UFOMYST
CaseChanging2008

Manchester (UK/England), United Kingdom

three bright lights different colours, changing shapes.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 18000s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (55 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-01-27
Where
Manchester (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Changing
Duration
5 hours
Geo
53.481, -2.237 · exact
Slug
changing-over-manchester-uk-england-2008-578d74
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • One of 73 documented reports from Manchester (UK/England), United Kingdom in the UFOMYST archive.
  • United Kingdom logged 196 sightings in 2008.
  • Changing sightings ran at 2.8% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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