uk1998 — British UFO Files

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UFO Report 1998 Town / Village Occupation of reporter where known Brief Description of sighting 22:05 Knutsford One small, kite sized, leaf shaped object. Was bright red in colour. Moved very fast. 01:50 Raglan Circular in shape with a tail and extremely bright. It moved incredibly fast in different directions across the sky. 19:30 Calne One, larger than a Hercules, elongated object. Red/green - long lights, white lights at the back, in squares. Very bright. 05:45 Rayleigh Three white lights. One red light on top. Was rocking from side to side, and then faded. 18:49 Coulsdon A beam of light was shining upwards. Then a crescent shaped object was seen. It moved slowly acro ss the sky. Cigar shaped object. Was white with a green tinge. Was seen for a few seconds, accelerated extremely f ast and then disappeared. 07:40 Falkirk A large object. The same size as the moon. It went vertical straight through the cloud. 21:56 Glasgow Lanarkshire Like a meteor - silent sphere of light. Was moving in an arc, going from South East to North E ast. It then disappeared. 21:50 Kennoway Light, orange ball. Like a dull shooting star. Silent. Was heading North East. 22:30 Framlingham A long, dark object in the sky. Two bright lights at either end, and several red ones in the m iddle. It moved vertically and then horizontally. 21:15 Stirling Low flying white light, with multi-coloured flashing lights on the underside. Was hovering. 02:50 Gorton Greater Manchester Lots of lights together - very fast flashing red lights in a cluster. Very bright and it appeared large. 17:58 Airdrie Object looked triangular in shape, defined by three flashing lights. One on the right was green and the others white. 15:00 Swansea West Glamorgan Black, triangular shaped object, with two fins. 20:25 Newport One object, thought to be a star, with stud like lights underneath in a circle. Was travelling Nort h in a straight line. 05:45 Corby Northamptonshire Three red lights in a triangular formation. There was a silver star shaped object, below t he lights. 21:00 Ruislip Spherical shaped object. Was bright and pulsating. Looked like a large light bulb. 100ft diamete r? - not sure. Slow moving. 22:02 New Cross South London One, airline sized, cigar shaped object, with a red light. Quite bright. The object was movi ng erratically. 19:15 A272 nr Winchester Main object - large, red/orange luminous ball. There were two smaller objects that had totally different flight paths. 07:30 Birmingham West Midlands One object, the size of a passenger plane. Was triangular in shape and silver. Very brig ht, due to the reflection of the morning sun. 22:55 Southend One red and green object. It was still. 02:30 Sutton Coldfield West Midlands One oval shaped object. Bright green/blue in colour. Half magnitude brightness - o f the moon. It shot up vertically in the sky. 07:15 A281 nr Guildford Three circular objects, 20-30 feet high. They were orange and very bright. They were stat ionary for a short time, then disappeared. 06:40 Fleet Triangular object, like the end of a plane or concord. Three brilliant white lights. 15:40 Barry South Glamorgan Blast of orange light. In the same direction, three golden balls appeared, that were bright er and then they disappeared. 07:00 Grove Park A black, ruler shaped object. It moved across the moon and then disappeared. 21:30 A34 nr Abingdon Oxfordshire Huge object, like a shooting star. Also looked like a firework rocket, descending do wn with the exhaust burning. 03:10 Finchamstead Twenty eight foot circular object, with a dome on top, which had a bright yellowish/whitish light. Travelled very fast North East. 07:35 Methill Two circles of light that were very bright and very close together. They moved at fast speed vertica lly up into the sky. 18:45 Lincoln Lincolnshire A single black triangle was seen. 20:06 Heartburn/Stockton A central disc, with lights shooting off of it. It was hovering. 02:20 Evesham Worcestershire One oval shaped object, which was extremely bright with a dark blodge. It was slowly movin g across the sky. 21:00 Ladysbridge Aberdeenshire One orange object, with a very intense bright light. It was moving very slowly and then it just disappeared. 18:30 Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire Two large yellow lights, surrounded by smaller blue/green and yellow lights. They ma de vertical and horizontal movements. 17:00 Halifax West Yorkshire Purple, diamond shaped object, with a circle in the middle of it. East Yorkshire Blue, circular intermittent light. 20:45 North of M898/Glasgow Lanarkshire Bright light, possibly a shooting star. Was falling to earth very fast. 13:06 Gibraltar Point/Skegness Lincolnshire A large, cylindrical, solid object. It was silver in colour and very bright . The object shot up in the air and disappeared. Cambridgeshire Lights were seen dancing in the sky. The lights went up and down in the sky and seemed t o keep pace with the witnesses car. 20:06 Skirlaugh East Yorkshire One object. It had a bright white light, and an inner red light. It was moving up, down, backwards and forwards. 19:45 Maidstone Red and white, round flashing lights. Two and sometimes three of them. Moving around. 20:55 Cheam Very bright, pink light. Shot off at high speed. 19:45 Bwlchgwyn A large, black, oblong shaped object, approx. 30-40ft long. It was about 15-25ft off the ground. 19:20 Newton Stewart Wigtonshire The object was like the sun setting, an orange glow. Three lights shot off from it. 02:05 Leven The object looked like a red dome. Had a white flashing light, which was small and bright. 17:40 Bolton Greater Manchester A round, and very bright object. Equivalent to a 5p coin in size, at arms length. Was sta tionary and then disappeared. Humberside The object looked like two lights. The width was about 10 metres across. Was hovering. 21:20 South Brent Bright stars in the shape of a "T". Then a bright orange light was seen. High in the sky. They were descending slowly. 19:15 Histon/Cambridge Cambridgeshire Five, round, smooth objects. There were red and blue flashing lights, going round in a circle and another light in the centre. Quite fast. 00:30 Harrogate North Yorkshire Very large spherical object, with multi coloured lights. Was moving at high speed. 22:25 Bury St Edmunds Twenty five to thirty, small disc shaped objects, that were illuminated. It veered away. 23:20 Wrexham One large, square-ish, very bright object. Was blue-ish with lights around it. There was a humming sound and a nasty smell. 22:50 Malpas The object was silent, and was changing from pale blue to green then yellow, and had one bright li ght. It moved erratically in the sky. 04:20 Clywd Mountains/Clywd An object, had blue lights on the top and white lights on the bottom. Was 40ft in len gth. About 600ft high. 01:30 Liverpool Merseyside One round, grey object, helicopter size. Revolving clockwise - plate spinning. Witness cou ld see windows, and a glow coming through them. 21:20 Kelty One large star - like object. It had colours that were changing. UFO Report 1998 Town / Village Occupation of reporter where known Brief Description of sighting 23:45 Much Marcle/Ledbury Herefordshire A UFO was hovering and had numerous flashing lights, of all different colours. T he object hovered in the sky for about 10 minutes. 02:00 Musselburgh Midlothian Two, jelly fish shaped objects. They were very bright. Moving in a South Easterly direction One triangular object, with flashing green and red lights. 21:00 Falkirk Stirlingshire One oval object, displaying five, bright searchlight type lights. The object was straight a nd level and moving slowly. 23:00 Aviemore Village/Aviemore Inverness-Shire An object in slow motion, with twelve to fifteen lights around the perime ter. 40ft to 50ft in size. The object descended behind trees. 01:00 A19/Darlington County Durham Numerous crescent shaped white lights. Very bright. There was one red light. They m oved slow at first, and then picked up speed. 23:40 Twickenham Single white light. It had a faint light behind it. It was moving slowly. 21:40 Crumlin A huge meccano/round type looking structure/object, with pulsing red, green and white lights. Very slow moving. 02:00 Nantwich A very large object. A black rectangular object, with a small fuselage. Was moving very fast. 22:00 Amersham Buckinghamshire An orange ball of light, with a white ring around the outside of it. It travelled along i n a straight line. 22:45 Wimbourne Three flare shaped objects. They were yellow in colour and very bright. They were about 500ft up and moving in the same direction. 01:30 Worthing West Sussex One oval/bell shaped object. Light in colour and very bright. It made a humming sound, which drew the witness's attention to it. 17:00 Wigan Greater Manchester Five, white objects that were very high in the sky. Very slow. 15:00 Market Harborough Leicestershire One flattened rugby ball shaped object, with a long needle hanging. White or sil ver in colour. Extremely fast. Humberside Seven lights - six together and one in front. The lights merged and moved in formation. They wer e very very high. 03:15 Llanfair P G One long shaped object, with six flashing lights. They were flashing from faded to very brigh t. They were moving from North to South. 23:00 Erdington/Birmingham West Midlands Three red lights in a triangle shape, 200ft up. Moving very slowly and changin g pattern. There was a low humming monotone sound. 00:32 Bangor One light, golden in appearance, larger and brighter than a planet. Was travelling from South West to the East. 02:15 Ogmore Vale,nr Bridgend Mid Glamorgan No distinctive shape, but was extremely bright red. Had white and blue flash ing lights. It was extremely noisy. Shot off at great speed. 22:48 Sheffield South Yorkshire A strange group of lights were seen by various witness's. The lights were moving in irr egular patterns. They shot off at great speed. 23:45 Melksham Two star sized lights about 15 feet apart. There was also one red light. They were the intensit y of the North Star. 23:00 Sheffield South Yorkshire Orange discs that were tennis ball size. There were two side by side, one on right hand side - catching up and one behind. 03:10 Birmingham West Midlands One object, small car size. Oval in shape. Blue-ish green in colour and very bright. Sta tionary for a while. There was a burning coal smell. 21:00 Benllech Isle of Anglesey One white ball of light, the size of a 5p piece at arms length. Plus, there were two sma ller, faint objects in trail too. 22:00 Battersea South London One square shaped object. Had blue, red and white lights and was pretty bright. Was statio nary and then floated - glided along. 03:30 Warminster/Westbury A flying saucer. Humberside A ball of white light. It was travelling East. Before it disappeared, the ball of light changed c olour to red! 23:15 Uttoxeter Saucer shaped object, that was revolving in the sky. Was greyish-white in colour. Was hovering and 00:05 Windsor One oval shaped object. Was orange in colour, but was quite dim. It was travelling West and was very fast. 07:15 Bradford-on-Avon One oval shaped object. Charcoal grey in colour. 00:15 Eastbourne East Sussex One star shaped object. White and blue in colour and very bright. Was moving to the North from South-West. 23:09 Manchester Greater Manchester Round object. Bright white. 400ft up in the sky. Stayed level as it moved across the 20:40 Barking Two diamond shaped objects. Yellow and very bright. The objects were zig - zagging in the sky. 00:40 Sudbury Arrow shaped object, with a light at each corner, plus one underneath. It went in a North, North -West direction. 21:35 Abronhill North Lanarkshire Star like in shape. Very bright. The object was almost vertical and descending. 23:26 Whitby North Yorkshire Saw lights in the sky. 01:06 Lydney - Forest of Dean Gloucestershire The object was round in shape. There was a very intense white light. It was moving slowly. 22:11 Whitby North Yorkshire Bright, large, cone shaped, single object. One and a half inches in size. There was static . It was moving in a straight line downwards. 08:45 A3/Guildford One, jelly bean shaped object. Had a mirror finish and was reflecting the sun. 00:15 Gulworth nr Tavistock Three, hundred foot, sphere shaped, white objects. They were moving from North to Sou th in a straight line. 02:20 Southall One object, larger than a star. It was round, white, brighter than Venus and had three tails. 02:00 Southminster One, very large flying saucer. 1000's of lights on the underside, with one larger centrally pla ced red light. It moved slowly away. 23:44 Hythe Bay A squashed, elongated disc with a yellow glow. It faded and then brightened. 00:15 Eastbourne Pinpoints of light. Objects were changing speed. 22:40 Suffolk/Cambs border Saw dim lights in a circular shape, spinning round. 01:58 A386 - Horrabridge One very large disc shaped object, that was pale blue. 23:20 Twickenham One large, circular object, that had blue lights that were spinning. One dim object, that had two white lights and two red lights. 23:41 Cleethorpes N E Lincolnshire Lights were seen in the sky, that looked suspicious. 01:30 Bury St Edmunds 8-10 white lights, rotating around one similar light. 00:30 Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire One circular object with square lights and windows from the outside going to the cen tre. Was large and revolving. 01:40 Wrexham One glowing outer ring, surrounding an oval structure with pulsating lights. 22:08 Livingston West Lothian One bright light, that was star like, which dimmed, brightened then dimmed again. 22:00 Eastbourne One small, bright star shaped object, which was moving upwards. Was very slow. 00:30 Brecon Vortex with white, red and green flashing lights. Rose straight up vertically from behind woods in th e form of an arc. Smokey trail. UFO Report 1998 Town / Village Occupation of reporter where known Brief Description of sighting 20:35 Dagenham Saw a light travelling very fast in a South Westerly direction towards Barking. 22:10 Shipley West Yorkshire One very bright object. 21:30 Aldershot Two spot shaped, star coloured objects were spotted moving through the sky very fast. 21:40 Hounslow It was like a shooting star, but with unsynchronised flashing lights. 15:10 Ludgershall One small, spherical, silver object. Was very bright. Football size perhaps. 20:25 Laleham Like a jet airliner, but very low and with no wings. It accelerated away. 23:00 Horsham West Sussex One object with three flashing lights. 00:00 Keighley West Yorkshire One object that resembled a coloured star. Was red, orange and green in colour. Made errat ic movements, then vanished. 22:45 Hadley Wood Hertfordshire There were three twinkling lights. 03:45 Trotton West Sussex One spherical object that had various colours and was very bright. 22:00 Barry South Glamorgan Four main lights formed a cross. There were bright green and orange lights in the centre. W as larger than a 747. 04:45 Llanrhaeaedr One huge, silver, star shaped object. 12:15 Louth Lincolnshire Described as a yellow/white 'glow', with flashing lights. Was moving very fast. 22:45 Highcliffe One white circle travelling in a straight line. There was then an extremely loud explosion over 02:30 Conningsby Lincolnshire Bright green light, three large green windows, 8 ft apart, oval in shape and was a quarte r of a mile long. 22:00 Frome One object looked like a yellow moon, second one looked like a triangle with red flashing lights, and the other three looked like silver balls moving in a circle formation. The noise was a very loud noise, like the roar of many engines. 22:30 Bristol Many white, small beams that were flickering. 10:00 Frome (Saw the same objects as above). 04:45 Slinford West Sussex Two points of light, that were too big to be stars. Also, circles of yellow light. They were hovering and pulsating. 23:26 Hensbridge One white object, star shape. Much brighter than a star. 00:10 Elgin Morayshire Bright flickering light, with changing colours - red, white and green. 08:35 Shrewsbury Shropshire One circular, gold coloured object. 09:50 Porthcawl Mid Glamorgan A star size, bright object. Was blue/white in colour. 23:45 Walthamstow Lights in the sky. They moved, stopped and then zoomed off. 19:10 Bristol One object, like an oval pebble, white on top and black underneath. 00:30 Swansea West Glamorgan A very bright, white light in the sky, moving fast. 00:00 Wakefield West Yorkshire One bright, white light that was moving very slowly in an unusual way. North Yorkshire Was a hazy shape, had three lights at the bottom like traffic lights, surrounded by a fog. 22:45 Wallingford Oxfordshire One white object with diffused light. 23:15 Cumnock Looked similar to a division sign - two stars either side of line. 22:00 Yatton nr Bristol One object, bigger than a star. Bright, but had no colours. 09:00 Kilmarnock A red and white flashing light that was moving extremely fast. 18:55 Eckington South Yorkshire Two black spheres close to each other. There were no lights at all, and they were movin One to four bright triangular objects, that then changed to a round shape. They were all white. (Were there for one hour). 16:00 Bewdley