The Paranormal Database

An old postcard showing Glasgow.

Fireballs

Location: Glasgow (Lanarkshire) - Skies above town
Type: UFO
Date / Time: December 1752
Further Comments: There are reports of two fireballs seen over the town during this month; one flew over the town while the second exploded, showering the area in sparks and hail stones.

Bright Ball

Location: Glendale, Isle of Skye (Highland) - Exact location not known
Type: UFO
Date / Time: Winter mid 1990s
Further Comments: Three men watched a bright glowing ball, between four to five feet in diameter pass a few feet over a house and descend into a field where it disappeared in a small flash of light. The following day they went to check where the ball had vanished but found nothing. One witness said the ball had a white centre but glowed different colours at the edges.

Sharp Turner

Location: Glendale, Isle of Skye (Highland) - Skies in the area
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 31 December 1998
Further Comments: Two men walking dogs along the shore at dusk spotted a bright star-like light at high altitude. One witness said that he would have passed it off as a military jet, but it made an instant 140 degree turn before disappearing into clouds.

Flying Square

Location: Glossop (Derbyshire) - Road between Glossop and Chapel-en-le-Frith
Type: UFO
Date / Time: August 1962
Further Comments: Teacher Michael Valance encountered a flying box hovering over the moors. He reported the UFO as glowing and having four bright windows. The craft vanished after several minutes.

Flying Wheelie Bin

Location: Gorleston (Norfolk) - Skies over Brasenose Avenue area
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 24 August 2007
Further Comments: Several people spotted a strange wheelie bin-shaped object flying silently across the sky, fire seemingly coming from the bottom of the craft. One man photographed the object, and although the images were reasonably clear, the object remained unidentifiable until it was reported in the local press the 'craft' was a home-made hot air balloon.

Huge Shape

Location: Grantham (Lincolnshire) - Skies over the area
Type: UFO
Date / Time: Circa 1980/1981
Further Comments: A family driving home spotted a huge object in the sky, so large that it appeared to blot out the sky as it moved slowly across. When the family arrived home, one phoned the local radio station to report it and was told 'many' others had also reported it, and that the RAF had told the station that it was a crashing Russian spy satellite.

Circular Lights

Location: Great Ryburgh (Norfolk) - Skies in the area
Type: UFO
Date / Time: Mid-1990s
Further Comments: At least three witnesses observed a very large circle of flashing lights for ten minutes as it crossed the sky. The lights moved both clockwise and anticlockwise, while another set pulsated.

An old postcard of Greenock in Scotland.

Green Light

Location: Greenock (Inverclyde) - Skies over area
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 01 May 2008
Further Comments: This witness spotted a solid green glowing ufo with an orange trail as it crossed the sky heading east. The object generated no sound.

Abduction

Location: Grimsby (Lincolnshire) - Tetney Lock
Type: UFO
Date / Time: March 2000
Further Comments: This female abductee reported watching a male human vivisected while she was on board the alien craft. Later the same day, several witnesses reported lights and strange shapes in the sky.

Triangular Craft

Location: Guildford (Surrey) - A3, Guildford Flyover
Type: UFO
Date / Time: October 2006, around 20:00h
Further Comments: Two police officers spotted a bright white light in the distance while driving along the A3. As they drove under the light at the flyover, they could make out three white lights on a black triangle shape with a dim pulsating red light in the centre. Other drivers had pulled over and watched the shape. Eight more lights were spotted drifting over Guildford.

Red Light & Blue Man

Location: Hainault Forest Country Park (Essex) - Lake and Cabin Hill
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 05 and 08 May 1977
Further Comments: Two police officers watched a large red light moving by the lake - as they approached it vanished suddenly. The officers then spotted a strange white object; this also vanished. Three days later, two men walking their dogs encountered a blue figure that stood around 2.5 metres tall and 1.25 metres wide. Like the UFOs, this figure also vanished.

Red Lights

Location: Halewood (Lancashire) - General area
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 2003/2004
Further Comments: Seven red lights were seen bobbing up and down as they slowly moved across the sky before fading away. The witness was told the lights were actually 'light reflecting off migrating birds', although they had not seen this effect prior to the sighting or since. The village was considered a hotspot for UFO sightings during the early 2000s.

CE III

Location: Halkyn Mountain (Clwyd) - Exact location not known
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 1982
Further Comments: An alien contactee claimed to have witnessed a ufo landing on the mountain, where the craft left imprints. The witness was later contacted by a strange being with short curly hair who wore a blue jumpsuit.

The UFO that did not crash.

Downed Craft Hoax

Location: Haltwhistle (Northumberland) - Ten miles north of town in a marshy area
Type: UFO
Date / Time: December 1968
Further Comments: A witness wrote to the RAF claiming he had seen a large silver disc crash and that he had investigated inside the craft before it had (mostly) sunk into the marsh. The RAF asked the police to investigate; the witness admitted that while he had seen the craft and thought it was going to land, he had fabricated the rest of the tale.

Hanbury Orbs

Location: Hanbury (Staffordshire) - Skies near the village
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 2005
Further Comments: A BBC cameraman caught three bright lights hovering over the Malverns on video. A local UFO group named them as the 'Hanbury Orbs', a group of lights commonly seen above the landscape in this region.

Black Cylinder

Location: Harlow Hill (Northumberland) - West of Harlow Hill
Type: UFO
Date / Time: March 1985
Further Comments: Four people watched a black cylindrical object, possibly rotating, for ten minutes as it crossed the sky. The object changed direction once, moving north to south before turning west.

Blue Spinner

Location: Hartlepool (Durham) - Brierton Lane
Type: UFO
Date / Time: October 1959
Further Comments: A witness watched a bright blue object 'like a spinning top' cross the sky and quickly fade into space.

Yellow Oval

Location: Haytor (Devon) - Skies above Liverton area
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 1998
Further Comments: Two yellow, oval bright lights were seen silently moving over the moors from Haytor by people standing in a carpark. The lights moved in a swooping motion and would loop the loop.

Flashing Lights

Location: Hemblington (Norfolk) - Field in the area
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 1997
Further Comments: Five people out metal detecting all watched the sky light up with flashing red, blue, purple and green lights which illuminated the field which they stood on. The lights stopped suddenly.

Pill-Shaped Craft

Location: Hemswell (Lincolnshire) - Skies above the village
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 2018
Further Comments: One witness recalled hearing a strange noise from the sky and, looking up, spotted three metallic, pill-shaped containers flying through the air attached by a strong chord.

William Loosley's Abduction

Location: High Wycombe (Buckinghamshire) - Woodland near the town, but exact location non-existent
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 4 / 5 October 1871 (fictitious)
Further Comments: A hoax penned by David Langford, the premise being that the great, great granddaughter of William Loosley discovered a hidden account of his UFO sighting on the 4 October 1871, one day before William mysteriously vanished forever.

Flying Cross

Location: Holworth (Dorset) - Skies over Moigne Down
Type: UFO
Date / Time: October 1967
Further Comments: Two police officers chased a large cross-shaped UFO in this area as it flew low overhead. Another witness observed the craft later in the evening hovering and spinning on the spot.

Bright Lights

Location: Holymoorside (Derbyshire) - Windy Fields Road
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 06 February 2020, 19:30h
Further Comments: While walking their dog, a witness watched several fast moving bright lights high in the sky performing irregular manoeuvres. The witness later checked for aircraft in the area, but the UFOs could not be explained by the few aircraft which were out on the night in question.

Fast Ball

Location: Hull (East Riding of Yorkshire) - Noddle Hill Playing Fields
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 1992
Further Comments: At least four people watched a fast moving ball, around the size of a car, pass overhead. After the object moved away, the witnesses were left with an odd static feeling.

Small or Far Away?

Location: Idstone (Oxfordshire) - East of area
Type: UFO
Date / Time: February 1985
Further Comments: A pilot and another witness stopped their car to have a better look at an orange oval ufo. The pilot did not recognise the oval as any aircraft that she was aware off, and because of the lack of clouds and landmarks could not determine whether the object was large and very far away or smaller and closer.