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
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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