'Sleepy' village 90 minutes away from Manchester has become a UFO hotspot

Pretty cottages, a couple of pubs and a tea room - it sounds like any other village you’d come across in the beautiful Derbyshire Dales. Visitors to Bonsall, near Matlock, come to admire the gorgeous surroundings and enjoy a slice of quiet country life.

With a population of less than 1,000 and sitting on the border of the Peak District, the village has been described as “sleepy”. But this village has a rather intriguing secret.

Bonsall is in fact known for being a UFO sighting hotspot and the village even has connections with Hollywood and NASA. Derbyshire Live spoke to some of the residents about the Bonsall’s extra-terrestrial stories.

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One gentleman who has lived in Bonsall all his life claims that the UFO sightings were made up by a former pub landlord to drive business. The man said the landlord used to take tourists up onto the nearby moors on "UFO tours", whether this is true or not, the original sighting which put Bonsall on the map was definitely not from a pub landlord.

In 2001, housewife Sharon Rowlands reportedly sold footage she had captured of a flying saucer for £20,000 to a Hollywood producer. It is even said NASA officials asked to examine the tape as they believed it showed a similar type of craft once spotted by the space agency's cameras during the STS-75 Columbia Space Shuttle mission in early 1996

On top of Ms Rowland's footage, in the early 2000's 19 sightings of UFOs were reported. One woman reported seeing a "ball of fire" in the skies, another "two big, bright lights", and a man out walking his dog witnessed a "pink glow, vertically-shaped like a shoe box".

Whether these have any credibility that is up to