Sale, Manchester, United Kingdom
Came out and noticed a bright light. Took our phone to zoom in and noticed it moving very fast and also moving up and down.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-10-10
- Where
- Sale, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 53.425, -2.324 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-sale-manchester-2021-1faebc
Part of a wave
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 Sale, United Kingdom in the UFOMYST archive.
- United Kingdom logged 30 sightings in 2021.
- Circle sightings ran at 11.9% during the 2020s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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