The Paranormal Database

Airship

Location: Caerphilly (Mid Glamorgan) - Caerphilly Mountain
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 18 May 1909
Further Comments: Two men speaking in a strange tongue were seen by a witness here - they made their escape in an airship. Though it is thought they were German, no country in the world had an airship capable of making that kind of flight at the time.

Rugby Ball

Location: Caistor St Edmund (Norfolk) - Caistor Hall Country Club
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 1965, around 16:00h
Further Comments: While stopping at the club to pick up a coat, Stanley Taylor watched an object hovering in the sky. He said it was the shape of a rugby ball and around the size of two double-decker buses. The dull silver object gave off a hum and, with a sudden 'whoosh' flew off, quickly becoming a dot in the clouds. Another person nearby was said to have heard the sound but did not witness the object.

Spinning Balls

Location: Caldbeck (Cumbria) - Crossroads at Goose Green
Type: UFO
Date / Time: March 1998, approximately 20:00h
Further Comments: Two witnesses watched three large white spinning balls holding equal distance from each other for around twelve minutes. The balls eventually moved at speed; one flew left, one right, and the third straight up, all vanishing from sight within a couple of seconds.

The British Roswell?

Location: Caldbeck (Cumbria) - Cumbrian fells - exact area not known
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 04 March 1954
Further Comments: A disc shaped alien spacecraft crash landed in this area. Three people witnessed the event; a farmer and son who were held by military personnel for two weeks, and a poacher who claimed to have seen two bodies, with 'faces like the Devil's' (the poacher had a breakdown soon after). The RAF (?) removed all evidence of the incident from the area.

Upturned Dustbin

Location: Camborne (Cornwall) - Between Troon and Camborne
Type: UFO
Date / Time: Autumn 2009, around 12:00h
Further Comments: Two witnesses spotted an object resembling an upturned large black dustbin moving silently across the sky, slowly rotating. They thought the object to be around six feet (1.8 metres) high and three feet (0.9 metres) wide, slowly rotating, and did not appear to be affected by the wind. The witnesses tried to give chase in a car, but the object had vanished.

Circle of White Light

Location: Cardiff (South Glamorgan) - Cowbridge Road, Ely
Type: UFO
Date / Time: Circa February / March 2023, early afternoon
Further Comments: Travelling along a busy road, one witness watched a circle of white light slowly cross the rooftops of four houses, as if a huge torch had been shone on the surfaces, before disappearing. Nothing could be seen in the sky, and there were no vehicles on the road that could have caused the light.

Solway Spaceman

Location: Carlisle (Cumbria) - Coastal marshland NW of town
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 24 May 1964
Further Comments: Jim Templeton, while taking family photographs, caught on film a strange white figure wearing what appears to be a spacesuit floating behind his daughter. Jim stated that the figure was not visible at the time of taking the photograph. Author David Clarke wrote that the figure is likely to have been Templeton's wife Annie, the 'spaceman' illusion created by overexposure.

Bright Light

Location: Carnwath (Lanarkshire) - A70
Type: UFO
Date / Time: December 1998, around 20.30h
Further Comments: Initially thought to be a star, a small bright ball of light started to follow this witness in her car as she returned from Christmas shopping. As the car reached the edge of Carnwath, the ball suddenly shot into the sky and disappeared.

Aurora Borealis is rare, but not unknown, over England.

Streaming Light

Location: Chapel-en-le-Frith (Derbyshire) - Skies over village
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 30 March 1716, 21:00h - 00:00h
Further Comments: Now thought likely to be Aurora Borealis, parish records mention a bright light over the skies of the village, changing from white to the colours of the rainbow. Occasionally flashes of light and smoke could be seen.

White Shape

Location: Chawton (Hampshire) - Skies above the town
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 22 June 2002, 21:35h
Further Comments: Filmed by a witness for several minutes, a round ball of white light darted around the sky. The light changed shape and size several times before finally disappearing behind a dark cloud.

Unidentified Snowy Object

Location: Chinley (Derbyshire) - Skies over the village
Type: UFO
Date / Time: January 2018
Further Comments: A witness here watched a bright object for around twenty seconds before it disappeared into a dark and heavy snow cloud.

Dumbbell Shaped Craft

Location: Church Stowe (Northamptonshire) - Road through village
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 22 November 1978
Further Comments: Elsie Oakensen saw this craft as she drove through the village, returning from work. Passing underneath, her car lost power, and she experienced fifteen minutes of 'missing time' - later hypnotic regression revealed she was taken on board the craft.

Downed Cigar

Location: Cleveland (North Yorkshire) - Exact location not known
Type: UFO
Date / Time: November or December 2003
Further Comments: A rumour floating around on the internet said that a cigar-shaped ufo, around six metres in length, was forced down by two RAF fighters. The crashed craft deeply embedded itself in mud, and rather move it straight away, authorities buried the ufo with the intent to move it once interest died down. Whether this happened is unknown.

Anchor

Location: Clonmacnoise (County Offaly) - Unknown church
Type: UFO
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: During Mass, the congregation at this church were interrupted as an anchor dropped from the sky and caught on the church door. The people investigated and spotted a ship floating above them; one of the crew diving overboard and swimming towards them through the air towards the anchor. The congregation grabbed the sailor, but the bishop demanded that they let him go. As the group released the man, he floated upwards and once on board the ship, someone cut the rope attached to the anchor - the ship sailed off into the sky. The anchor was said to have been on display at the church.

Darting Light

Location: Colchester (Essex) - Sky over Titania Close
Type: UFO
Date / Time: September or October 1976
Further Comments: A group of children playing football watched a light dart around the sky at incredible speed. It momentarily stopped moving before darting off once again in the direction of the A12 road. The light later returned to the area and was seen by other witnesses.

Three Discs

Location: Conisborough (South Yorkshire) - Skies above town
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 28 March 1966
Further Comments: The famous black and white photograph of three discs flying over the town taken by a 15 year old schoolboy remains a mystery to this day.

White Light

Location: Conisholme (Lincolnshire) - Area around wind farm
Type: UFO
Date / Time: January 2009
Further Comments: After a wind turbine was found damaged (one blade bent, another laying on the ground), several theories emerged to explain why the incident had happened. County councillor Robert Palmer reported seeing a round white light which hovered near the area, while the media reported that John Harrison had seen a massive ball of light with something akin to tentacles reaching for the ground. While the 'ufo hit our turbine' stories were popular with the media, there is a high chance that the blade just fell off, hitting the second blade as it fell.

Corton beach, Suffolk.

Fog Bank with Flag

Location: Corton (Suffolk) - Beach
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 29 March 1890
Further Comments: In what could be an early UFO sighting, a man walking along the beach watched a localised 'fog bank' sitting on the sand, with a huge flagpole sticking out. After ten minutes, the object rose and faded from view.

Saucer

Location: Coventry (West Midlands) - Wyken Croft
Type: UFO
Date / Time: Summer 1972
Further Comments: While staying with relatives, a witness watched a saucer shaped object with blue lights. The saucer was bright metal, and the object hovered for a while before moving off at high speed. The witness ran downstairs to tell someone but was so shocked that they were unable to speak and soon realised that even although the sighting only appeared to last a few minutes, three hours had gone by.

Rockets

Location: Crawley (Sussex) - Skies from railway station
Type: UFO
Date / Time: Late November 1947
Further Comments: Witnesses outside Crawley railway station watched two rockets heading west, with other reports coming from across Sussex during the same week.

Flying Saucer with Lights

Location: Crosshouse (Ayrshire) - Sky above the village
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 2013
Further Comments: A mother thought her daughter had been attacked after hearing her screaming along the road. As she ran inside, the mother received a call from the mother of her daughter's friend who said that they had seen a flying saucer with coloured lights around it. The mother ran outside and spotted the object in the sky.

Ellipse

Location: Denham (Buckinghamshire) - Skies above Denham Valley
Type: UFO
Date / Time: October 1970
Further Comments: Watched by a family as it flew across the sky before stopping and hovering, this large metallic ellipse-shape had lights and an antenna. After half an hour, the craft faded from view.

Glowing Ball

Location: Detling (Kent) - Unidentified field
Type: UFO
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: One story said that eyewitnesses watched a glowing ball of light land in a field; when investigated, a burnt circular patch was discovered where the ball had been seen.

Silver Ball

Location: Devizes (Wiltshire) - A361 heading towards Avebury
Type: UFO
Date / Time: Spring 2023, midday
Further Comments: From the passenger seat, a witness watched a silver ball bearing-like object hovering in the sky. The large, stationary object hung quite low and did not move for two minutes, despite the windy conditions.

Four Balls

Location: Didsbury (Lancashire) - Sky looking north
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 04 May 2008, 23:10h
Further Comments: Four orange balls of light were spotted silently floating in the sky, forming a pyramid. They remained for quite some time.