!-Update-! 2008 was an endless array of sightings reports and tabloid press amazement at the sheer volume of seemingly authentic sightings. Various forms of orange orbs seems to have been the main object seen and filmed but party goers releasing Chinese lanterns added a degree of fog to the topic. One thing was clear - the global media seemed to suddenly stop feeling they had to ridicule the phenomena and actually covered the sightings pretty well. This site had over 50 comments on this issue alone.
Global and even financial press are reporting on the huge rate of reported UFO sightings over England and the UK mainland as a whole. In one of the more significant - objects were sighted over a military base by a soldier who described "rotating cubes with multiple colours".
Elsewhere the English Midlands seems to have taken the lead for the flap or hotspot area so far from previously record holding areas such as West Yorkshire and Bonnybridge, Scotland. Objects were seen and reported in Bromsgrove [Worcestershire], Shropshire, and Nottingham. These sightings follow the recent close encounter with a police helicopter in Wales.
Whist exopolitics tends to deal with issues beyond UFO sightings, the
reports can provide a kind of 'thermostat' effect for the extent of:
individual sightings and flaps
national or regional hotspots or possible portals
public awareness and response
media awareness and response
government and/or military response
New:: Watch the UK special video about the 'summer of the saucers'
A few cases from 2007 as well as videos examing sightings reports can be found here.
Google's news facility offered 167 news items for June 2008 alone on "UK, England, UFO, Sighting" at 27th June.
In addition the following list covers May-June 2008 - taken from UFOinfo
A SHAKEN soldier told last night how he saw THIRTEEN UFOs spinning in the
skies above his military barracks.
Sighting ... unexplained Cylinders
He was among three squaddies who spotted the objects while out on night
patrol.
He filmed them on his mobile phone and reported the close encounter to Army
top brass.
Mystery ... UFO seen on soldier's video
Ministry of Defence experts were studying his report and video yesterday —
after ordering the soldier and his pals NOT to say anything else
about the incident.
The sighting, near Market Drayton, Shrops, came two hours before helicopter
police officers reported an encounter with a huge craft 80 miles away near
Cardiff.
Yesterday further mind-boggling evidence emerged as dog walker Bonnie Lewis,
29, told how she filmed seven UFOs at Bromsgrove, Worcs, last Friday.
The soldier recalled how he saw the amazing “craft” just after 11pm on
Saturday, June 7.
Sky lights ... strange shapes seen by Bonnie
He said: “I was on duty in the guard room when the other boys outside began
shouting. I went out to see what the commotion was about and could see
thirteen craft in the skies.
“They were zig-zagging, but I filmed two before they disappeared. They were
like rotating cubes with multiple colours.
“I made a full report to my commanding officers and gave them my footage. The
other lads were as amazed by it as I was.”
Astonishing ... map indicating UFO discoveries
Soldiers walking near their base were astonished to see a fleet of UFOs.
A 19-year-old private on patrol said he also saw the “fleet”.
The soldier, who asked not to be named, said: “I saw these things flying in
the sky and I told my guard commander.
“There were about 30 lights passing over for a few minutes, very high but not
at a great speed. They were bright red. Another soldier saw them too.”
An MoD spokesman said: “We deal with any UFO sightings to see if there was a
military threat.”
Cabaret duo Katy Cunnion and Russell Quinn claimed they were pursued by the
light in the sky for nearly an hour at 1am the following morning.
And last night Bonnie told of seeing cylinder-shaped craft.
She said: “They weren’t from this world. They made no sound and had flashing
dots inside.”
Two more colleagues also spot the startling “fleet” above Shropshire’s Tern
Hill barracks. Just hours later, three South Wales helicopter police
officers watch in awe as a huge object rises from the ground to meet them as
they land near Cardiff.
The crew log the incident with their superiors. Less than an hour later, two
cabaret performers report a strange light in the sky near Shrewsbury.
Expert: Official inquiry is vital
UFO expert Nick Pope studied The Sun’s amazing footage last night and said:
“Now there HAS to be an official inquiry.”
Nick, who spent three years as official UFO investigator at the Ministry of
Defence, said after viewing film shot by soldiers in Shropshire: “The MoD
and Civil Aviation Authority need to look at this.
“They need to interview witnesses, analyse the film and check both civil and
military radar to see if any unusual activity was logged.
“An important factor is that this was shot from a military base — and the
military tend to make good witnesses.
“This object seems to be pulsing through virtually the entire spectrum and
that’s unusual. It’s not something an ordinary aircraft or satellite would
do, and it’s too slow to be a meteor or a shooting star.”
UFO Over UK Cathedral Causes Power Cuts
A slightly luminous, grey UFO was reported to police last Saturday night
in the historic town of Edmunds St Bury in the county of Suffolk, just
outside London, England.
The UFO was seen spinning and hovering over the St Edmundsbury Cathedral by a townsman.
The UFO was also seen by a staff member of the Cathedral.
Sarah
Friswell, the Cathedrals visitor officer, noted that the topic of the
mysterious craft had come up in a staff meeting, and one of the staff
members confessed to also witnessing the rather clear UFO of a very
‘Classical’ appearance.
The cathedral's visitor officer Sarah
Friswell said: “I mentioned it at our staff meeting yesterday and a
member of staff did see 'it' as well. But I have to say no-one else has
commented or 'phoned or mentioned it.
“It happened in between two short power cuts, so we wondered if it was linked to that.”
Large Spinning Object
A
police spokeswoman said: “We received a report at 10:43 pm on Saturday
from a gentleman who said he'd seen a large object spinning in the sky
for around 10 to 12 minutes, which looked like a UFO. This was the only
report received."
The apparent sighting comes just four months after similar reports of a UFO above the town's Mildenhall and Howard estates.
Eyewitnesses
told how, on September 3, they saw an object at about 9.30pm spinning
and tilting above houses and appeared to change color.
The
sighting was accompanied by unusual power cuts, confirmed by the
Cathedral administration. The blackout could not be explained by the
local electricity provider.
The town is historically
significant. It is said to be the place where the idea of the Magna
Carta was born--a birthplace of modern democracy. The town is also the
burial place of a number of ancient Saxon Kings, and was once regarded
as a place of miracles. Overall Edmunds St Bury is regarded as one of
the UK's great historic towns.
WORCESTERSHIRE has been described as the perfect place to see UFOs,
after a dog walker spotted mysterious objects flying over Bromsgrove.
Bonnie Lewis filmed seven shapes – which made no sound and flashed different colours – in the sky at 10pm on Friday.
The 29-year-old from Tamworth initially thought that they were
satellites, but a UFO expert believes they could well be from another
world.
Michael Soper, of Contact International UFO Research, studied the
film stills and said: “The fact that they are cylindrical and vertical
in the sky, and moving in quite distinct patterns, indicates they are
of more interest than globe-shaped dots often seen.”
Mr Soper has been collating information on UFOs since he saw a silver disc above the Malvern Hills in 1960.
He said the lights over Bromsgrove were definitely not sky
lanterns, the large paper lanterns that are popular at weddings, and he
was keen to find out more.
Although a spokesman for Webbs garden centre, in nearby Wychbold,
said staff had not noticed any unusual objects that night, Mr Soper
said Worcestershire was “one of the top places” to see UFOs.
He said: “The Malvern Hills are ideal. There’s a wonderful area to the west of the Beacon where there’s a line of cottages.
“It’s an absolutely brilliant spot with the clear air coming over
from Wales, which has yet to be polluted, and the fine weather that the
line of the hills creates.
“Sightings there can be extraordinarily good.
“I wish people who are walking on the hills would report more things. They seem to be quite shy.”
Your Worcester
News
has reported several sightings over the years: In January 1997 Connie
Clark, of Ontario Close, Lower Wick, saw a fiery red streak moving in a
long sloping arc across the sky in the direction of Evesham before
splitting in two.
The same year, dozens of people called the Worcester News with reports of an orange ball streaking across the sky in Drakes
Broughton before exploding.
In August 1998 a crop circle mysteriously appeared in field in
Astley, and in 2003 Daphne Wright watched a cloud of red lights hover
above her home in The Hill Avenue, Battenhall, for almost an hour
Even Australia are reporting:
UFO sightings spark alien invasion fears
15:00 AEST Thu Jun 26 2008
Alarmed UK citizens convinced they saw an armada of UFOs in the sky have flooded radio stations with their calls of distress.
Hundreds of people witnessed strange orange orbs hover over Liverpool, north England, on Monday, British tabloid The Sun reports.
The sightings prompted widespread speculation about the possiblity of an alien invasion.
Former policeman Steve Rafferty, 50, and his daughter Emma, convinced
they were having a close encounter, filmed the unexplained phenomena on
a mobile phone.
Another witness suggested the "alien craft" appeared to be scouting for a place to land, the newspaper reported.
The sightings came as three soldiers reported seeing UFOs spinning over an army base in Shropshire, in the west of the country.
The 13 flying objects were captured on film and are now reportedly being investigated by army officials.
Errors in some sightings reports are most definately down to these things [take note at weekends please if you're thinking of sending in one of the many pictures we get a month -time is precious!].
The Sun loves covering these sort of stories because they've learned that there is significant demand. Interestingly the ridicule and little green men factor has reduced significantly over the last couple of years... they had to add an inset comedy image here thoug - if it's not this it's X-Files theme music in the background.
Did a UFO hit this wind-turbine in Lincolnshire? - January 2009
A theory as to the 'octopus tenticles seen emanating from an object around the time of the incident can be read in a recent update article.
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80"orange balls of light" at Sunday, 27 December 2009 23:25by nikki
my partner saw 2 orange lights moving across the sky christmas eve (2009). I have just returned from walking the dog and seen 3 of the same while out! 27/12. from west to east they travelled slowly and steadily. as one dissapeared another appeared and then again. 10pm across weymouth dorset. facinating
79"xmas day storrington" at Saturday, 26 December 2009 21:37by David
on emas day at about 19.00 pm while walking my dog i saw an orange light like a ball of flame , about a mile high approx , it bobbled slightly from left to right but maintained its height ,after a few mins it begain to move slowly away occassionally appearing to stop ,but all its movements were calm, no noise at all and no other lights after about 5 mins it was just like a dot , did anyone else see this over storrington west sussex which was moving towards ashington horsham direction others must have seen this , its not the first one i have seen i must add .
78"GATESHEAD UFO" at Thursday, 16 July 2009 13:41by Darren
might 1 just say that on the 24 december 2008 at about 11:30pm i saw what appeared to be a ufo.it was an orange ball with no sound.when i first saw it i said to my partner (hey theres Santa).when i realized it wasnt him i watched it for about 15 minutes.unfortunatly i didnt get any pics or vids of it as my camera died on me(nothing to do with ufo btw).it was quite far away but noticed the patern or path it was taking.it was heading straight toward me(not letraly)but noticed that it was accending upwards when i watched it closly.i wasnt scared at first but when i noticed it was moving upward i got a bit shaken.my partner seen it too but she thinks its all mad and im crazy.i want to know if anyone else has seen this exact ufo over the river tyne near scotswood.i have to find someone who has seen it as i still pear the skys to this day wanting to see more of the truth.thank you in advance if any help comes my way.
77"manchester UFO's" at Friday, 03 April 2009 23:40by Heidi
3 april 2009, my partner and i saw 2 orange glowing orbs in the sky over rochdale, greater manchester, england, one going upwards and 1 going downwards. anyone else seen it?
76"Orange lights" at Thursday, 22 January 2009 18:43by Baz
@Sean nope... Glo Lanterns rise and move across the sky slowly... I can't speak for everyone but if you take the time to properly read my post you would notice that something completely different is being described!
75"Orange Balls" at Monday, 19 January 2009 18:23by Sean
They are called Glo-Lanterns and can be bought from many sources for £2 - £3 each. Great fun, especially when they provoke these ooh ahh alien tales. There are some very gullible folk about
74"Orange lights" at Sunday, 18 January 2009 19:18by Baz
Over Magilligan on 17/1/09 at about 15.10 My mate and I saw 5 or 6 orange lights diving down out of the clouds at high speed then seemed to hover for a bit before fading and disappearing.... Never seen anything like it very very strange!
73"Admin" at Thursday, 15 January 2009 03:12by davID
Article with technical explanation for the 'octopus' effect mentioned by the wind turbine witnesses can be seen here:
72"5 lights, new years day" at Sunday, 11 January 2009 21:20by Brian
I also saw these 5 strange lights on new years day around 1:15am, it was a cloudy night and they were moving across the sky just under the clouds. the sighting was in glasgow scotland, they only thing a think is weird is that there must have been more cause the times of the sightings do not match. i have spotted many weird ufo sightings as i stay near bonnybridge and have more weird stories but the 5 red/orange lights spooked me out
71Comment at Saturday, 10 January 2009 10:56by Peakman
P.S. I am never without at least my mobile camera these days :-) And yes it did seem like a giant squid or octopus. But in the air?
70Comment at Monday, 12 January 2009 00:15by Peakman
David Hi. It was "Paul Mckenna I believe, the guy who used to present, "who would live in a house like this?" And no, not influenced by the latest UFO incident, which to be seemed to describing "Ball lightening" discharging to earth and not a living creature. After I returned from that walk I wrote a report (ex military see :-) Since that time it has been saved to file and posted here and there over the years, without any positive response I may say. The best I have come up with is, for what it's worth this. http://www.cthulhu.org/cthulhu/in dex.html
69"re Peakman's posts" at Friday, 09 January 2009 20:21by davID
Peakman :: interesting account indeed. I wondered if you'd recalled this since the current media attn regarding the Lincs "UFO and wind-turbine" has witnesses stating they saw an 'octopus-like' object flying about around the same time.
You object may be like sea based cuttle-fish that can shift colours frequently giving off a psychedelic type luminescence?! Shame there was no camera handy eh?
I don't know which McKenna you mean - I'm a big reader of Terence McKenna but on UK TV there was a lot of Paul McKEnna... they are the ones I can think of now.
davID, Exo UK
68"ORANGE BALLS 09" at Friday, 09 January 2009 17:54by Rose
I too saw the orange ember coloured lights on New Years ever/morning. Around 10 past midnight a friend and I were walking to a house party in South East London when we saw four orange balls of light in the sky over head. At first we thought they were embers off of fireworks but they never faded.
They seemed to be moving towards each other and then moving away. We were really perplexed at what they could be.
67Comment at Friday, 09 January 2009 15:43by Peakman
Intriguing? End of this fractured post. Sorry about that. Please read fron post 62 to post 66. Thank you.
66Comment at Friday, 09 January 2009 15:38by Peakman
about thought history strange things have be reported in the sky etc etc, yawn, yawn, to back up what he is saying he says, "For instance what about this medieval painting depicting the crucifixion" and up comes the picture. Then he says "But what are these in the background?". You guessed, yes two of the creatures I (we) saw at the bottom of our field. They were positioned in the sky over the hills in the background. That was it 15/20 seconds but I had taped it. I called my wife who was in the kitchen to come and take a look, sure enough she said they are what we saw. The program was rubbish nothing more on this. I wrote to McKenna but I am still awaiting a reply. However, a mid European artist some 400 years ago put into a picture two of the creatures we saw on that winters day. Intriguing?
65Comment at Friday, 09 January 2009 15:37by Peakman
Continued.....'s own power" for it's descent would have been subject to a very strong cross wind. The boy had grabbed my binoculars (in the window for bird watching) and ran outside to the bottom of the garden. At this point he would have been within 200 yards of this creature, he panicked and ran back inside. My wife was all afraid, describing it as a huge octopus. Some years later I was browsing through the T.V. Times to see if there was anything worth watching and a 30 minute program caught my eye. Strange things and all that sort of stuff, presented by McKenna I think the guys name was. Anyhow on an impulse I taped it and forgot about it. Weeks later, nothing on the box, what have I on tape? Oh, I'll have a look at this, so put it on. McKenna comes on with some spiel about thought history strange things have be reported in the sky etc etc, yawn, yawn, to back up what he is saying he says, "For instance what about this medieval painting depicting the crucif
64Comment at Friday, 09 January 2009 15:26by Peakman
Continued...West (not quite with the wind) until at about 3000 ft it was no longer visible. Well I can describe what I saw but what it was, I do not know. To this creature, our atmosphere was as dense as sea water is to a jelly fish. It was without doubt alien to our environment. At the time we had staying with us a young teenager, (we fostered children from the local authority then) and upon my return he rushed up to me and said, "Did you see it?", "See what?" I replied not wishing to influence him. "It was like a big spider, down there at the bottom of the field". It transpired both he and my wife had seen it before me, as it descended from the South to the point on the ground where it first caught my attention. Thus proving it was "under it's own power" for it's descent would have been subject to a very strong cross wind. The boy had grabbed my binoculars (in the window for bird watching) and ran outside to the bottom of the ga
63Comment at Friday, 09 January 2009 15:24by Peakman
Continued....paper, mobile phone? What's one of those? I looked around, not a soul in sight would you believe. Therefore I took great care in my observation of the creature. It was about 6ft in diameter, it was "domed" with the dome about 2 maybe 3ft in height. Below the body 6 or may 8 "legs" or tentacles hung down. It was dark brown turning to black at the top of it's dome. It was in all resects a "giant sort of jelly fish". The most weird thing was the way in which it made progress though the air. It did not "fly" it "propelled" itself in exactly the same way as that of a jelly fish in sea water. I observed this "creature" as it rose up into the air, it continued rising at angle of about 30 degrees towards the West (not quite with the wind) until at about 3000 ft it was no longer visible. Well I can describe what I saw but what it was, I do not know. To this creature, our atmosphere was as dense as sea w
62Comment at Friday, 09 January 2009 15:20by Peakman
It would be about twenty years ago (at least) that one Saturday afternoon I was out walking with our two dogs. It was very cold and a very strong wind was blowing East to West. The cottage we live in overlooks open fields and I was about half a mile away upon the hillside which overlooks our home. I saw what I thought was a large black plastic sheet being blown about in the corner of the field which is adjacent to our cottage. My thoughts were, "I'll collect that up on my way home". However as I watched it became apparent that it was not a plastic sheet. It looked like there were a few rooks in a group getting existed about something, funny behaviour for rooks I thought. Then I watched in amazement as a creature began to rise up into the air. I had no camera no pencil and paper, mobile phone? What's one of those? I looked around, not a soul in sight would you believe. Therefore I took great care in my observation of the creature. It was about 6ft in diameter, it wa
61"Orange ball in sky" at Thursday, 08 January 2009 11:52by Kel
I thought i was seeing things on New Years day in Tyldseley, Gr Manchester. It was about 6.00pm and I went out in to the garden for a cigarette and was dazing at the sky (it was a clear sky), I could see all the stars then this orange ball. i first thought it might be a plane on fire but it was not falling out of the sky. There was no noise and no smoke trails in the sky that planes make. Im so glad I read some of these comments, because I thought i was seeing things
60"orange balls (ufo's)" at Wednesday, 07 January 2009 21:52by michael francis
i was at my mother inlaws on new years eve she lives in Anerley, south london. we were outside in the garden smoking, and we deffinitley saw the orange balls there was atleast 7 or 8 and it looked like they was moving in a convoy, i must admit at first we thought they were fireworks but after watching them for a bout 10mins you could clearly see that it was not. the weirdest thing i have ever seen.
59"North Yorks orb" at Tuesday, 06 January 2009 22:56by davID
Jez - there were no formal terrestrial flashing lights on this from what you say - so a common MoD related aircraft it should not have been - otherwise it's green and amber flashing lights and usually a strobing white on top of those.
Just seen pictures on the site. Interesting in as much as there have been some videos and images released in recent years that capture objects making symbols as the ones are above. Look at the case of Dorothy Izatt - either search google or there is a long video on the UK site. Also the Stephensville Texas object was recorded doing this.
As you say - in your case - the object could have been moving or the camera - you need a tripod and fast shutter speed to find out [not handy in these situations of course!].
Thanks for the report.
58"North Yorks Orange Ball" at Tuesday, 06 January 2009 22:15by Jez Scott
Saturday 3rd Jan 2009: West Witton, we were walking home from the village at 1:15am and saw an orange orb floating upwards from South-West to North. It was about 60ft above our heads to begin with before rising hundreds of feet and disappearing from view into the clouds. We heard a high pitched noise which may or may not have been related to the object. But it was definitely an Unidentified Flying Object. It was smaller than a plane or helicopter and moving at a steady rate upwards and Northwards. It had a glow like candlelight but was not like a candle-powered hot air balloon. There were four of us watching it and this picture was taken when the object was approximately 400ft in the air above us. Pics at http://www.24hourtrading.co.uk/blog/the- weirdest-thing-ive-ever-seen-1293/
57"Exo UK Admin" at Tuesday, 06 January 2009 02:00by davID
Hi there
The issue with the "orange orbs" seen so often at the moment and in the last year or so in the UK is that they can often look close to the Chinese lanterns that people light and release using their own convection power [I think this is the term?!].
So we have to be careful not to add fuel to the nay-sayers debate by making some basic assertions and observations.
1. Lanterns do not stay in perfect formation for long periods. 2. Lanterns will follow wind direction 3. Lanterns have a core that is fairly easy to ID with binoculars 4. Lanterns do not move at strange trajectories nor do they speed up or slow down quickly. 5 Lanterns do not travel faster than wind speed - a few mph usually. -
56"orange light (Hartlepool)" at Sunday, 04 January 2009 21:36by Neil
I was in my mates living room (central Hartlepool) on 1st Jan at about 5.00pm when he pointed out an orange light glowing in the sky. He told me he had just seen it move rapidly (in a burst) into the centre of the sky from behind some houses. We watched it for 5mins before venturing outside for a better look. The light stayed static for about 5 mins before moving vertically upward until it was so high you could no longer see it. His neighbour who was parking her car and had seen us looking up at this at first told us not to be silly and that it was an aircraft. She changed her mind when she saw it quickly disappear vertically into the stratosphere - any postings on the site advising that they could be chinese lanterns are definitely wrong as a lantern would not have manouvred as this object did!
55"orange lights" at Sunday, 04 January 2009 15:05by John
me and my girlfriend saw orange ball lights in derry northern ireland, two nights in a row the same thing, then again about 3 days later, they were moving really slow in different directions then stopped it stayed there all night and was gone by the morning
54"orange lights" at Sunday, 04 January 2009 11:15by andrew bailey
i saw 2 orange ballsof light moving steadily across the nights sky on x mas eve 2008. Im always looking at the stars and i ve never seen anything like this before. And after seeing this web site and others these orange balls of light have been apperaring alm over the uk. Whats going on. I read one comment saying these were venus and saturn which is rubbish these were moving. thanks andy bailey from Yateley in Hants
53"orange lights yorkshire" at Saturday, 03 January 2009 13:26by gaz
my girlfriend and i saw a orange glowing ball that was stationary when we first saw it, then it seemed to turn and move behind clouds as fireworks went off on new years eve
52"UFO Sightings" at Saturday, 03 January 2009 02:26by Alexia Collen
I saw the same, 5 orange lights over Notting Hill Gate at 3 am.. When i joined the rest of my friends they laughed at me.. Today i looked on the Net at the mail on line, and somebody has photographed the same 5 in streatham at 10.30pm.. Now who\\\'s laughing!!!
51"orange globes 31/12/2008" at Friday, 02 January 2009 20:25by dave lee
my observation was luckily with several other adult witnesses, they were not flares, Chinese lanterns, swamp gas, etc. etc. the orbs moved in a very strange super straight line, they were up there for a good 20 minutes, before passing out of sight, NOT falling to earth, there must be some real dumb people out there as even one of the people who saw this got scared and denied seeing it the very next day. location Langley, North Manchester, UK.
50"orange lights" at Friday, 02 January 2009 20:15by sam
i live in norfolk and new years day about 8:30pm i went out to have a cig and was on the phone to a freind when i looked up i saw two bright red things in the sky they looked a bit like they was on fire but they was hoovering and moving side to side then started to get smaller and then just srunk into nothing just dissapered so glad i found this ppl aint belivig me so wish i had recorded it im not going out 4 a cig tonight to scared :(
49"Orange Balls - Darlington" at Friday, 02 January 2009 20:09by Adam
During New Year 2008/2009 (1st January 09) myself and parents were in the garden watching fireworks and at around 12:15 - 12:20 we saw around 5-6 Orange balls of light to the south of us moving in pairs. They seemed to be around airplane height moving in various directions and at times were stationary. They appeared in pairs but at times moved independantly and disappeared. They were visiable for around 10 - 15 minutes until they vanished. We thought they might be helicopters or military aircraft but they didnt move in the same way as aircraft or have any noise. This was in Darlington Co. Durham - Steve - I suspect we saw the same lights.
48"orange balls 2008" at Friday, 02 January 2009 19:30by Roni
Thank god I found this site I thought I was going mad. I live in Marbella spain and whilst watching the firework display on the 31st of dec 2008 I saw an orange ball shape in the sky it was joined by another brighter larger one before they speed away back up through the clouds, no noise I have been perplexed ever since . I am 46 and I am an educated woman and not prone to exaggeration
47"Orange Balls" at Friday, 02 January 2009 01:36by Sully
New Years Eve 2008-9, saw two glowing orbs, sort of dull fire like objects. Not on the normal flight path to Stansted (live in Chelmsford) moving about slowy with no noise and no sense of purpose. Was around from between midnight and 0130 (and yes, we were sober). Thought they may have been police helicoptors but no noise and as for anything like laterns, were perhaps 4 to 500 feet possibly higher in the air...
46"orange light 24th Dec 08" at Thursday, 01 January 2009 20:46by dorian and claire
Whilst standing in our garden in Belper Derbyshire on xmas eve 2008 at around 11:30 PM we witnessed an orange light in the sky. It was travelling in a Southerly direction at a height I would consider to be \\\'airplane\\\' height, quite quickly. It then stopped and stayed moitionless and silent for about 2 mins. It then changed direction and went upwards slowly until it disapeared from sight, giving the impression that it had travelled so high it could no longer be seen by the eye. The orange light moved in such a way and at such a speed that it could not have been a \\\'chinese lantern\\\' or an aircraft that we know of.
45"orange balls" at Thursday, 01 January 2009 12:55by steve
sorry that last comment was 1 jan 2009!!
44"orange balls" at Thursday, 01 January 2009 12:54by steve
myself and several family members witnessed four orange balls all equally spaced and slowly moving silently on the same flightpath at 12.15 am on 1 jan 2008. the first one i thought was a police helicopter and maybe the light was orange due to firework smoke but then another appeared followed by two more at equal intervals. they travelled paralell to the ground before seeming to stop and then go straight up quite quickly before fading out. a younger family member recorded the incident on her mobile phone but when we watched it the picture is quite shaky. this was in darlington co. durham and a few weeks earlier i saw one of these balls whilst alone in my garden doing a similar thing.
43"Re posted from email" at Wednesday, 31 December 2008 00:48by Jeff
Sent in via site contact form - this is very similar to what a friend and family saw on Xmas eve in North Nottingham. They saw a CIGAR SHAPED [these are often saucers at an angle] object, large, orange which moved at high speed. ======== This is an enquiry e-mail via http://www.exopolitics.org.uk from: Jeff Just been looking for a site like this! I saw an orange light low in the sky on Christmas day. It was utterly silent, had a lind of cylinder or elongated box shape, moved close to the ground and then rose up and disappeared. It went against the wind, and was quite slow. Location - Rotherham. Time - 7.15pm. Various memebrs of my family also saw this light and the best explanation any of them has given is that it was a microlite! Better explanations welcome
42"Sightings Barrow in Furne" at Tuesday, 30 December 2008 07:33by Nick
Saturday 27th December 2008 - While waling the Dog at about 7.00pm i oserved an orange light that i took to be an aircraft. High moving to the NW. This was followed by many others in formation. Called friends to see and they observed at least 25 of these. and some had a relative movement to others. The lights did not appear to be wind driven, but clearly propelled. Toatally silent, not fading, but disappeared into the NW quite slowly. Must have seen them for at least a couple of minutes. Anyone else see this in the area?
41"Exo UK Admin" at Monday, 29 December 2008 13:05by davID
Anyone see a convex / cigar shape LARGE orange object over Nottingham or Midlands area on the 24th December? If so - get in touch please.
davID
40"orange lights" at Sunday, 28 December 2008 21:52by Lorraine
My children and I also saw an orange light in the sky on Christmas Eve at around 7pm. This was in Aigburth, Liverpool. Just found this sight.
39"Orange Lights" at Saturday, 27 December 2008 19:48by michelle
On 24th December 2008 my partner witnessed one orange light - it was a ball shape and silent moving. It was about 5.30 pm (Evesham, Worcestershire). It shrank in size then zoomed off. The following evening i witnessed 3 orange balls. It was at the same time. At first i saw the one then came another following the first one and then another one following that. They were all equally spaced. I watched for about one minute and then they disapeared very quickly at a right angle. Very strange.
38"Nepal" at Saturday, 27 December 2008 05:23by colin
On the first evening of an 8 day trek into the Annapurna range in the Himalaya,a friend and I observed two lights flying in parallel at a distance of around 100m apart.They made no noise,and did not flicker or flash as would a plane or other similar aircraft.They headed for Machapuchere(fishtail) mountain,and simply disappeared near the peak after about 10 mins observation.The area is a no fly area,and people have been forbidden to climb or trek this particular peak since the fifties.Its important 2 note,my friend is a keen astronomer and quickly ruled out sattelites or meteors due to speed,trajectory etc.This fact that they just vanished cannot be adequately explained
37"Orange/red balls" at Tuesday, 23 December 2008 10:27by gill
Hi! Just came across this site. On 23rd Aug we saw at first one orangey/red ball in the sky above Woolavington Village, Somerset. At first I thought it was aplanet, but then realised it was far too lw and too big! As we got near my daughters house it started to move silently overhead, it went in the direction of Cheddar/Shipham. We headed back to West Huntspill after dropping my daughter home, and she phoned to say she could see 3 more in the sky, they at first went off in a line then formed a V. They were also silent. The next day people phoned a local radio station saying they ahd seen them too, some from as far \as 20/25 miles rom us. Most people had seen 8 of them. I would be most interested to find out what they are. I hope this story is of help to you.
36"orange fire ball in sky" at Monday, 22 December 2008 21:58by jgodden
On the evening of the 21 st December 2008 while walking back to my house in Glastonbury I saw an Orange glow at 7.42 pm, in a ball shape, quite large, moving slowly and with no noise in a south to north direction , low in the sky, and parallel with the ground surface. I stood for 2 minutes and watched it disappear beyond range. It did not appear to be travelling with the wind direction, although this was difficult to ascertain accurately. and there was no tail. Did anyone else see it, or have any ideas?
35"UFO in warick. 15th Nov" at Monday, 17 November 2008 08:56by Amber
On Saturday the 15th Nov 2008 Out of my window in Warwick we saw 3 bright orange lights. At first my mum thought it was an aeroplane coming towards the house. They then stopped and made a triangle formation, then a straight line all evenly spaced. After moving around for a few seconds, one began to fly away at a steady even speed, the other 2 then followed. We even turned off the t.v and opened the windows too see if we could hear anything but nothing. All 4 of us saw it but none of us could think of a reason.
34"Notts sightings" at Monday, 17 November 2008 02:04by davID
Wow - all this Midlands based stuff.... Anyone see a tadpole shaped object at night recently??? This was reported near Gelding also.
davID, Exo UK
33"Orange Lights" at Sunday, 16 November 2008 21:27by Lynda
Last night around 11.00pm in my back garden in Chelmsford, saw an orange glow in the distance, thought it was a firework at first, as it got closer saw that there was another exactly the same following behind, both travelling at a steady speed in a straight line. I then thought they might be meteors, because it was such an orange glow. I called my partner to come and look as well. As they went overhead, there was no noise at all, they were around helicopter height, but we have helicopters flying overhead all the time, nothing at all like these. Would be interested if anyone alse saw these yesterday.
32"\\\"Nottingham UFO\\\" at Saturday, 15 November 2008 22:23by Nicole
Hi Adrian (8th November 2008). I don\\\'t usually visit these sights but saw exactly what you described viewed from Cavendish Road over toward Gedling this evening. Difficult to determine the exact shape by eye as the orange glow was very bright like a halo around the craft. It was travelling at about the height and speed of a helicopter but completely silently and with no flashing lights - the colour was completely wrong for any aircraft which is what drew our attention in the first place. My daughter ran in for a mobile phone and we got a picture although by this time it had moved some way away. Having downloaded the picture and zoomed in (very basically) it appears to be a silvery disc shape and the halo appears green rather than orange - I have the picture if anybody can explain it??
31"orange lights" at Saturday, 15 November 2008 12:05by jo
i thought my mother was going nuts last week when she told me about three "clusters" of orange lights moving slowly in a rough formation in cockerton, darlington, north east england. on my way home from work just last night i saw 3 of these lights one really bright the other 2 were moving slowly and silently away, i followed the 3rd but it moved very quickly into the distance and dissappeared into the cloud. paper lanterns had crossed my mind but dont know what they look like normally. or how bright they get. have to apoligise to mother now :-(
30"Orange Silent UFO" at Sunday, 09 November 2008 12:12by Adrian
8th Nov 2008 : Apprx 9.30PM - Gedling, Nottingham. I was standing in my back garden watching fireworks in the distance when I noticed what I thought was a rocket launching into the sky. I imagined it was going to be one of the best rockets I had ever seen as it seemed to have a lot of power whilst climbing. Expecting it to explode I was amazed when it didn\\\'t. Instead it travelled SILENTLY glowing (not flashing) orange/yellow passing directly over head at approx helicopter height. Whilst I wasn’t able to determine the shape the speed of the craft whilst hard to determine was that of a small jet aircraft. The direction of the craft was from the south east travelling towards Mansfield. My girlfriend also witnessed the sighting. We are very interested to hear of other similar sightings.
29"Orange Lights" at Tuesday, 04 November 2008 16:19by Malcolm Stewart
My wife and I were at Glastonbury Festival this year - lots of orange paper lanterns were launched. One landed on a nearby farm and started a fire. People in our camp said that the previous year one had nearly burned a friend's tent. Friends in the Black Forrest in Germany launched one out from a balcony. They can fly until the nightlight candle inside burns out. Very often they become unstable and crash - the flame usually goes out as they fall. They're beautiful when they work. They're not UFOs - being identifiable.
28Comment at Monday, 03 November 2008 16:28by Mounts Bay PZ
I have seen lots of these orange lights over the past 6 months. They are certainly very strange. Like the descriptions above they are very precise in formation and movement. there is only ever the one light which is the orange glow you see from the ground. There is no engine noise at all with these objects, You are quite likely if you see one to see one or two more that same night. They do seem to disappear upwards but fading out as disappears upwards. I have also watched one just this Saturday gone November 1st come over the roof of my house and across the bay towards St Michaels Mount then come back towards my house and then Pose as a star for at least Half and hour or so. I dont know what these are but there seems to be a hell of a lot of this particular type at the moment.
27Comment at Sunday, 19 October 2008 20:46by davID
Hi there
No but I'm interested in a longer description as I live a few miles from the Abbey. It sounds a strange craft - aviation rules for planes mean they have green and red lights and maybe one strobing white light.
A lot happens around here.
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26"UFO's??" at Sunday, 19 October 2008 18:51by Maria
20.05, Saturday 18th October 2008, A60 - over Newstead Abbey, Nottm. Possibly 15 - 20 separate lights. Looked like small aircraft in formation, but lights not flashing..just main beam on each.
Any one else see this??
25Comment at Thursday, 25 September 2008 22:09by davID
Did you check if local parties had released lanterns??
Lot of that being done at moment.... esp weekends... you can usually tell with decent binoculars.
davID
24"Chelmsford" at Thursday, 25 September 2008 15:40by Simon Mason
Hi, i was outside the back of my house on Tuesday 23rd September, when myself and three friends saw a large, bright orange ball move in a very straght line directly overhead, it seemed quite high but big, and made no noise, didnt flash, we went out the front to see it just disapear before it would have gone out of sight. i caught a tiny amount of it on video just before it disapeard but it doesnt look much just a small orange ball as it was dark, someone else from chelmsford surely must have seen it, was between 9-10pm and was travelling in a southern sorto of direction.
23"Liverpool UFO sighting" at Sunday, 17 August 2008 05:19by Michelle Haywood
I was leaving my friends house at 1.45 am this morning and we saw a large bright opaque orange light silently cross from Aigburth (south) towards North Liverpool then disappear, then about a minute later another orange light travelled in the exact same route and disappeared. This sighting must have been seen by many people.
22Comment at Wednesday, 06 August 2008 22:22by BT
I think it was the 21 July 2008 around 9.30pm when my wife and I saw a very bright lifht in the sky heading East across Chelmsford. It looked like a star but was moving slowly and steadily away from us. There were lots of aircraft in the sky at the time and it definitely was not a plane. It went through some cloud, came out of it again for a while then just disappeared. Did anyone else see it.
21"Mrs" at Tuesday, 05 August 2008 12:32by Margaret Hirst
My husband and I saw 10 - 12 of the orange moving objects at 10.20pm on August 2nd travelling directly over our house in Bedale. They were using a route normally travelled by helicopters flying from Catterick to Dishforth and were in Leeming airspace. Did the RAF base see anything? My husband is a retired RAF pilot and was very puzzled by the lack of sound and speed of travel.
20"Mrs" at Monday, 04 August 2008 21:29by K Smith
At about 10.30pm on 2nd August \\\'08, my husband and I were returning home to Barrow Upon Soar in Leicestershire when we saw some orange lights in the sky which caught our attention. Over the period of about 5-10 mins, we witnessed approximately 10-14 bright orange lights, (about the same colour of street lights), move quite quickly across the sky in a sort of south easterly direction and then fade into the distance/thin cloud. They appeared to be following each other, with random spacing. They moved silently and a couple of times there were 2 together travelling parallel to one another. On one of these ocassions, they moved together until appearing almost to touch and then apart again. The speed and direction of movement varied and was unlike any aircraft we\\\'ve ever seen before.
19Comment at Monday, 04 August 2008 13:44by blankcard
Hi I live in Winchester first sighting of strange object at low altitude stationary bright light at 8.30 was still lsunight and visible for at least half an hour, the second sighting came the nextnight 2 am was watching a film and looked out of my side window and saw the same light in a diff position but same similar altitude really low less than 10000 feet, object was present for 40 mins then light just shot off. by this time thought i was going crazy then last night at about 1 am over winch again saw intense bright light at low alt woke me girlfriend up so she could see confirmed it was far to low for a star and too bright, she had no idea what it could be mate of mine was walking past outside when we were looking and he also saw object, anyone else seen over hampshire.
18Comment at Monday, 04 August 2008 13:41by chris
I forgot to mention that this sighting was in Liverpool, over the Sefton Park area, close to the area of the ufo sighting mentioned in the news a few weeks ago.
17Comment at Monday, 04 August 2008 11:16by Chris
Sunday August 3rd 2008. At approximately 11:30pm my girlfriend and I saw a bright orange glowing ball travel in a straight line right over our house. In view for approximately 2 minutes. Seemed to have a cone shaped light in front of it moving from side to side. We thought it was the police helicopter at first which flies over regularly, but there was no sound. It just climbed higher and disappeared into the clouds. Very strange sight.
16"orange lights" at Monday, 04 August 2008 00:49by Jessica
Frustratingly, the photos which we have do not capture the orange lights clearly, as the camera was not still enough for night photography. They really didn\\\'t seem to be lanterns - the movement across the sky and the formation pattern in which they travelled seemed to be too exact...I guess there is no way of proving anything, but I will be checking on this website again, as I am an intrigued science teacher who would like an explanation!
15"Mrs" at Monday, 04 August 2008 00:31by Samantha Macdonald
My husband and I saw approximately 6 orange lights hovering in the sky over Rothley in Leicestershire at about 11.45pm on Sun Aug 3rd 2008. We were in the car and pulled over to look at them. They started out in a formation, (a bit like the shape of the plough star formation) hovering, not moving. The lights were orange and glowing; one by one they disappeared but one flew across the sky and then disappeared. Strange!!! They did not look like the planes we get here.
14"Orange lights" at Sunday, 03 August 2008 18:27by davID
Hi there - Problem with a weekend sighting of orange lights at the moment is people assume they are "party lanterns". I'm not saying they are this at all - just that due to this - we now need to get good video footage or images to show they are not lanterns.
There are ways to tell them apart but decent resolution pictures are needed.
Thanks, davID
13Comment at Sunday, 03 August 2008 17:52by dave and cheri
re: Jessica's comment 2/8/08 We live in Nettlestead, nr Maidstone in Kent. On Sat night, 2nd August we saw exactly what you saw at 22:00. What you describe is exactly what we saw in the sky and would love to know what explanations can be given!
12"Orange lights" at Sunday, 03 August 2008 12:49by Jessica
Sat 2nd Aug 08 at approx 2220 from garden in east Cheshire - 8 of us saw a series of orange lights traversing quite fast, below cloud cover in a north-easterly direction. There was no noise and they moved smoothly in loose formation across the sky. We captured on camera, but not great pictures due to darkness. All of us are born cynics, but are completely mystified as to what these lights could be. Too fast for Chinese lanterns and they definitely were not aircraft. Did anyone else see them?
11"mr" at Friday, 01 August 2008 21:29by stephen dent
Wed 30th July 08 at 11.30pm approx in my back garden in Darlington saw 5 orange lights in the sky , no noise could be heard, all travelling in a south-easterly direction,with eratic movement\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\' s from 1 or 2 of them ( sideways ).
10"Mrs" at Thursday, 31 July 2008 00:16by Gloria McGivern
Wed 30 July 08 approx 10.30 travelling on the A1 North of Darlington saw approximately 10 orange lights in the sky many other drivers must have witnessed the same interested to know what they could be.
9Comment at Monday, 28 July 2008 14:20by davID
Hi Hayley - I am originally from near Birmingham so I know many Midlands areas and it's interesting to see just how many sightings are happening in this region at the moment...
Have you sent a report in to UFO-info? Their site address is in the resources section - menu on left.
8"Miss" at Sunday, 27 July 2008 21:23by Hayley
I saw 3 bright orange ord like things cross the sky, quite fast, but also they changes direction rather cleverly and smoothly what kind of aircraft can do this, and then fade away up up and away. I am from Ibstock, leicestershire, I was not the only person to see these, my partner and other people walking in the street at around 11.15 pm. I am utterly in shock, No explanation for them at all, but what is odd, it that 1 year ago (25th July 2007) there were sightings in warwickshire at around similar time!
7"Lanterns" at Friday, 18 July 2008 14:31by davID
Yes - I think the lanterns are a common sighting error - but there are ways to tell between these and a "true" UFO or UAP or ETV!
Thing is now, the press and the MoD and debunkers are using the lanterns excuse for ALL sightings of orb-like-phenomena which of course is not the right approach.
6Comment at Friday, 18 July 2008 14:15by Paula
My husband and I saw 12-15 amber lights over Donisthorpe Woodland in Leicestershire one Saturday evening in June at about 10.20pm. They were not moving quickly, but each one floated up and down for about 3-4 minutes before vanishing. If anyone else saw them, please get in touch. They could have been Chinese lanterns, but I am not sure why anyone in this area would be using them.
5"Master" at Monday, 14 July 2008 11:56by Michael MacKenzie
On my holiday to Lubersac, France my family and I saw a light in the sky alternating between green and red. We thought it was an aeroplane but it was not moving anywhere just staying in one place. The next night it wasn't there.
4"To Worcs person" at Saturday, 12 July 2008 13:18by UFO in Midlands
Hi there Re: Below - if you want, you can email me - david-AT-exopolitics.org.uk and/or
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--> I will keep your ID quiet if wish - you have nothing to fear, eveyone is seeing these things at moment. I\\\'m interested as I originally come from Worcs area... lots happening there it seems. davID
3"mr" at Friday, 11 July 2008 15:34by P Dockray
Where can i let people see what i think was a ufo i took shots of this week. Do not want to give any more info than to say it was in worcestershire, shame not to share the photos though. Please respect my privacy.
2"Exo Uk" at Thursday, 03 July 2008 17:38by davID
The UK Midlands are currently a hotspot... or have we just bought more cameras in this area?
1"Nottingham UFOs" at Tuesday, 01 July 2008 04:24by Mick
Anyone seen the odd-shaped balls over the Notts, England area?
If so you can get in touch with me - esp if have images:
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