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
07-Jun-08 23:00 Croydon London A strange object was seen in the sky. It was
around for several minutes, and then flew off.
07-Jun-08 23:00 Westbury/Shrewsbury Shropshire A UFO was seen.
07-Jun-08 23:00 Tern Hill Barracks Shropshire Thirteen craft were zig-zagging in the sky.
08-Jun-08 00:25 Middleton/Ilkley West Yorkshire There were five orange objects and then one
orange 'blob' came into view.
09-Jun-08 01:30 Norton/Stourbridge West Midlands An object that had a flat top and a rounded
bottom. It was roughly the width of a
combined semi detached house. There was a
dim humming sound.
10-Jun-08 23:30 Shortstown/Bedford Bedfordshire A big orange, saucer shaped floating thing
was in the sky. There were four flashing lights
on it. It was like a light show. They then
suddenly stopped flashing. This went on for
over two hours.
15-Jun-08 22:45 Waverton/Chester Cheshire A formation of eighteen lights. They appeared
like a 'flock of helicopters' with lights on. They
gave off no sound, but there was a slight
rattle.
17-Jun-08 Not stated New Forest Hampshire A UFO.
20-Jun-08 19:30 Thorne/Doncaster South Yorkshire A metallic, capsule shaped object. There was
no sound. The object was moving from South
East to North West, and was going quite fast
and didn't slow down at any point.
20-Jun-08 23:00 Kendal Cumbria There was a quite low, red and an orange
light. A bright, phosphorus white light fell from
the orange light towards the ground, before
disappearing. The red light was static
throughout the sighting.
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