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The truth is out there – but don’t ask the police to investigate just yet.

Twelve UFO sightings have been reported to the West Midlands force in the past four years.

But the worried callers will have to wait a while longer to find out if we really are alone in the universe.

Because, perhaps unsurprisingly, none of the calls were investigated by officers.

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

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 the Midlands has been a hotbed of potential UFO sightings over the years.

In January 2015, the Birmingham UFO Group spoke to a mum from Selly Oak who recalled rushing into her three-year-old son’s bedroom to find him screaming: “Spaceman” repeatedly.

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Later, when shown a picture of a classic image of an alien with grey skin, a bulbous head and large eyes – known by researchers as a Grey – her son immediately repeated the same word and began crying.

In the Black Country , numerous sightings of a triangle-shaped UFO have been reported over Dudley.

Its most recent appearance was in Quarry Bank in 2011, when a man smoking in his garden saw a mysterious object with flashing lights - which was then chased away by another strange craft.

In Tipton in 2010, two young men saw an “amazing fast-moving and silent craft in the shape of a triangle fly across the sky at a mind-boggling speed.”

The object has also been spotted hovering over Dudley Castle and the Merry Hill Shopping Centre in Brierley Hill.

And in April, 2009, builders at West Midland Safari Park were stunned to see a UFO floating above them.

Market trader Michele Bardsley filmed mysterious lights over her home in Kingshurst, Solihull in May 2014.

She said the lights were “just hanging there” as she watched from the back door while having a cigarette break from decorating upstairs.

She filmed the lights on her phone and, when the footage was shown on her big TV screen, she could see much more activity among the cluster of UFOs, as some appeared, disappeared and suddenly zoomed.

In 2012 an off-duty police officer claimed he witnessed a UFO speeding across the sky near Birmingham Airport.

And in 2010, two fighter jets were filmed whizzing over the M5 in the West Midlands, apparently in pursuit of a UFO.

The term UFO was officially coined by the American air force in 1953.