CaseTriangle2004

Manchester (UK/England), United Kingdom

unknown flying object saw by myself and 2 friends it fell from the sky with lights flickering green triangle shaped

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (115 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-10-31
Where
Manchester (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Triangle
Duration
3 mins
Geo
53.481, -2.237 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-manchester-uk-england-2004-f86c8e
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Manchester (UK/England), United Kingdom reports filed in October 2004.

In context

  • Manchester (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 73 times across the archive.
  • 155 reports came from United Kingdom in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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