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
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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