CaseCircle2008

Manchester (Glossup) UK/England, United Kingdom

8 round red stationary objects that shone even through the clouds.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-11-14
Where
Manchester (Glossup) UK/England, United Kingdom
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 hours
Geo
53.481, -2.237 · exact
Slug
circle-over-manchester-glossup-uk-england-2008-4c13c5
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Manchester (Glossup) UK/England, United Kingdom in the UFOMYST archive.
  • United Kingdom logged 196 sightings in 2008.
  • Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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