Manchester (Salford) (UK/England), United Kingdom
I just opened my front door to go for a cigerette and a bright light (like a planes front light from a distance or a very bright star
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-07-11
- Where
- Manchester (Salford) (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 53.481, -2.237 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-manchester-salford-uk-england-2008-5c3a87
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
- Manchester (Salford) (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 196 reports came from United Kingdom in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Report
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