UFO Reports from the UK 

UFOs over Cornwall

[ Updated: 03/07/2008 ]

30 May - 'West Country'

"Just wondering if anyone also saw an extremely bright light moving across the night sky of south west of England this evening.

The light was about twenty times the brightness of the surrounding stars, gliding across the night sky at a fixed speed until it faded from sight due to cloud cover at about the height of a passenger jet. There was no sound before or after the "object" went out of sight.

Could it have been the ISS? or Satellite? I look forward to hearing from you. This one has me scratching my head!"

The ISS did indeed make a prominent pass over SW England around the time of this sighting, reaching 45 deg elevation, on its previous pass it was almost overhead at 84 deg.

4 May 2008 - St. Austell

From "NR", who was with a work colleague:

"I would like to report a sighting of 13 orange/blue balls of lights over St Austell.

It was 00.15 on the 4th of May.  Me and my work mate was driving back to our depot at Par and seen the lights in the sky that moved across the sky - some moved very fast, and circled others. [I've] never seen any thing like it before - both of us were shocked of what we seen.

I got a few pic on the phone camera but not very good."

Again, this is highly suggestive of a launch/flight of fire lanterns - perhaps the orange/blue isn't usual, but such balloons have been marketed/retailed with coloured plastic envelopes (normally for daylight use) for at least 12-18 months.

July 5th 2004 - Camborne, Cornwall

Around 15 to 20 people watched the following in the early afternoon:

"We briefly, saw an unmarked smallish silver jet with blue tail, circling round. At first it was quite low, then it started to get higher. We then noticed what looked like a star/dot in the sky, this went on 4 about 5 mins (the jet circling the star/dot). I stopped looking for a few mins, looked up again and the jet had gone, and so too the tar/dot 'thing'. Shortly after there was a fighter in the area.

It was hot and sunny, no clouds."

 11 February 2003 - Hayle, Cornwall

A very precise and well observed sighting by 15-year old "HR":

Sighting Details

  • Time: Around 7:30-8:00pm

  • Location: Guildford Road, Hayle, Cornwall, UK

  • Weather: Few isolated cloud patches, no rain in last 12 hrs

  • Object: Three lights moving quite fast seeming to circle as it/they moved, there was a low humming noise which I could find no other source, the object/s then moved upwards and accelerated away

  • Other Witnesses: Unknown

  • Physical Affects: None as far as I know

  • Speed: seemed to be circling and travelling in a southerly direction

8 December 2000 - Cornwall

Again another very brief report via the internet, with a witness taking video footage of a UFO. 

The family were just leaving their home near Truro when they noticed some rottaing yellow lights in the sky, which were moving through the sky, in and out of cloud, before finally being lost to sight in thicker cloud.

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