News and observation reports, November 2008:

The newspaper of La Reunion "Clicanoo" reports on December 6, 2008 that on November 25, 2008 towards 8 p.m., a man, his wife and their three children, at a small villa on the side of Bois-de-Nèfles Saint-Paul saw "a ball of fire, above the harbour." The father initially thought of a meteorite [a meteor] but "it did not move, and did not burn out. The gleam slowly descended, without noise, then stopped suddenly during five minutes. Then, it started to go up, before disappearing suddenly. That lasted a good five minutes, it was perfectly visible to the naked eye."

The father took a photograph, enlarged it on his computer and "realizedt that the haloed gleam reveals 'an oval shape'. He reportedly then spent hours to document himself about UFOs on the web, and sent a report to NASA [who does not study UFO reports] and the GEIPAN in France.

Taxi driver Paul Matthews, 45, from Patchway, spotted an object in the air over Filton near the Royal Mail depot at about 02:00 p.m. on Friday November 21, 2008, after he had driven into the Airbus site. He quickly pulled over his car, watched what he described as a disc-shaped object hovering in the air before disappearing "as swiftly as it had appeared", and he took a photograph of the object:

He explained he first he thought it was an aeroplane, microlite or parachute, but it was not behaving like anything he had seen before: "It was very weird. It was so strange. I have been a lorry driver in my time and seen some strange things, but this is something else." "I had never ever seen something like this before. I was really surprised how other people had not noticed it. I thought they would be stopping in their droves, but that was not the case at all."

Denis Plunkett, 77, former RAF pilot, head of the British Flying Saucer Bureau, the ufology group that became famous when medias worldwide falsely claimed it was closed, commented that it was just the latest in several sightings "of alien spaceships" in the area.