Nestled in the Pennines is the small market town of Todmorden. This industrial town made its name in the cotton trade and reached its peak during the Industrial Revolution. In recent years, though, it’s not the town’s industrious history that’s got tongues wagging, but rather the fact that it has become a hotbed of UFO sightings.

This rather strange claim to fame started in 1980 when the body of coalminer Zigmund Adamski, from the nearby town of Tingley, was discovered on a pile of coal in…