Circle over Manchester, BOLTON · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
This was very bright and perfect circle with a shimmer of light around it ,it moved quite fast about 500 miles an hour and was not long after a plane had gone past an the same route and it had no sound at all
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #170436). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: UK Ministry of Defence · records window 2022-07-11 → 2022-07-28