for the Egyptian hieroglyphs, but this picture is far too unclear to be certain of a UFO sighting.

8: Shetland, 2013

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Joiner Steven Slane, 41, works for oil and gas company Petrofac at the Sutton Voe Oil terminal in the Shetlands.

Steven took the pictures on the afternoon of January 27, 2013 and couldn’t believe his eyes when he looked at them later that night.

He said: “I’d taken the pictures earlier it the day because I saw some nice scenery as I was coming along the road from Southern Voe towards Southerness and the sun was setting.

“It looked very nice so, even although it was very cold, I just stopped and took a couple of photographs in quick succession.

“It was only late on in the evening when I was having a wee look at the photos that I noticed something different in the second picture.

“I was a bit surprised and shocked when I noticed the strange shape.

“It looked like there was something flying up with a propeller at the bottom, in the shape of an inverted Eiffel Tower or a parachute. It must have appeared in seconds, or even less.”

He added: “I didn’t know what the heck it was and although I don’t believe in aliens or UFOs, I was a bit freaked by it and thought there was something strange.

“It would be good to find out more about it, if anyone has any ideas.”

Record Verdict: I don't think that's a UFO, Steven. It looks like a cloud.

7: Irvine, 2016

(Image: Heather Stewart)

Mystery still shrouds an unusual object spotted in Irvine's skies in October 2016.

The image of the UFO taken by a Bourtreehill resident has led to a hoard of online speculation as to what the object could be.

Heather Stewart, 35, said: "You just sort of dismiss it at first but I looked out and I couldn’t believe it. It was like a big moving fireball.

“But after seeing it, I went to see if there were any plane crashes or anything like that and I’ve been looking on the internet as to what it could have been.”

Record Verdict: That looks a lot like a Chinese lantern, Heather.

6: Hamilton, 2015

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The Hamilton UFO was spotted at 6.35pm on July 13 last year.

The picture was taken from a car and appears to show two strange white objects floating in the sky.

The uploader simply said: “Was driving when uncle told me he could see UFOs.”

They have not said which road they were driving on but it appears to be a main road passing a wooded area of the town.

Record Verdict: It looks like the UFO has got its full beams on in the middle of the day.

5: Glasgow, 2009

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This picture was uploaded after a sighting on Christmas day 2009.

The spotter says they were with a friend in a town near Glasgow and walking towards a residential area when a round, glowing object overhead began moving rapidly towards them.

They say it moved too fast to be a Chinese Lantern and was not a star or a comet.

They posted to MUFON: "It was like nothing we had seen. Much too big to be a star, definitely not a comet, too fast to be a Chinese lantern.

"As it became closer overhead it slowed down and descended before ascending very rapidly and vanishing into the clouds.

"We were both quite scared by it and shaking a little, even though we did not see it close up we both thought because of the direction and speed it was going it may land on top of us.

"We uploaded the photographs that were taken to our computer and they turned out pretty blurry, mainly because the zoom on the camera was not so good and possibly because of the speed of the object.

'It was not a windy evening, quite still and the object made no noise, and had no wings or anything like that."

Record Verdict: This looks like the planet Mars. It's probably tthe planet Mars.

4: Glasgow, 2018

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In at number four is our most recent sighting.

Ian Andrew, who filmed the object told the Record: "I noticed it a few nights last week and again at 1am this morning.

"Where I stay the view of Glasgow is tremendous. I spotted the red and green light in the sky. Its not flying about, it's just hovering.

"As soon as I saw it I felt like I had to film it because I no idea what it could be.

"It's only when you zoom right in you can see how it doesn't look like a plane or anything. I knew it was something that didn't look right.

"I don't think its a drone as its too high, its very high in the sky. I thought it was something to do with measuring the weather, but its been there off and on for a couple of days.

"I'm not interested in space I don't even watch Superman or anything.

"My girlfriend was here and she saw it too, I was a bit shocked to be honest."

Record Verdict: That looks like a satellite to me, Ian.

3: Loch Lomond, 2015

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Now we're into the proper stuff.

This video, which was uploaded on to YouTube last week by Tom Hall, shows a bright white light moving very slowly above the treeline and hills for around 15 minutes.

The bright object can be seen hovering above the horizon before slowly descending towards the right.

Tom, who captured the light in Kinlochard in the Trossachs, said he didn't believe the object to be a plane, helicopter or a Chinese lantern and there was no noise throughout the encounter.

Record Verdict: It's the closest we've come so far, but could it be a drone?

2: Moray Firth, 2016

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Reg Connon uploaded some pictures from Macduff on the Moray Firth coast, and asked "Last night about 10pm dot in the sky - any ideas what it is?"

The (more than 120) answers he got ranged from an aeroplane reflecting the sun to a passing International Space Station, aliens landing in a UFO and even Superman.

Some thought it was a meteor and others blamed a 'second coming'.

The most plausible explanation came from Steve Balfour, who worked out which plane it could have been.

Record Verdict: This was a very good effort, until Steve Balfour gave us a very good alternative to aliens.

1: Loch Ness, 2015

Call off the search, we have found real-life UFOs, and they were trying to rescue Nessie.

It all makes sense now.

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Stunned Alan Betts was on holiday with his wife, Anna, and her parents when the group captured this extraordinary image of two mysterious disc-shaped objects flying over the famous freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands.

The picture was taken by Anna's mum Tatiana, but it wasn't until Alan and his wife returned to their home in York and started looking through their holiday snaps that the bewildered couple discovered the strange white shapes hovering over the loch.

Alan, 48, who is the director of a refrigeration company based in Bradford, said he was usually very sceptical about UFOs but couldn't offer an explanation for the spooky picture.

He said: "Our Akita dog, Yuka, was strangely unsettled that night, he never barks but I remember we were laughing at the time saying that he'd seen Nessie because he was looking outside from the cottage window and barking at the sky.

"We couldn't see anything at that time though.

"We had been very lucky with the weather and were stunned with the view we had, it was almost constant sunshine but then that day, when we got back to the cottage after a day of sightseeing, the weather suddenly changed.

"We'd not seen it change that quickly before, which is why my mother-in-law went outside to take a general landscape picture.

"After the holiday we were looking through the pictures on our PC, as they were taken on a digital camera.

"On the PC screen the resolution was better and then we saw the objects when we zoomed in.

"We were in shock.

"I can't offer any logical explanation, I am probably one of the most sceptical people you could find about things like this but I just can't explain what it is. I know what it looks like though.

"We showed the pictures to Anna's parents who were as shocked as us - and her dad is probably more sceptical than me."

Record Verdict: Aliens. No doubt about it.