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
06-Nov-08 20:10 Rainham Kent A UFO, that looked like a yellowy light. The
object was quite near and fairly low down in
the sky. There was no sound.
07-Nov-08 19:30 Twyford train station Berkshire A flicker of light that seemed to jump a
considerable distance around the night sky. It
had lights that seemed to scroll from one side
to another.
12-Nov-08 17:23 Carlton nr Rothwell/Leeds West Yorkshire The objects looked like Chinese lanterns.
They were orange in colour and very bright.
The objects moved very fast and were
extremely manoeuvrable.
14-Nov-08 16:50 Kirton nr Boston Lincolnshire There were twelve lights in the sky. The lights
started to fade and then two more brighter
lights came towards the first twelve. They
were not in any formation.
15-Nov-08 21:20 East Grinstead West Sussex Two very bright orange lights were travelling
from West to East. The lights were vertically
spaced. Then another bright orange light
came over. There was no noise.
16-Nov-08 18:55 Keighley West Yorkshire Two objects.
21-Nov-08 23:30 Stickford/Boston Lincolnshire A cloud type dull light with no noise. 100ft-
200ft from the witness's house. Was moving
in an arc continuously at speed, from left to
right.
22-Nov-08 Not stated Jersey Channel Islands A UFO.
25-Nov-08 17:10 Shrewsbury Shropshire A strange triangular shape in the sky, with the
apex to the right. Metallic grey in colour, but
the flat base end seemed to glow orange.
Must have been at least fifteen feet long and
ten feet wide.
26-Nov-08 Not stated Cheadle/Stoke on Trent Staffordshire A UFO was flying through the sky.
01-Dec-08 18:50 Wettenhall/Winsford Cheshire A crest shaped object moving to the South
East at the rear of the witness's property.
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