The Paranormal Database

Aurora?

Location: Ness (Outer Hebrides) - Skies over the area
Type: UFO
Date / Time: Mid-1990s
Further Comments: The strange doughnut-shaped exhaust trail left across the sky is said by some to have been created by the top secret US hypersonic Aurora spy plane.

Soldier Shot by UFO

Location: Newbiggon on Sea (Northumberland) - Old RAF base
Type: UFO
Date / Time: September 1942
Further Comments: A soldier once based here alleged, in later life, to have been abducted while on guard duty at the base. Remembering the abduction from his dreams, the man claimed he fell unconscious after being hit by a thin beam of light.

Orange Ball

Location: Newcastle Under Lyme (Staffordshire) - Over Wolstanton Marsh
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 03 February 1985
Further Comments: A police officer reported watching a spherical orange object pass directly overhead, moving from north to south. Three other witnesses were with the officer at the time.

Orange Lights

Location: Northrepps (Norfolk) - Sky above North Walsham Road
Type: UFO
Date / Time: July 2015
Further Comments: A witness reported watching dozens of bright orange lights high up in the air. The lights were visible for several minutes before fading out and were compared to missile countermeasures used by military aircraft.

Banana

Location: NW2 (Greater London) - Above Wembley Stadium
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 15 and 17 March 1985
Further Comments: A flying banana shaped object was seen in the sky over the stadium a couple of times. It was described as bright and made up of several different colours.

Scareship

Location: NW2 (Greater London) - Dollis Hill
Type: UFO
Date / Time: February 1932
Further Comments: A possible early ufo encounter. A married couple spotted two men wearing caps working on a cylinder-shaped craft perched on the ground. As the married couple approached for a better look, the men disappeared, and the craft took off.

Bus Sized UFO

Location: Oldham (Greater Manchester) - Saddleworth Moor, near Dovestones Reservoir
Type: UFO
Date / Time: December 2006
Further Comments: Saddleworth Moor has been home to many strange and curious sightings of UFOs over the years, the largest of which was the size of a British double decker bus seen in 1975. More recently, six lights spread out in a hexagon pattern which vanished after several seconds were seen in the sky, quickly followed by a sighting of a strange van which also vanished.

Orford Ness, Suffolk.

Pair of Lights

Location: Orford (Suffolk) - Orford Ness
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: A couple of men watched two lights hovering quite close to the water, which darted off at incredible speed as they approached. The area was home to Project Cobra Mist, which involved radar waves that followed the earth's curvature.

Power Cut

Location: Ormskirk (Lancashire) - Southport Road
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 1979 or 1980
Further Comments: A witness recalled how bright orange lights had moved across this area and cars stopped, their power drained. Fazakerley Hospital windows were damaged on the same night.

Fifty Pence

Location: Outer London: Croydon (Greater London) - Purley Way
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 1970s, 07:30h
Further Comments: A witness walking to the nearby college suddenly realised there was no traffic on the roads. Something made him look up only to see a large a fifty pence (heptagon) shaped craft hovering silently in the sky. It had a red underbelly, bright silver sides and moved from left to right. The witness looked down briefly, during which time the craft started to move away at incredible speed. The witness chased it across the road (traffic had appeared again) but it had disappeared. The witness later found out that he had lost an hour of time.

V

Location: Outer London: Uxbridge (Greater London) - Skies over Hillingdon
Type: UFO
Date / Time: January 1985
Further Comments: Larger than a jumbo jet, this V shaped craft was only spotted for a few seconds before disappearing.

An old postcard of Paignton in Devon.

Light Show

Location: Paignton (Devon) - Skies over the area
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 23 September 2007, between midnight and 02:00h
Further Comments: Several witnesses in different areas of Paignton reported seeing up to one hundred orange, green and red lights in the sky. Witness accounts varied - one person said they moved in formation, while another reported some were moving to the left while others to the right. One person reported a blue light that the other ufos moved towards.

Yellow Lights

Location: Paxton (Lothian) - Skies above village
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 12 March 2007
Further Comments: A driver stopped his car to watch five large yellow lights hanging in the sky above the village. The balls disappeared after thirty seconds.

Flying Pyramid

Location: Pentyrch (South Glamorgan) - Garth Mountain
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 26 February 2016
Further Comments: A Chameleon exercise by the UK armed forces has also been named as a UFO coverup, involving aircraft chasing a green glowing light and a strange illuminated pyramid landing in woodland.

Green Flash

Location: Pershore (Worcestershire) - Skies above the area
Type: UFO
Date / Time: Circa 2005
Further Comments: One witness reported seeing a green flash in the sky, followed by a green light 'swirling' before vanishing.

Skies over Peterborough.

Scareship

Location: Peterborough (Cambridgeshire) - Skies over Peterborough
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 23 March 1909
Further Comments: Seen by two police officers, this UFO resembled a large airship, travelling at a then unheard of speed.

Cassiopeia

Location: Plymouth (Devon) - Allendale Road
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 04 April 1996, 00:25h
Further Comments: While studying the lunar eclipse, a witness watched a bright red star-like object rise forty-five degrees from the horizon. The star then split into two, then divided into four, with a final split into either eight or ten evenly sized lights which took a form like Cassiopeia before swiftly crossing westward across the sky. The witness later read that similar objects had been seen over Dorset on the same night, about an hour before their sighting.

Glowing Seagull-Shape

Location: Plymouth (Devon) - Sky (east) viewed from Patna Place
Type: UFO
Date / Time: Winter 1992/1993
Further Comments: A witness spotted a very bright white 'star' which turned bright red. As it grew closer, the object's shape resembled a massive glowing seagull. The wings did not flap, and the object glided silently. The air around the object glowed red as though surrounded by fog, even though the sky was extremely clear. The witness found it difficult to gauge the actual size but thought it exceptionally large. After between ten and fifteen minutes, the object disappeared towards Cornwall.

Orange Lights

Location: Polmont (Stirling) - Skies of village
Type: UFO
Date / Time: November 2017
Further Comments: Four orange lights were seen moving across the sky at night, their speed said to be several times quicker than other aircraft.

Ship

Location: Portland (Dorset) - Exact location not known, was observed from Lyme
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 23 April 1661, 15:00h
Further Comments: A strange ship appeared in the skies over Portland for seven or eight minutes. Sails, rigging, and men armed with pikes could be observed on board, and the vessel was accompanied by stormy weather.

No Aliens

Location: Porton Down (Wiltshire) - Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 2016
Further Comments: While rumoured to contain either alien bodies and/or downed UAPs, the Porton Down web entry on gov.uk states 'No aliens, either alive or dead have ever been taken to Porton Down or any other Dstl site'.

HALO

Location: Preston (Lancashire) - BAE Wharton
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 1990s
Further Comments: BAE Wharton was believed to be the home of the UK stealth aircraft project, HALO being the project name. At the time, some believed this to be the result of back engineering a downed UFO.

Silent Vulcan

Location: Preston (Lancashire) - Sky near to the university campus
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 1996
Further Comments: Christened the 'Silent Vulcan' by students because of its similarity to a Vulcan bomber (but without any sound), this large aircraft was seen by a student in the skies of Preston. He stated the object shot off towards the dock area, moving at incredible speed.

Space Man

Location: Rainham (Kent) - Sky above Medway
Type: UFO
Date / Time: May 2017
Further Comments: Mark Taylor photographed a strange man floating high in the sky. After local press picked up the story it was revealed the sighting occurred on the same day a child had their life-sized stormtrooper balloon swept away by the wind.

Rugby Ball

Location: Ramsden Heath (Essex) - Skies over Hanningfield Reservoir
Type: UFO
Date / Time: February (?) 1985
Further Comments: A zigzagging rugby ball shaped object, larger than an aircraft, was reported by a witness. The ufo was surrounded by red and orange lights.