The Paranormal Database

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.

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.

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.

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.

Red Ball

Location: Reading (Berkshire) - Skies above Basingstoke Road, Whitley
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 14 April 2006
Further Comments: Three teenagers spotted a strange red glowing orb flying overhead as they were out walking.

The sky over Redruth.

Spinning Saucer

Location: Redruth (Cornwall) - Sky over town
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 09 July 1976
Further Comments: A schoolteacher and several pupils watched a white spinning disc with pulsating lights pass overhead.

Radar/Visual Sighting

Location: Rendlesham (Suffolk) - Bentwaters USAF
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 13 August 1956
Further Comments: Several UFOs were detected by the base's radar, crossing the North Sea at speeds unmatched by any contemporary aircraft. One UFO was intercepted by a US fighter, but was soon lost.

Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk.

CEII

Location: Rendlesham (Suffolk) - Rendlesham Forest - near former USAF Base
Type: UFO
Date / Time: December 1981 (UFO), circa 1995 (big cats)
Further Comments: Once only famous in ufological circles, the story of the landing of an unknown craft at Rendlesham during the early 1980s still causes controversy today. Unrelated to the UFO sighting, the Big Cats of Suffolk website reported there had been a string of big cat sightings in the forest prior to 1995, with occasional sightings still reported.

Green Light

Location: Rickmansworth (Hertfordshire) - Skies over the town
Type: UFO
Date / Time: February 2010
Further Comments: Two police officers watched a bright green light quickly pass over the town and disappear over the horizon.

Diamond Formation

Location: Ring's End (Cambridgeshire) - Skies above March Road
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 10 April 2008, 23:00h
Further Comments: Andrew Warren and his son watched a diamond formation of lights as they passed overhead. Though the source of the lights appeared close, there was no sound, and the pattern appeared to hover before moving away. They also saw two other patterns of light, one of which was a 'V' shape.

Black Oval

Location: Rochester (Kent) - Sky above Carnation Road
Type: UFO
Date / Time: Mid 1990s
Further Comments: One witness watched as a black oval shape unnervingly blocked out the night sky as it passed by.

Orange Jellyfish

Location: Romford (Essex) - Area over Acacia Avenue
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 30 August 2005
Further Comments: A family of four observed a set of three orange lights, 'undulating like a jellyfish', drifting over the town and heading upwards before they disappeared amongst the stars. The UFOs were also witnessed by two people on the outskirts of Romford.

Spaceship Alley

Location: Rossendale Valley (Lancashire) - General area
Type: UFO
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: This part of the county has so many reports of strange nocturnal lights that it justifies the dramatic nickname. However, cynics name British Aerospace as a possible source for the displays.

Alien Fairy

Location: Rowley Regis (West Midlands) - Bluestone Walk
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 4 January 1979
Further Comments: Three figures, all less than four foot tall with tissue paper wings, drifted into a house in the town and interrogated a housewife for an hour. She said they looked like fairies, though they had laser beams on top of their heads and left via an eight foot long UFO.

Circular Object

Location: Saxlingham (Norfolk) - Holt Road heading towards B1156
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 2010
Further Comments: A witness pulled their car over to have a better look at a circular object hovering about twenty metres above the road, as did another car behind them. The object did not make a sound and the witness estimated it was around five metres in diameter. The witness then lost their nerve and drove off, as did the occupant in the other car.

Glowing Light

Location: Scarborough (North Yorkshire) - Reasty Hill, Silpho Moor
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 21 November 1957
Further Comments: A forty-six centimetre disc covered with strange hieroglyphics was found by three men who were investigating the sighting of a ufo which glowed eerily in the night sky.