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
18-Mar-08 19:30 Dundee Tayside There was a very bright orange sphere in the
sky. It was acting strange and appearing and
disappearing.
23-Mar-08 00:15 & 01:20 Leeds West Yorkshire Circular objects seen over Leeds.
28-Mar-08 20:20 Rainham Kent A huge disc shaped object. Approximately
twenty times the size of an aeroplane. It had
five or six flashing lights on the underneath in
a circular shape.
06-Apr-08 22:15 Delabole Cornwall A bright orange light was seen. It started to
move backwards, up and down and then
started to wobble to and fro, very fast. It faded
away, as though it was moving into the
distance.
13-Apr-08 21:30 Newington Edinburgh Ten to fifteen lights in groups of twos and
threes, moving across the sky very slowly in
an Easterly direction.
15-Apr-08 Not stated Bisley Gloucestershire A UFO.
16-Apr-08 20:30 Haslemere Surrey Two cylindrical objects, each with a red light.
They were silent and one was moving in front
of the other. They were moving at helicopter
speed.
29-Apr-08 01:05 Exeter Devon A UFO was flying around and looked like it
was having trouble keeping in control. It
looked like it was going at about 250 miles per
hour.
04-May-08 Not stated Delabole Cornwall Lights were seen in the sky, that were flying
up in a straight line. They were completely
silent.
04-May-08 23:10 Not stated Not stated A UFO.
05-May-08 00:02 M6 Motorway West Midlands The witness saw a fast moving green object,
whilst driving on the M6 Motorway.
11-May-08 14:00 West Wycombe/H Wycombe Buckinghamshire There was a black object in the sky. It then
turned on it's end, and disappeared.
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