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
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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