CaseDiamond1996
Manchester (UK/England), United Kingdom
Riding Metro-Link Tram from Manchester to Altrincham(UK). Glanced up, don't know why, and glimpsed large Metallic Diamond shape gliding
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-09-16
- Where
- Manchester (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 53.481, -2.237 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-manchester-uk-england-1996-349dfd
In context
- Manchester (UK/England), United Kingdom has 73 sightings on file here.
- 1996 brought 33 reports from United Kingdom.
- The 1990s skewed 1.3% diamond reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.4%.
Report
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