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
01-Sep-08 20:44 Rothwell/Leeds West Yorkshire An orb shaped object, with a disc shape
underneath, was in the sky for about ten to
fifteen minutes.
03-Sep-08 20:20 Mannamead/Plymouth Devon A large, bright pink light. Was about a
kilometre away. It was floating towards the left
and then accelerated and disappeared.
Looked like two small pieces came away from
it.
03-Sep-08 21:45 Urmston/Manchester Greater Manchester There were four separate lights. One of the
lights was huge, and it had different lights on
it.
04-Sep-08 22:30 Guildford Surrey A big, red diamond shaped object. There was
no sound.
04-Sep-08 22:40 Middlesbrough Middlesborough The craft had bright green lights and a blue
light that was moving quickly through the
trees. It was very large and was moving
extremely fast. It was silent.
06-Sep-08 20:03 Laindon Essex Two large orange lights in the sky, were flying
East rather quickly. One light flew around the
other one, then they both moved away North,
at a higher speed.
08-Sep-08 00:10 Near Blackpool Lancashire An object, the shape of a chewing gum pack,
black in colour and had three circles of lights
underneath it, emitting a dull orange light.
Was about 150 feet long and 50 feet wide.
13-Sep-08 04:53 Not stated Not stated There was quite a large flashing object, just
hanging in the air, quite high up. Underneath
the object was an orange/red luminating light.
14-Sep-08 01:07 High Wycombe Buckinghamshire A UFO.
19-Sep-08 20:44 Stoke on Trent Staffordshire An orange ball which looked like it came up
from the ground. It then shot up vertically into
the sky and disappeared.
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