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-Dec-08 21:30 Village of Llangwm Pembrokeshire A very bright light, which had a long white tail.
It then shot across the sky and the whole field
was lit up. The light then began to break up.
06-Dec-08 23:45 Stratford upon Avon Warwickshire An orange ball. The object was stationary for
about five minutes and then shot up into the
sky, and out of view. There was no sound.
10-Dec-08 15:49 Devizes Wiltshire A small, bright golden coloured orb. It flew
past and was very rapid and then it
disappeared.
18-Dec-08 Not stated Halesowen West Midlands A string of fifty to sixty lights were seen in the
sky.
21-Dec-08 17:30 Scunthorpe Lincolnshire A bright flashing "star" in South West sky. Too
bright for a star. Like a little fireball. It
repeatedly got bright and then died down.
Looked big but pretty far aware.
24-Dec-08 19:50 Rottingdean East Sussex There were fifteen UFOs/bright lights coming
down from the Downs. They were travelling at
very fast speeds.
24-Dec-08 20:00 Felixstowe Suffolk An orange/red ball shot into the sky from a
North Easterly direction. It travelled at terrific
speed climbing all the time, then faded and
disappeared. There was no noise.
24-Dec-08 21:40 High Wycombe Buckinghamshire There were fifteen lights moving across the
sky about half a mile away. They were red
and flickering. Then three lights formed a
triangle shape. They were moving horizontally
from left to right.
25-Dec-08 Not stated Perth Perthshire A UFO.
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