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
19-May-08 02:30 Rhydwyn/Caergybi Isle of Anglesey A round, bright white object. It was moving
from SW to NE, and moved slowly and
quietly.
19-May-08 22:45 Delabole Cornwall Three objects were seen travelling from South
East to North West.
19-May-08 22:45 Delabole Cornwall A very bright orange light, brighter than a star,
three objects were sighted together. They
accelerated over the sea.
31-May-08 22:00 Leeds West Yorkshire Two bright lights were moving fast from West
to East. They were at typical jet height. They
then went behind trees and just disappeared.
31-May-08 23:09 Stranraer Dumfries & Galloway A bright orange object. It was heading in a
South Easterly direction.
31-May-08 23:20 Millbrook/Torpoint Cornwall A very bright light zig zagged across the sky
southwards, until it vanished.
01-Jun-08 22:30 Worthing West Sussex At first, there was one light like a star, which
was white with a tint of orange, and then
another moving light appeared. They were
travelling in a slightly Westerly, slightly
Southerly direction. They travelled in a perfect
straight line.
02-Jun-08 20:30 Stroud Gloucestershire A sighting of something.
05-Jun-08 00:55 Tonbridge Kent An object was flying around in circles at
aeroplane level and sounded like an industrial
train. There was a strange flashing on the
object.
06-Jun-08 22:59 Godrer Aran/Llanuwchllyn Gwynedd Two orange lights were seen. They were fast
moving. One moved to the East to Bala and
the other one climbed vertically.
07-Jun-08 00:30 Heathrow Middlesex Twenty five amber lights were seen leaving
the Heathrow area. They were travelling West
at 45 degrees, 200-300 knots.
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