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 20:00 Buckhurst Hill Essex Four very strange orange glow lights. They
were flying above the witness's house.
(Message taken 8 October 2008).
No Firm Date Not stated New Malden London Two strange objects in the sky. They were
together and then they followed each other.
(Message taken 10 October 2008).
No Firm Date Not stated Neath Neath & Port Talbot Three glowing objects. The objects were
moving towards the witness and then moved
straight up into the sky. (Message taken 14
October 2008).
No Firm Date Not stated Mumbles/Swansea Glamorgan A UFO. (Message taken 14 October 2008).
No Firm Date Not stated Frogmore/St Albans Hertfordshire A UFO. (Message taken 20 October 2008).
No Firm Date Not stated Redruth Cornwall They looked like flares or lights. They were
quite far in the distance and going quite fast.
(Message taken 28 October 2008).
No Firm Date 00:00 Bedstone/Bucknell Shropshire There was an orange light coming over the
hills. Another two approached. Then there
were eight orange lights in formation. They
were moving at the speed of a helicopter.
There was no noise at all. (Message taken 4
November 2008).
No Firm Date 21:20 Brandiston/Norwich Norfolk Three bright single lights. They hovered for a
short while. There was no sound. (Message
taken 4 November 2008).
No Firm Date Not stated Burnham on Sea Somerset A UFO. (Message taken 7 November 2008).
No Firm Date Not stated Folkestone Kent There were lights in the sky that were circling
in front of the witness's house. They were in a
half moon shape. (Message taken 13
November 2008).
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