UFO Sightings in United Kingdom

36 documented cases in this archive come from United Kingdom. Each links to a full case file covering what witnesses saw, the official narrative, and a two-pass assessment with its evidence tier. The interactive globe on the homepage plots every case by exact location.

The Calvine Photograph
Moors near Calvine, Perthshire, Scotland · 4 August 1990 Verified Unexplained
The Plymouth Zoo Giraffe Photo
Plymouth Zoo, Devon, England · 1972 Unknown
The Tintagel Holiday Photograph Disc
Coast path near Tintagel, Cornwall, United Kingdom · 2005 Unknown
The Rendlesham Forest Incident
Rendlesham Forest, between RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters, Suffolk · 26 December 1980 Barely Disputed
The Bonsall Video, Sharon Rowlands (2000)
Bonsall, Derbyshire, England · 5 October 2000 Barely Disputed
The Staffordshire UFO Wave (2004)
Cannock, Lichfield, Stafford and Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England · August 2004 Barely Disputed
The British UFO Wave of 2008
United Kingdom (epicentre: RAF St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales) · 2008 (peak June 2008) Barely Disputed
South Wales Police Helicopter Encounter
Over MOD St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, near Cardiff, Wales · 8 June 2008 Barely Disputed
The A70 Abduction
A70 road near Harperrig Reservoir, between Edinburgh and Tarbrax, Scotland · August 1992 Barely Disputed
The Alitalia Near-Miss Over Kent
Over Lydd and Romney Marsh, Kent, England · 21 April 1991 Verified Unexplained
The Cosford and Shawbury RAF Sightings
RAF Cosford and RAF Shawbury, Shropshire and the West Midlands, England · 30 to 31 March 1993 Barely Disputed
The Manchester Airport Near-Miss (1995)
Over the Pennines, about 8 nautical miles southeast of Manchester Airport, England · 6 January 1995 Barely Disputed
The Alan Godfrey Abduction
Burnley Road, Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England · 28 November 1980 Barely Disputed
The Abduction of Alfred Burtoo
Basingstoke Canal, near Gasworks Bridge on Government Road, Aldershot, Hampshire, England · 12 August 1983 Unknown
The Solway Firth Spaceman
Burgh Marsh, Burgh by Sands, overlooking the Solway Firth, Cumberland (now Cumbria), England · 23 May 1964 Barely Disputed
The Warminster Thing
Warminster, Wiltshire, England · 25 December 1964 Barely Disputed
The Devon Flying Cross
A3072 between Hatherleigh and Holsworthy, near Okehampton, Devon, England · 24 October 1967 Barely Disputed
The Angus Brooks Encounter
Moigne Downs, near Ringstead Bay, Dorset · 26 October 1967 Barely Disputed
The A5 Road Incident
A5 road near Montford Bridge and Great Ness, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England · 8 November 1966 Barely Disputed
The Hanbury Dome Encounter
Farm road near Hanbury, Staffordshire, England · 20 November 1968 Unknown
The Lakenheath-Bentwaters Radar Incident
RAF Bentwaters and RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk, England · 13 to 14 August 1956 Verified Unexplained
The Milton Torres RAF Manston Scramble
RAF Manston, Kent, England, scramble vectored over East Anglia and the North Sea · 20 May 1957 Barely Disputed
The Bexleyheath Encounter
King Harold's Way, Bexleyheath, southeast London, England · 17 July 1955 Unknown
The Ranton Encounter (Roestenberg, Staffordshire, 1954)
Vicarage Farm, Ranton, near Stafford, Staffordshire, England · 21 October 1954 Barely Disputed
The Wardle Incident
Wardle, Lancashire, England (Pennine Moors, near Rochdale) · 15 February 1957 Barely Disputed
The Berwyn Mountains Incident
Berwyn range, near Llandrillo and Llandderfel, Merionethshire, North Wales · 23 January 1974 Barely Disputed
The RAF Boulmer Radar-Visual Sighting
RAF Boulmer, near Alnwick, Northumberland, England · 30 July 1977 Verified Unexplained
The Ilkley Moor Alien (1987)
Ilkley Moor, near White Wells, West Yorkshire, England · 1 December 1987 Barely Disputed
The Jason Andrews Abduction
Family home near Slade Green, Kent, England · 2 July 1987 Barely Disputed
The Brecon Beacons Multi-Lighted UFO
Brecon Beacons moorland, on the road between Leamington Spa and Neath, Powys, Wales · November 1989 Unknown
The Rod Dickinson UFO Footage (1998)
The Ridgeway, near Weymouth, Dorset, England · 7 April 1998 Barely Disputed
The Padeswood Poachers' Purple Ball
Padeswood, near Mold, Flintshire (historic Clwyd), North Wales · 1880s Unknown
Two Orbs Over Helensburgh, Scotland
Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute · 14 June 2026 Unknown
The Robert Taylor Encounter at Dechmont Woods
Dechmont Woods, Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland · 9 November 1979 Disputed
A Sphere Over Ormiston, East Lothian (20 June 2026)
Ormiston, East Lothian, Scotland · 20 June 2026 Unknown
A Flickering Light Over Cannock Chase, Staffordshire (22 June 2026)
Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, England · 22 June 2026 Unknown

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