UFO Reports 2008

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This Ministry of Defence document is a table of UFO sighting reports it received during 2008. Each entry gives the date, time, town or village and area, with a short description of what was seen. Most describe orange or bright lights, orbs, triangles, discs and formations of lights across England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands. A later section lists reports that have no firm date, noting when each message was taken. The document gives no analysis or conclusions.

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p. 1 …They were very bright. They were hovering above some trees. The lights then moved towards the…
p. 2 …12-Mar-08 19:00 Portsmouth Hampshire Bright orange lights were seen, that were glowing bright…
p. 3 …06-Apr-08 22:15 Delabole Cornwall A bright orange light was seen. It started to…
p. 4 …19-May-08 22:45 Delabole Cornwall A very bright orange light, brighter than a star…
p. 5 …A bright, phosphorus white light fell from the orange light towards the ground, before disappearing. The…
p. 6 …West Yorkshire Five, bright, oval shaped orange lights. Three of the lights were in a group…
p. 7 …12-Jul-08 22:50 Horncastle Lincolnshire Eight circular large yellow, bright solid lights moving East…
p. 8 …24-Jul-08 22:15 Wellington Shropshire A really bright, burning orange light. The object was…
p. 9 …15-Aug-08 Not stated Burbage/Hinckley Leicestershire Two bright lights. It looked like a spectrum…
p. 10 …Initially, four circular bright lights were travelling in convoy. Two of the lights made a vertical…
p. 11 …03-Sep-08 20:20 Mannamead/Plymouth Devon A large, bright pink light. Was about a…
p. 12 …20-Sep-08 22:00 Calne Wiltshire Five super bright, glowing orange/pink orbs at low…
p. 13 …11-Oct-08 00:35 A12/Colchester Essex Two bright lights were flying Northbound, in line…
p. 14 …18-Oct-08 20:05 A259/Brighton East Sussex A bright spherical light was hovering above…
p. 15 …The lights were vertically spaced. Then another bright orange light came over. There was no noise…
p. 16 …24-Dec-08 19:50 Rottingdean East Sussex There were fifteen UFOs/bright lights coming down…
p. 17 …25-Dec-08 22:40 Carlisle Cumbria Four or five bright lights moving across sky north…
p. 18 …29-Dec-08 Not stated Farnworth Lancashire There was a large, bright orange light. There was…
p. 19 …Sussex There were twenty to thirty, bright orange lights, moving quite slowly from North to South…
p. 20 …No Firm Date Not stated Woodford Green Essex Four, bright orange lights were floating across the…
p. 21 …No Firm Date Not stated Lambeth London A stationary bright, white light in the sky, lower…
p. 22 …A light was hovering for ten minutes, showing off a very bright white light. Another object…
p. 23 …They looked like bright lights. The objects were hovering. There were a big group of lights…
p. 24 …No Firm Date 21:20 Brandiston/Norwich Norfolk Three bright single lights. They hovered for a…
p. 26 …No Firm Date Not stated Newtownhamilton County Down One circle of bright light. It was as…

UFO Reports 2008
Date Time Town / Village Area Occupation of reporter
(where relevant)
Brief Description of sighting
23-Aug-08 21:56 Darlington County Durham Two objects that both had two lights on them.
Each object was moving independently from
the other. There was no sound.
24-Aug-08 21:00 Emsworth Hampshire There was a bright yellow light in the sky. The
object was approximately 12,000 ft up.
24-Aug-08 21:30 South Malling/Lewes East Sussex Fifty nine lights in the sky that formed a 'V'
shape. There were a few lights on their own.
They were bright red and very big. They were
silent.
29-Aug-08 11:55 Westborough/Scarborough North Yorkshire A black rectangular object that was wobbling
in the sky. It then moved out of sight.
29-Aug-08 22:41 Oakworth/Keighley West Yorkshire A UFO. Was quite far away and too high to be
a plane.
30-Aug-08 17:40 Stroud Gloucestershire Six orb shaped objects that were red and
orange in colour. They initially formed a 'V'
shape. They were floating around and then
the central one zoomed off like the Captain
Kirk Enterprise.
30-Aug-08 21:41 Scholes/Holmfirth West Yorkshire There was a sighting of lights in the sky.
30-Aug-08 22:20 Whitburn/South Tyneside Tyne and Wear Sodium coloured lights were travelling North
West. Initially, four circular bright lights were
travelling in convoy. Two of the lights made a
vertical change of direction. One looked like a
bright orange orb.
30-Aug-08 23:00 Westborough/Scarborough North Yorkshire An orange circular shaped object.
31-Aug-08 21:35 Littlebourne Kent Three very low, very bright lights were
travelling in formation, then breaking off and
doing acrobatics. Then a large globe-like
object appeared and was changing colours in
a pulsating way.
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