CaseOval2003
Leyland, Lancashire (UK/England), United Kingdom
Video film taken of daylight object with fire and smoke contrail, moving upward at 30 degrees. Object was circular shaped.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-01-17
- Where
- Leyland, Lancashire (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 53.698, -2.688 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-leyland-lancashire-uk-england-2003-f425b2
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In context
- Leyland, Lancashire (UK/England), United Kingdom has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2003 brought 165 reports from United Kingdom.
- The 2000s skewed 4.7% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
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