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
No Firm Date 22:25 Godalming Surrey A light similar to a street lamp. It was yellow
and the size of a football. It was flying through
the sky at varying speed. (Message taken 28
July 2008).
No Firm Date 21:21 Thorndon/Eye Suffolk Two UFOs. They were quite far away, high up
and moving quite fast. They looked like they
were tracking a passenger jet. (Message
taken 28 July 2008).
No Firm Date 01:45 Newport Gwent A single object. (Message taken 28 July
2008).
No Firm Date Not stated Gravesend Kent A light was hovering for ten minutes, showing
off a very bright white light. Another object
then joined it. They both went dim and
disappeared. (Message taken 30 July 2008).
No Firm Date 23:00 Northampton Northamptonshire An unusual sighting. (Message taken 4
August 2008).
No Firm Date Not stated Chard Somerset A sighting. (Message taken 4 August 2008).
No Firm Date Not stated Morley West Yorkshire Lights were seen. (Message taken 4 August
2008).
No Firm Date Not stated Brill/Aylesbury Buckinghamshire A UFO. (Message taken 8 August 2008).
No Firm Date Not stated Swansea Glamorgan A UFO. (Message taken 11 August 2008).
No Firm Date Not stated Not stated Highlands Three UFOs. They looked like red, light orb
things. The UFOs were coming from the East.
(Message taken 18 August 2008).
No Firm Date Not stated Cheshunt Hertfordshire Thirty orange lights were moving slowly
across the sky. The lights were a few hundred
feet up. They were moving in a straight line,
going slow. (Message taken - 28 Aug 2008).
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