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 23:00 Southport Merseyside Flying objects. They looked like bright lights.
The objects were hovering. There were a big
group of lights and they were in a half circle
formation. (Message taken - 1 Sep 2008).
No Firm Date 22:10 Woodhatch/Reigate Surrey Four UFOs in the sky. They were quite near,
as they flew above the witness's house.
(Message taken - 1 Sep 2008).
No Firm Date 22:30 Little Steeping/Spilsby Lincolnshire Exceedingly large light. It was moving back
and forth across the sky. Then a group of
lights appeared. They were high up above the
clouds. (Message taken 5 Sep 2008).
No Firm Date Not stated Ramsbottom/Bury Greater Manchester A UFO. (Message taken 5 September 2008).
No Firm Date 23:00 Haverfordwest Pembrokeshire A UFO. (Message taken 8 September 2008).
No Firm Date 17:30 Rickmansworth Hertfordshire Objects flying across the sky. (Message taken
17 September 2008).
No Firm Date Not stated Enfield Greater London Five orange balls in the sky. (Message taken
15 September 2008).
No Firm Date Not stated Stoke on Trent Staffordshire Something strange in the sky. (Message
taken 17 September 2008).
No Firm Date 21:30 Isle of Dogs London A load of orange lights in formation. (Message
taken 22 September 2008).
No Firm Date Not stated Middlesbrough Middlesborough A UFO. (Message taken 29 September 2008).
No Firm Date Not stated St Peter Jersey A UFO. (Message taken 17 September 2008).
No Firm Date Not stated Belfast County Antrim The ships/UFOs were over the witness's
house, various times this year. He also saw
the greys. (Message taken 2 October 2008).
No Firm Date 19:55 Sopley/Christchurch Dorset One hundred possible UFOs in the sky.
(Message taken 8 October 2008).
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