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 19:15 Dover Kent There were half a dozen glowing lights. They
were an orange fire colour and were globular.
They were silent. Were moving across the sky
at the speed of a helicopter. (Message taken
13 November 2008).
No Firm Date 20:18 East Stoke/Wareham Dorset A pretty unusual sighting. (Message taken 20
November 2008).
No Firm Date Not stated Wellingborough Northamptonshire A UFO. (Message taken 20 November 2008).
No Firm Date Not stated Redditch Worcestershire Something that looked like a helicopter
spotlight was 500/600ft high in the sky.
Looked like there was a fire beneath the craft.
There was no engine noise at all. It was
moving about 60-80 miles per hour. (Message
taken 20 November 2008).
No Firm Date Not stated Poole Dorset A UFO flew across the sky. (Message taken
25 November 2008).
No Firm Date Not stated Ladbroke Grove London Eight UFOs shaped like arrow heads in the
sky. They were orange/reddish in colour.
There was no sound. They were quite high up
in the sky. (Message taken 26 November
2008).
No Firm Date Not stated Todmorden West Yorkshire One very round, yellowy light moving across
the sky. It seemed to be moving vertically
from the valley floor. It then moved across the
sky. Was totally silent. (E-mail - November
2008).
No Firm Date 23:20 Middlewich Cheshire An object was travelling through the sky,
inside the atmosphere. (Message taken 8
December 2008).
No Firm Date Not stated Not stated Buckinghamshire Ten unidentified flying objects in the sky.
(Message taken 8 December 2008).
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