DOZENS of UFOs have been reported to Humberside Police over the last three years.
These include suspicious aircraft, flying saucers and strange glowing lights.
Six were reported by officers to the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
However, not all were taken seriously. One person rang to report "blue lights going across the sky" over Ferriby.
But an officer told the caller that the sightings were in fact searchlights from Hull Fair when the call was made on October 10 2009.
A man called police to report a UFO which he described as "a light in the sky, which looks like a helicopter light that is static in the sky" on January 18 2009.
Officers informed the MoD, but the caller later rang back to admit he had discovered it was the planet Venus.
Another caller, who stated he saw something suspicious "travelling quite fast which looked like a bit of debris on fire", was told his sighting was probably a firework, given that he was calling two days before Bonfire Night in 2008.
In total, there were 26 reports of UFOs to the police from 2008 to 2010, figures released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal.
There were three reports of UFOs which police explained as Chinese lanterns.
However, the MoD was informed after a caller reported 17 unidentified red and green-lit objects above Leven, near Beverley, heading towards Catwick, one by one at night.
The woman and her partner said they saw a further seven objects come from the village and disappear into the clouds, on August 1, 2009.
In the early hours the next day, a "very bright light, bigger than any star in the sky" was reported by a different caller heading from Beverley town centre to Manor Park.
The following night, a shape similar to an aeroplane "but squarer" was reported flying very low in west Hull travelling towards Princes Avenue.
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