CaseCircle2011

Manchester (UK/England), United Kingdom

unusual craft lands in woods near a6 and causes electrical problems on the car.

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (79 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-06-12
Where
Manchester (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Circle
Duration
15 mins
Geo
53.481, -2.237 · exact
Slug
circle-over-manchester-uk-england-2011-fdb39b
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…

In context

  • Manchester (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 73 times across the archive.
  • 69 reports came from United Kingdom in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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