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 …09-Feb-08 22:40 Ashton Keynes Wiltshire There were ten to twenty, bright orange lights…
p. 2 …27-Feb-08 Not stated Portsmouth Hampshire A bright orange light appeared. Bigger than a helicopter…
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 …27-Jun-08 23:45 Inverness Inverness-shire One brilliant orange light. Then five orange lights…
p. 7 …12-Jul-08 23:30 Oxted Surrey Ninety orange lights were in a V or S…
p. 8 …24-Jul-08 22:15 Wellington Shropshire A really bright, burning orange light. The object was…
p. 9 …11-Aug-08 22:05 Larkhall Lanarkshire One single round light. It was orange/red in…
p. 10 …Two of the lights made a vertical change of direction. One looked like a bright orange…
p. 11 …06-Sep-08 20:03 Laindon Essex Two large orange lights in the sky, were flying…
p. 12 …lights. They were in separate formations, all in straight lines. They were a funny orange colour…
p. 13 …a continual orange, strange shape in the sky. There was a very odd light too. 13
p. 14 …Was orange in colour and looked illuminated. It had a rear, bright white light. It made…
p. 15 …The lights were vertically spaced. Then another bright orange light came over. There was no noise…
p. 16 …The light then began to break up. 06-Dec-08 23:45 Stratford upon Avon Warwickshire…
p. 17 …Emitted a very strong yellow orange light before disappearing in the distance to the west. 25…
p. 18 …29-Dec-08 Not stated Farnworth Lancashire There was a large, bright orange light. There was…
p. 19 …No Firm Date Not stated Bristol Avon and Somerset Fleets of orange lights were moving across…
p. 20 …No Firm Date Not stated Woodford Green Essex Four, bright orange lights were floating across the…
p. 21 …No Firm Date 00:20 Ipswich Suffolk A silent orange light. The light was moving faster…
p. 22 …No Firm Date Not stated Cheshunt Hertfordshire Thirty orange lights were moving slowly across the sky…
p. 23 …No Firm Date 21:30 Isle of Dogs London A load of orange lights in formation…
p. 24 …No Firm Date 00:00 Bedstone/Bucknell Shropshire There was an orange light coming over the…
p. 25 …were half a dozen glowing lights. They were an orange fire colour and were globular. They…
p. 26 …No Firm Date 19:00 Hainault Essex Groups of 3 lights like an orange street light…

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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