Police saw UFO over Manchester

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October 20, 2008

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UFO sighted over Stretford

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HUNDREDS of sightings of unidentified flying objects are made public today - including police reports of a flying saucer near Manchester.

The National Archives are inviting UFO hunters to delve into Ministry of Defence files, many of them kept under wraps for years.

There are sightings all over the country including one in 1986 when police, travelling on a moorland road between Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire spotted an `illuminated unidentified object'. They told the MoD in an official police report: "This took the form of a continuous but intermittent yellow/red light of a uniform roundish shape. There was no sound or smell coming from it, it was at about 20 degrees on the horizon hovering, but moving slightly in all directions from its axis."

They claimed that it remained for about 20 minutes and could be clearly seen. The weather was fine and dry and there was good visibility.

Manchester Airport air traffic control was contacted at the time and they reported that no planes were flying in their control area.

Other sightings include a UFO which apparently almost collided with an airliner flying towards Heathrow.

The archive website offers a wealth of details including an American Air force jet being ordered to shoot down a UFO flying over East Anglia.

Select the picture gallery link to see documents released from the National Archives.

Dr David Clarke, a UFO expert, says the files contain everything from close encounters between aircraft and unexplained objects to stories from members of the public who believe they were in contact with ETs, extra-terrestrials.

Dr Clarke said: "Making the material available to all those who have an interest in this subject means that everyone, expert or amateur, can make an informed decision on the mystery of UFOs."

The first reports of `flying saucers' were in 1947 in Washington when a private pilot, Kenneth Arnold, reported seeing nine strange objects that moved at tremendous speed across the sky.

His sighting triggered a wave of similar reports.

The UFO has become a synonym for an alien spaceship, but for the military forces of the world it refers to something in the sky the observer can see but does not recognise.

Dr Clarke said: "In the vast majority of cases, investigations have discovered ordinary explanations for UFO reports such as bright stars and planets, meteors, artificial satellites, balloons, aircraft seen from unusual angles and space junk burning up in the atmosphere.

"But there are some cases where no common explanation can be fund."

Click here to read about a recent UFO sighting in Stretford.

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Barmy Bird (20/10/2008 at 08:30)

i know it's rare we see it ................ the sun I mean ;-)

Malin Tisell (20/10/2008 at 08:36)

On the 21:st of September 2008 (it could have been a day before or after) on the skies over Linköping, Sweden, my partner and I saw an object that moved slightly in a triangel. At one stage it dissapeared completely to later appear again. We observed it for about 30 minutes and took a picture of it. I've never seen anything like it, we tried to come up with an explanation and ruled out: aircraft, satellite, planet (I think we managed to capture a planet in the background of it), meteor(definately not, it stayed to long), everything. The location from our balcony was east north east at about 30degrees. Here are two links to the picure we took, http://www.thebaldchemist.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=452 and http://www.thebaldchemist.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=455. If there is anyone out there that could explain this we gladly hear you out.

Malin Tisell (20/10/2008 at 09:44)

ha..ha.. don't know what planet you're on with a sun like that. I should add this was as NIGHT, the sun had gone down. (If you're writing from Britain you wouldn't know what the sun looked like anyway ;))

Viewer of Life, Stockport (20/10/2008 at 10:10)

Malin Tisell it was an "unidentified flying object", (large hint is the word unidentified). If someone tells you what it was, it becomes a "identified flying objects". Not as much fun :-)

Bogey Roller, Altrincham (20/10/2008 at 10:33)

It's nice to know they have seen something. They don't seem to see much that is happening on the streets.

Frostee, Oldham (20/10/2008 at 11:03)

You've more chance of seeing a UFO or even a unicorn than seeing a copper on the streets these days. Oh, and by a copper I mean a real constable not one of those wardens in fluorescent jackets pretending to be something they are not.

Bean B4, manchester (20/10/2008 at 11:10)

A lot of poppycock! UFOs do not exist.

The vast majority of so called sighting are explained by known phenomena. The small residue can be put down to secret government activity.

Face it, we are alone in the universe: no gods, no aliens, no point.

PS the picture taken over Stretford is clearly a homemade hotair balloon. Dead easy: meths, lint, foil pie dish, a cheap bin bag and bit of cotton and sellotape.

Malin Tisell (20/10/2008 at 11:14)

Viewer of Life, it was to me obviously an unidentified object that's why I asked if someone perhaps could identify it ¤hint¤. Or is this Stockport irony?

Viewer of Life, Stockport (20/10/2008 at 11:43)

Malin, yes it was Mancunian irony.

Bean B4, Manchester, on the whole I agree with your comments. However it is highly unlikely that we are alone in the universe. That said it is only slightly more likely that we will ever be visited by our co-inhabitants of this universe. The time and distances involved make it a non starter

Marc (20/10/2008 at 11:52)

Bean: 'Face it, we are alone in the universe: no gods, no aliens.'

I'll give you the point about Gods but you've obviously never been to Coalville in Leicestershire. Pod people everywhere you look!

Bean B4, manchester (20/10/2008 at 11:59)

Malin Tisell. I followed you rlink, Beautiful photos of a beautiful place but I see no UFO.

heidi08 (20/10/2008 at 13:43)

omg youh cant call that a ufo its a light in the sky god get your facts right youh mupets a UFO is a space ship and thats a light.

Mad Welsh Scotsman, Cadishead (20/10/2008 at 13:50)

So! where do they send the speeding ticket?

treblewinner (20/10/2008 at 13:51)

Face it, we are alone in the universe: no gods, no aliens, no point AND NO TROPHIES AT CITEH STILL !!!!

Batfink, Manchester (20/10/2008 at 13:51)

Bean B4: Face it, we are alone in the universe: no gods, no aliens, no point.

How naive! I'm not suggesting we are being visited by ET in any way, but to suggest that no other planet in the entire universe could have an atmosphere and be within suitable distance of the nearest large star to enable life is ridiculous.

better off red (20/10/2008 at 13:53)

I saw a large ball travelling very fast accross the sky near castleton earlier this year.
No noise and too big to be quiet that close up.
then later I saw an object appear then disappear, then appear again, then disappear.

I suspect it was some new government stealth craft, but until it is identified as such, it will remain a UFO.

adders, Co.Cavan ex Manchester (20/10/2008 at 14:33)

I believe that military testing is behind virtually every UFO report. Many of these reports come from places near air force bases, such as in 1977 during the so-called "Welsh triangle Flap" near RAF Brawdy, which was a joint US/British base.
But as regards possible visits from extra-terrestrial life, people who comment that distances from us make this impossible always make the mistake of judging this by our present knowledge. Remember,people have always done this and originally thought radio waves would kill,travelling at more than a modest speed would be fatal etc.
The research into things like the String Theory, where scientists claim to have confirmed the existence of other dimensions for one thing, opens up all sorts of possibilities and emphasises our current lack of insight into what the Universe is really all about.
Pity though that an interesting subject should always be clouded by stupid hoaxes and reports from attention-seekers.

Polky (20/10/2008 at 14:36)

The most recent estimate I can find is that there are about 70 sextillion stars within range of out telescopes, and more which we can't see.

If one in a million of them have a sun like ours and one in million of them have a planet like Earth and one in a million of them has life on it, then there's about 70,000 planets like ours with life on them that are in range of our telescopes.

Bean B4, manchester (20/10/2008 at 14:41)

Batfink, Manchester
I disagree. What do you think the odds are of the right chemicals coming together in the right place at the right time to create life - and life capable of turning their attention to other civilisations elsewhere in the universe? It must be trillions and trillions to one. So how many planets are there in the correct sort of region? No doubt trillions and trillions. So, you see, mathematically, the odds are probably 1:1 - and we were it.

The alternative argument - even more naive, is that God only created this shambles the once.

Sorry, Batfink, your 'how naive' approach belies your own childlike view of the universe. Too much Dan Dare when you were a kid!

Bean B4, manchester (20/10/2008 at 15:07)

adders

"The research into things like the String Theory, where scientists claim to have confirmed the existence of other dimensions for one thing"

These are virtual, mathematical dimensions invented to answer pure maths questions. They are not other dimensions in a whoooooooo kind of way.

I repeat, no gods, no UFOs, no spirits, only us in our aimless, pointless existence.

Batfink, Manchester (20/10/2008 at 15:42)

How blinkered are you? It's possible that we are the most technologically advanced, so as I said I am not suggesting we are being visited, but think of it this way: Current best guesses suggest there are more stars out there than grains of sand down here. Even if one in a million only has a single orbiting lump of rock within the distances required to sustain a stable temp within the ranges of basic life, the same laws of physics (universal, see? the clue is in the name) would, over time, dictate a similar evolutionary path to ours, albeit with local differences such as the present gravitional pull, atmospheric composition and stability, ambient temperatures etc. To suggest that we are the only life present in the entire universe is truly, proper flat-earth mentality.

Mad Angela, St George's, Hulme , (20/10/2008 at 16:07)

You would have thought India 99 would have followed it, then the ground force could have moved in on it when it landed.

Barney Gumball (20/10/2008 at 16:08)

Pity they cant see criminals...

S P In exile, Tameside (20/10/2008 at 16:41)

Considering the advancment man has made in quality photography man seems he cannot grasp the concept of photographing an object in the sky clearly.

Garsinho, Manchester (20/10/2008 at 17:27)

If I remember correctly, witnesses said that the recent UFO sighted over Stretford was hovering. The aliens were obviously trying to find out where the congestion zone started and wanted to avoid it.

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