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
25-Dec-08 20:20 Glasgow Strathclyde Six objects in two lines of three, one line
above the other. Emitted a very strong yellow
orange light before disappearing in the
distance to the west.
25-Dec-08 22:40 Carlisle Cumbria Four or five bright lights moving across sky
north of Carlisle. Orange in colour. Retained a
constant altitude then dissappeared from view
heading westwards.
26-Dec-08 02:30 Old Colwyn North wales Bigger than a helicopter, 250 metres up,
silent, with something like a bar coming off it.
30 seconds later flew off over the sea followed
closely by a helicopter
26-Dec-08 18:30 Southgate London There was a whole procession of lights in the
sky. Big eight orange balls with a red, flaming
triangle in the centre of all of them. There was
no noise.
26-Dec-08 19:00 Kennington/Ashford Kent Orange shape travelling NW to SW at fair
pace, 2000ft plus. Bright orange. Similar
shape to inverted light bulb. There was no
sound
26-Dec-08 Not stated Ilkley West Yorkshire Two parallel UFOs were seen.
26-Dec-08 Not stated Wymondham Norfolk Seven strange orange lights. Moving at great
speed. Appeared one by one and remained
stationary for 30 minutes before disappearing.
27-Dec-08 22:10 Morecambe Lancashire Unidentified objects in the sky.
27-Dec-08 Not stated Kensington London Two orbs, that were quite big, were seen
dropping through the sky and disappearing
behind some trees.
29-Dec-08 19:00 Loughton/Adbridge Essex Lights in groups of 3 or 4 but not in a line.
They weere an orange/yellow colour. Watched
for 30 minutes. They made no sound
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