CaseOval2002
Manchester (UK/England), United Kingdom
We saw a oval shaped craft flying at about 5 thousand ft high and traveling about 500 mph from east to west displaying flashing lights
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-09-13
- Where
- Manchester (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 45 seconds
- Geo
- 53.481, -2.237 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-manchester-uk-england-2002-6ffce3
In context
- This is one of 73 reports logged in Manchester (UK/England), United Kingdom.
- This case is one of 175 United Kingdom reports filed in 2002.
- Oval craft made up 4.7% of 2000s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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