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
23-Jul-08 21:00 Sutton-In-Craven/Keighley West Yorkshire Two bright balls of light. One of the balls
looked like it was chasing and trying to
overtake an aircraft. The other ball just burst
as it was moving and disappeared.
24-Jul-08 22:15 Wellington Shropshire A really bright, burning orange light. The
object was going at the speed of a helicopter.
25-Jul-08 Not stated Telford Shropshire A UFO.
26-Jul-08 Not stated Northampton Northamptonshire Eight strange lights.
26-Jul-08 Not stated Bristol Avon A group of lights in a cluster. More lights
gradually joined them. Several lights were
moving across the sky. More lights joined
them and both sets then disappeared.
26-Jul-08 Not stated Farnham Surrey Two, red round lights. The objects were
moving across the sky in different directions
and then just disappeared.
26-Jul-08 22:00 Gosport Hampshire A silent aircraft passed overhead. It was
clearly visible like a shooting star, but with a
smooth curving course.
27-Jul-08 Not stated Scunthorpe Lincolnshire Oval shaped, weird light in the sky. The object
moved from right to left and was moving in a
Westerly direction.
27-Jul-08 Not stated Helston Cornwall A mysterious sight in the night sky.
27-Jul-08 Not stated Shirley West Midlands A triangle shaped object, which had three
white lights and one red light. There was no
noise.
27-Jul-08 02:00 No area given Not stated An object moved slowly at about 2,000 ft,
raised vertically, then moved slowly away.
27-Jul-08 16:30 Pontypridd Mid Glamorgan An object was travelling at high speed. It
appeared to be round like a football. It was
travelling from South East to North East. It
then disappeared.
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