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
29-Dec-08 Not stated Kettering Northamptonshire There were some large objects in the sky.
There was also a constant red light heading
West. The objects were bigger than a plane.
29-Dec-08 Not stated Farnworth Lancashire There was a large, bright orange light. There
was no sound. It moved slowly initially and
then there was rapid movement and it
disappeared out of sight.
31-Dec-08 21:00 No area given No area given Ball of fire sitting in the sky. Changed colour
from red to orange. Diamond shaped. Moved
up & down and backwards in circles and then
shot up and disappeared
31-Dec-08 Not Stated Brightlingsea Essex Police Officer Bright orange/yellow light in the sky. Quite
large, 1500-2000 ft up. Moved very slowly in a
half circle then stopped over the water
between Brightlingsea & East Mersea. Shot
straight up and dissappeared very fast.
No Firm Date 07:00 Beccles Suffolk A bright light was seen. While moving in a
Westerly direction, it started to change shape.
The light was on a constant course. (Message
taken 16 January 2008).
No Firm Date Not stated Cardiff West Glamorgan A UFO. (Message taken 10 January 2008).
No Firm Date Not stated Watchet Somerset An object moving across the sky. (Message
taken 21 January 2008).
No Firm Date 21:00 Burgess Hill West Sussex Fourteen orange lights came through the sky
in twos and then disappeared. (Message
taken 28 January 2008).
No Firm Date Not stated Chester Cheshire It was an unusual sighting of an object.
(Message taken 31 January 2008).
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