CaseOther1998
Manchester (UK/England), Manchester, United Kingdom
A brilliant white light that grew in intensity until it lit everything up and an inverted Y shape of smoke
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (106 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-12-16
- Where
- Manchester (UK/England), Manchester, United Kingdom
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 5 to 10 minutes
- Geo
- 53.481, -2.237 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-manchester-uk-england-manchester-1998-bb5643
In context
- One of 73 documented reports from Manchester (UK/England), United Kingdom in the UFOMYST archive.
- United Kingdom logged 53 sightings in 1998.
- Other sightings ran at 8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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