Here’s a list of documented observations.
This list is for Warminster and its surrounding area only.

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22 June 1991 – Milk Hill, UK –   75 feet long fireball crosses sky.

11 August 1991 – Bathgate, UK –   Triangle seen over hills, big explosion rocks Blackridge house.

Warminster Barracks – 1991

7 July 1992 00:20 – Stonehenge, UK –   Nocturnal lights were reported on a farm.

24 July 1992 11:50 – Alton Barnes, UK –   A daytime disc was reported on a farm.

26 July 1992 01:10 – Alton Barnes, UK –   An object was sighted that had an appearance and performance beyond the capability of known earthly aircraft. An unidentified object at close range was observed by five witnesses.

27 July 1992 00:20 – Alton Barnes, UK –   An object was sighted that had an appearance and performance beyond the capability of known earthly aircraft. An unidentified object at close range was observed by five witnesses.

28 July 1992 – Alton Barnes, UK –   An object was sighted that had an appearance and performance beyond the capability of known earthly aircraft. An unidentifiable object was observed at close range.

28 July 1992 – Alton Priors, UK –   An object was sighted that had an appearance and performance beyond the capability of known earthly aircraft. An unidentifiable object was observed at close range.

16 August 1992 20:15 – Bathgate, UK –   Intense green light streaks across sky from east moving rapidly to the west on downward trajectory. Appeared to impact.

19 April 1993 20:45 – Black Heath, Salisbury Plains, UK –   Radar visual confirmation. Multiple radar of UFO to the south. Dark charcoal cylindrical object on ground, 60 feet long with four legs (2 damaged). two 3.5′ tall beings on flight deck, slant eyes. USAF took craft with copter.

28 June 1993 Night – Bristol, UK –   UFOs in groups seen all over town for 5 hours. None appear on radar.

7 August 1993 Night – Alton Priors, UK –   Video of delta shaped object hovering. Crop circles found in vicinity later.

20 July 1994 23:00 – Alton Barnes, Milk Hill, UK –   An object was observed. Telepathic phenomena were said to have occurred. One object was observed by 20 witnesses for over two minutes (Uriarte).

1 August 1994 01:00 – Silbury Hill, UK –   An object was sighted that had an appearance and performance beyond the capability of known earthly aircraft. An unidentified object at close range was observed by three witnesses.

18 August 1994 01:10 – Stonehenge, UK –   Nocturnal lights were reported on a road.

In March 1995 Night – Littleover, UK –   Retired RAF incident.

11 March 1996 15:33 – Salisbury, UK –   UFO was parked on road – left moving rapidly to the when craft was approached

14 October 1997 Night – Somerset, UK –   Four separate sightings of large, black triangular UFO.

6 November 1998 19:00 – Bath, UK –   Six lights in row, all white, second brighter, last two close together.

26 March 1999 20:40 – Alford, UK –   One large, round object. White and very bright. Was travelling North West.

23 June 1999 23:15 – Calne, UK –   Object moving approx 250 feet above rooftops and about 100 feet long, with 6-8 lights on each side of central red light, hovering.

12 July 1999 23:10 – Blandford St Mary, UK –   Three star-shaped objects. They were all white and very bright. They were faster than an aircraft.

23 July 1999 13:00 – Bishopstone, Nr Salisbury, UK –   Object seen rotating with a wobble, it was approx 30 feet in diameter and hovered over trees for three minutes

16 August 1999 – RAF Benson, UK –   RAF Insider incident. Explanation: Manmade.

19 September 1999 20:20 – Marlborough, UK –   One car sized object. Tubular shaped. It had three lights at the front, and they were very bright. Moved off at a high speed.

9 October 1999 21:15 – Calne, UK –   Two lights, one large and one small. White and very bright. They were moving from left to right and then to the left again.

18 October 1999 02:00 – Bath, UK –   One object, the size of a medium star. Shaped like a ball with three prongs. Green, red, blue and white. Very bright.

28 December 1999 06:10 – Swindon, UK –   One circular object, too big to be a star. Mostly white, but coloured lights too. Moved from right to left at speed.

5 January 2000 01:20 – Wootton Bassett, UK –   One single object. Changed from white to green in colour with an orange tinge. Brighter than any star and flashing. Moved to the right.

15 April 2000 00:00 – Canon Frome Ct, UK –   Huge fire seen through bedroom window. Spinning light came into the room.

15 July 2000 22:20 – Bath, UK –   Object with pulsating light east to west, then it turned off.

16 August 2000 21:50 – Forest Hill, UK –   Red, blue lights, flashing consecutively, on large spheres – two foot wide – four foot tall.

18 August 2000 09:50 – Forest Hill, UK –   Red, blue singular flashing lights.

2 December 2000 18:50 – Stonehenge/Salisbury, UK –   One sphere, bigger than a shooting star. Green and blue and was flashing. Very bright.

4 February 2001 04:00 – UK –   Object was a triangle shape, like an inverted ice cream cone. The object disappeared down a country lane.

14 February 2001 00:15 – Salisbury, UK –   Very bright, like a shooting star. Triangle shaped. Flashing lights – red, purple and green. Moving in a Southerly direction.

3 April 2001 02:35 – Chippenham, UK –   A pair of bright red lights were moving from the South East towards the North West. Each light had a double flashing pulse.

24 May 2001 22:25 – Forest Hill, UK –   An alien craft was near to the witness’s house. Disc with a beam of light coming from it. Electrical equipment was disturbed.

30 July 2001 23:30 – Bath, UK –   One oval shaped object. It had rotating lights. Was moving to the West.

15 September 2001 05:00 – Swindon, UK –   One white/very bright object. Moving vertically, then remained stationary, with occasional bursts of light. Seen for over an hour.

31 December 2001 20:30 – Castle Donington, UK –   A bright, green light was moving at very high speed. The object appeared to land near Kegworth over the M1

27 July 2002 18:00 – Avebury, UK –   Cluster of oval UFO’s by crop circles

28 July 2002 20:55 – Nr Salisbury, UK –   Saw a bright red light. It vanished after five minutes.

26 September 2002 20:30 – Warminster, UK –   This object changed shape and colour, and moved unlike anything I have ever seen.

16 August 2003 21:00 – Amesbury, UK –   Flying saucer shaped object.

25 August 2003 15:00 – Stonehenge, UK –   Two disks flying in formation over Stonehenge (U. K)

15 June 2004 01:10 – Shepton Mallet, UK –   The object moved at speed but low with lights at the back and bright lights along the side. Not a conventional aircraft.

21 June 2004 04:00 – Salisbury, UK –   Ten feet white object, 5 feet off ground.

25 June 2004 12:00 – Glastonbury, UK –   Glastonbury Festival Somerset England 2004

24 September 2004 06:30 – Devizes, UK –   Looked like a big ball of fire coming down from the sky with a tail and sparks coming off of the end of it.

7 October 2004 12:45 – Malmesbury, UK –   Malmesbury Aliens in Somerfield Area

12 November 2004 02:00 – Wiltshire, UK –   Shining diamond object above my friend’s heads (smaller than football ball). I had make three picture with 5.2 MP camera, object is moving

26 February 2005 23:00 – Chiseldon, UK –   Circle of stationery red equidistant lights in night sky, a helicopter circling monitoring formation.

17 July 2006 02:00 – Marlborough, Wiltshire –   Two round, stationary, slightly oval lights were seen. A third light kept arcing between the other two oval lights, and lit up the sky.


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