UFO Reports from the UK 

UFOs over Suffolk

[ Updated: 03/07/2008 ]

3 June 2008 - Kesgrave

Another sighting from JK:

"I was standing in the back garden having a crafty smoke and admiring the stars, when I noticed two 'stars' raising upwards from behind a tree at a slow but constant rate, they were parallel to each other and if it was a craft it must have been massive. It continued at a steady rate until it got right up and faded away. Again no sound and no other lights and there was no air traffic at all.

From Kesgrave I would have said it came from the Bucklesham/ Felixstowe direction. what ever it was it was big and a long way away and the lights were exactly like stars."

5 April 2008 - Felixstowe

A report from "AF":

Tonight between 11:30pm and midnight in Maybush Lane Felixstowe.

My girlfriend and I were walking and saw 5 “sky lanterns???” in the sky heading towards the sea from inland. They were travelling unusually slow and had, what looked like, flames at the front of the object. I couldn’t tell if they were low flying or massive. They appeared in 5 minute increments. They flew across our path for approx 10 too 15 seconds before dissipating."

We are not aware of other reports from the area, but the description is very suggestive of yet another fire balloon/lantern event.

3 November 2007 - Bury St Edmunds

The witness and other family members noticed three lights in the sky at roughly 9:30 pm:

"They were travelling quite slowly. At first we thought they may have been aircraft or helicopter lights but were moving too slow. The lights were all the same colour, they were a Red White colour.

Then as quickly as we had seen them they disappeared. They travelled over Bury St. Edmunds. We have not seen anything like it before. It was not a firework as it travelled a steady path and remained the same colour through out. When the lights disappeared they seemed to fade away, then they were gone."

The characteristics of the colour, flight and indeed the way the lights disappeared strongly suggest this was another flight of fire lanterns - these become more of a nuisance in ufological terms each year - especially here in the UK.

4 August 2007 - Lowestoft

"On Saturday whilst at home in Lowestoft, that apparently familiar object appeared shortly after 10.30 pm. On the following Tuesday I heard Suffolk radio discussing the subject.

My first sighting witnessed the object relatively low west of my position, and it was fast. On all successive passes the object was seen high & directly above, approximately 15 minutes between passes. This continued until around midnight.

On the first, lower, faster pass I am certain an array of 'normal' aircraft recognition lights was visible, but not on the higher passes.

The most unusual aspects of this sighting which I have never experienced previously is the vivid orange glow & absence of any noise.

I suspect USAF may have a silent propulsion in the making, but why test here when they have huge expanses of 'private' desert in which to experiment on home soil?"

We were in regular contact with the witness on this report, not least as Brian James was going to be in the Lowestoft/Kessingland area in September 2007*. Apparently this UFO has been seen sporadically since 2002; from the time between passes this clearly is not orbital, although it is difficult to conceive how this 'vehicle' is effectively orbiting the Earth as it gains altitude in only 15 minutes; with this sort of velocity you break Earth's gravity and do not orbit - so either it is using a lot of energy to gain altitude but orbit, or there may be a flight/series of these going over.

*Despite 6 hours of skywatching on 3 clear nights on Kessingland Beach, nothing unusual was seen!

May 2007 - Kesgrave

From JK:

"Not sure of the exact date, but around midnight a triangle shaped thing flew over with a light (engine?) in each corner. it came over quite a way up but it was going way faster than an aircraft and absolutely no sound, that was the scary bit as I often watch planes over head at night."

19 May 2007 - Suffolk

"Last night a friend and I both witnessed two sightings within 30 seconds of each other of an unidentified object flying north east over Aldeburgh (Suffolk). We assumed the first to perhaps be a comet, but were struck by its glowing orange colour, somewhat like a round fireball.

The second of these sightings was identical to the first, but we were able to focus on it for longer- and the object appeared to be shaped like a cone, or spinning top- again a very bright, glowing orange colour, as if on fire, and rotating very quickly while crossing the sky. This second sighting confirmed that these objects could not be possibly have been comets, nor could they have been aircraft, due to their colour, round cone-like shape, and the speed at which they were travelling. It was a clear night, and there was very little light pollution.

The sightings were at roughly at 10.00pm. Neither of us have any particular interest or belief in the existence of UFOs- which is why these sightings seemed striking enough to write in about."

After some discussion with the witness, he concluded that it was likely that they had been watching fire lanterns.

27 September 2003 - Felixstowe

Perhaps a very significant report when considered with the Ipswich report (below) 4 weeks earlier?  From "KS":

"My oldest son was with me in Felixstowe on Saturday 27th at approx. 11.15pm, fishing from Landguard Point. When my son asked me what the lights in the sky was. I told him to concentrate on the fishing. I thought children, they never stop.

It went quiet for a moment then he said "Dad there's a UFO in the sky!" My response being, right lets pack up and go home you've been warned. Then finally he shouted, what is that and I finally looked across to the dock and sure enough there was a gigantic black triangle moving away from the north sea and towards Felixstowe. We watched the aircraft for 1 to 1.5 minutes max.

The craft itself when I first saw it appeared to have a lot of tiny white lights underneath it, which went out as it moved away, but as it moved away the orange lights which have been reported before by many different people appeared to be at the back of the craft however they where not permanent they appeared to flash in a random order. But yes there was a massive thing in the skies and no noise other than the docks in the background.

If that doesn't seem unbelievable enough the craft then slowly disappeared, but not in a manner it had moved away quickly more in a ( well as if it was fading into mist ). I have only lived in Ipswich for 3 years and thought you had to go to bizarre places and mix with bizarre people to stand a chance of seeing anything so extreme."

This is the second report in 4 weeks of a large FT flying in the Ipswich/Felixstowe area - I suggest anyone in that region keeps their eyes open, just in case...

1 September 2003 - Ipswich, Suffolk

A report phoned into our hotline.

On Monday 1st September at 9.15pm, the witness, "MK" (pseudonym), went out into her garden to see if Mars was visible (it had yet to rise over the tree line), and was looking at the brighter stars becoming visible in a very clear sky.

MK's attention was then taken by what she terms as in incredible sight - a big black triangle/delta moving eastwards in the direction of Felixstowe and the North Sea. This was what we might term a classic FT - a large (when compared to conventional aircraft that MK is familiar with over the same area) dense black triangle, with a large yellow-orange light at each corner.

MK thought this FT was fairly low, but it was totally silent, which MK thought odd, as she would have been able to hear the noise of any sort of conventional engines. What really puzzled MK at the time was the fact that instead of flying with a 'pointed end' first, this FT - in a common trait for such UFOs - was flying 'sideways', so it didn't appear to be flying with the fuselage/delta providing aerodynamic lift.

This FT was in sight for only a few seconds before it 'vanished' - again a very common trait of such FTs (see also the FTs seen at Rendlesham on 31 May).

MK, who had never seen what she would think of as a UFO before was amazed at what she had just fleetingly seen, and until she looked at websites such as APRA, had no idea that this type of FT UFO was very common. MK continued to mull over what she had seen, and looked for a logical explanation that this was a conventional aircraft, but every aspect of its sudden appearance, its flight characteristics (which defied conventional 'laws' of aerodynamics, aeronautics and even physics), and sudden disappearance, told her this was something very unusual.

3 November, 2000 - Ipswich, Suffolk

I saw something last night that I and another friend have not been able to explain and can only describe as a UFO.

I had been at a firework party in the SE of Ipswich and had watched a display put on by the local speedway venue. At about 10.30pm, well after the display finished, we were outside with a small bonfire cooking marshmallows. Being a particularly clear night we were observing the very brightly illuminated stars trying to make out their patterns when what at first appeared to be a group of stars moved rapidly over that sector of the sky and disappeared. This consisted of a triangle of point lights with a fourth light in the centre moving generally southward. The movement was particularly rapid and unlike any of the other aircraft lights that we regularly see over this part of Suffolk moving in an easterly direction. They were all white in colour and not like the white/red/green of an aircraft.

The observation was over very quickly but seen and commented on by myself and a friend. We are both certain that it was NOT a firework of any description because of its flightpath.

I have not seen anything like this before and can only put this down to a UFO or possibly a satellite - but one with four lights I have not seen before.

1990s - Bury St Edmunds

"Some years ago I saw something that was not/could not be explained to me. The place was the A14 at Bury St Edmunds. The sighting was of many slats of light covering an area as big as the inside area of Wembley stadium. There were about three of us that had stopped to look, there were two circles of lights one very far up but the other only about 50ft above us swaying side to side. A lady nearly run me over I assume in fear. I had stood underneath the circle for some time, when I returned back that way, maybe 12 o'clock that night there was a lot of activity in the area - police cars that sort of thing. The following day I asked the Bury press had they had any reports, they said no.

Some six months later a lorry driver wrote up in a truck magazine that he and a co worker had seen a UFO. Their description in the form of a sketch was exactly what I had seen. Is there any way you might have information on any of that. I know this is a hell of along shot, thanks for any help you may be able to offer."

Something about this report did ring a bell from 1996, when a cluster of sightings of similar 'lightform shows' occurred over the Thames Valley area and into Gloucestershire. These reports were very suggestive of laser displays, although only one confirmed laser display was at a local Vauxhall dealership (Gurney's of Benson), and this was only a single green laser beam projected into the sky, and it was supposedly off when the first lightform event occurred at nearby Wheatley. The witness in this Bury St Edmunds case agreed that the artists impression of the Wheatley event was very similar, so again it seems likely this was some unauthorised laser display - this may just explain the later police activity.

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