The Paranormal Database

Missing Time

Location: Bordon (Hampshire) - Forest Road / Hendon Road area
Type: UFO
Date / Time: June 1999 and March 2001
Further Comments: Two friends driving from the hospital to one of their parent's homes, a two minute trip, lost one hour forty minutes of their lives. Neither was aware of any periods of unconsciousness or 'jumps' in time. Two years later, another report came in of a missing time episode in the area; this time the witness lost three hours during a five minute walk.

Round Object

Location: Brantham (Suffolk) - Slough Road
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 1986, around 22:00h
Further Comments: A brother and sister watched a large round metal looking object with blue and red lights around the sides hovering over the field opposite their home. It was stationery for around three minutes, before disappearing in a flash.

Red and Orange Spheres

Location: Bridlington (East Riding of Yorkshire) - Dotterel junction area
Type: UFO
Date / Time: March 2007
Further Comments: Witness David Hinde reported two spherical lights in the sky, glowing red and orange. He watched them for ten minutes while they darted around, defying the movements of conventional aircraft.

Drone-Like UFO

Location: Bridlington (East Riding of Yorkshire) - Off South Beach
Type: UFO
Date / Time: September 2017
Further Comments: A witness watched a small drone-like UFO above the ocean before it vanished without trace.

An old postcard showing Brixham in Devon.

Domed Craft

Location: Brixham (Devon) - Skies over town
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 28 April 1967
Further Comments: This craft hovered over the town for around an hour before disappearing.

Saucer Occupants

Location: Broad Haven (Dyfed) - Broad Haven County Primary School
Type: UFO
Date / Time: February 1977
Further Comments: A large disc was seen landing near the school by fourteen of its pupils, some of whom also said men with pointed ears and dressed in silver clothing had climbed out. For several months after the event, sightings continued in the area.

Silver Suited Figure

Location: Broad Haven (Dyfed) - Ripperston Farm
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 23 April 1977
Further Comments: A seven foot (2.13 metres) tall silver clad entity was seen by Billy and Susan Coombs from the window of their farm. The family were plagued by other ufo related experiences around this time, although in 1996 businessman Glyn Edwards claimed he had wandered the area in a silver suit as a joke.

Glowing Cross

Location: Broadstairs (Kent) - Beach
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 1950s
Further Comments: While gathering shellfish on the beach, a married couple spotted a glowing cross in the sky.

Bright Object

Location: Broughton Astley (Leicestershire) - Sky above the village
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 1998
Further Comments: Possibly the same object seen from Burbage in the same year, a child watched a bright object hovering and moving at speed towards the direction of Croft village. After a few minutes, the object paused before shooting directly upwards, moving faster than anything the witness had ever seen.

Flashing Orange

Location: Bubbenhall (Warwickshire) - Stoneleigh Road
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 11 February 2008
Further Comments: A couple in their car thought a falling flashing object was going to hit them. They reported the object as being half the size of their Vauxhall Corsa, flashing orange, and being a dinnerplate shape. The ufo landed in nearby fields, but what became of it is unknown.

Plasma Ball

Location: Burbage (Leicestershire) - Park along Grove Road
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 1998
Further Comments: Six young people watched a glowing ball hovering above the park. They originally believed the light to be from a police helicopter's searchlight before realising there was no rotor blade sounds. The ball remained for five minutes before shooting upwards and disappearing.

Snaking Lights

Location: Burgess Hill (Sussex) - London Road area
Type: UFO
Date / Time: September 1995, 08 July 2017
Further Comments: A married couple, along with other witnesses, observed five circular lights in the sky. The lights were different colours and 'snaked' for a few minutes before all turning white and shooting off in different directions. Twenty-two years later a witness heard a 'TV white noise' sound emerging from the sky which lasted around 20 minutes.

Boomerang

Location: Burgess Hill (Sussex) - Royal George Road
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 1994 or 1995
Further Comments: While outside, a male witness heard aircraft engines and looked to the sky. He watched a 737 appear briefly in the gap of the clouds, closely followed by another craft which was twice the size of the recognisable airplane. The latter craft was boomerang shaped with squared wing tips and dark grey or black in colour. After disappearing into the clouds, the witness did not see either craft again.

Flying Arrow

Location: Burnley (Lancashire) - Over Rowley lake, Brunshaw road
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 01 October 2011, around midnight
Further Comments: A night fisherman spotted an arrow shaped object travelling at a fantastic speed above him. The craft was silent, had a light at each corner and left no contrails. The witness believed it could have been manmade. And possibly connected to a nearby military base.

Ball Lightning?

Location: Bury (Sussex) - A29, Bury Hill
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 24 August 2012, 20:30h
Further Comments: A van driver reported an extremely bright ball of light the size of a steering wheel hovering above the road. After around three seconds it darted past the van, the driver estimating it moving between 80 and 90 mph.

Four Spheres

Location: Bury St Edmunds (Suffolk) - Howard estate, heading towards Fornham St Martin
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 21 April 2007, 09:27h
Further Comments: The Ministry of Defence confirmed that Suffolk Police had handed over a report of four black spheres which one person had seen moving across the sky in formation.

Revolving Lights

Location: Bury St Edmunds (Suffolk) - Sky over the Cathedral
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 29 November 2008, 22:30h
Further Comments: Several people, including a member of staff at the Cathedral, reported observing a luminous grey UFO over the area. One witness contacted the police.

Helicopter

Location: Buxton (Derbyshire) - Skies above Harpur Hill area
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 1973-1974
Further Comments: A phantom helicopter was reported flying around the area at night several times over a two year period. Press and police were unable to discover who or what was behind the mysterious craft.

Flying Wedge

Location: Buxton (Lancashire) - 2500 ft above the area
Type: UFO
Date / Time: February 1996
Further Comments: Two pilots in a 737 reported narrowly avoiding a large black wedge shaped UFO while flying into the airport from Milan. The object passed so close to the passenger aircraft that one of the pilots ducked.

Something strange hovering over a ruined abbey.

Silver Disc

Location: Byland (North Yorkshire) - Byland Abbey
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 1290 (UFO), 24 December 1850 (ghost)
Further Comments: The occupants of the abbey were said to have been terrorised when a large radiant silver object flew overhead just as they sat down to eat. Many years later, a passing farmer listened to phantom plain chant while watching a ghostly form move around the gravestones.

Dark Disc

Location: Caernarfon (Gwynedd) - Skies over the castle
Type: UFO
Date / Time: September 2015
Further Comments: A dark disc-like object was filmed flying over the castle.

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.