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 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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