Manchester (UK/England), United Kingdom
On a trip down the M6 passing manchester my family spotted what we initially thought was a police search helicopter due to bright white
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-01-29
- Where
- Manchester (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 53.481, -2.237 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-manchester-uk-england-2009-a11b0f
Part of a wave
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 has 73 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 282 reports from United Kingdom.
- The 2000s skewed 10.1% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Report
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