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UFO SPOTTED OVER SALFORD PRECINCT
 

On Tuesday night a UFO was seen blazing over Salford Precinct at around 10pm.  Eye witness, Rachel, has described it as "a bright orange light, like a fire ball moving at a steady space. It was really weird".

It wasn't the sun by any chance? There's been similar spottings in Irlam a few nights before and all over Geater Manchester recently. There was even an `encounter' in Eccles last year.

Rachel has logged the alien visitors on the UK UFO Sightings website and asked for any other witnesses.  If anyone else saw the `bright orange light' please register it at

http://www.uk-ufo.co.uk/2009/04/salford-precinct-21st-april-2009/


brian wrote
at 13:11:19 on 29 September 2021
ufos are here and nasa knows everything whats going on they have a vault full of picks and recordings of ufos the goverment knows what going behind the scenes that u cant see they will allways lie 2 u about ufos but they cant lie 2 me its now possible record in2 space when uv got the rite tools 2 do it and record what is there from the man im the no
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David wrote
at 16:01:31 on 12 May 2021
I was in irlam at the time, it was around 11pm and as i looked up for 2 seconds I’d seen a bright light move, I knew it wasn’t a satellite as I’ve seen many moving. It was faster. It suddenly shot off and there was a bright light like an explosion and it disappeared. I was completely speechless.
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Oren ishee wrote
at 14:48:35 on 07 January 2021
I've been seeing a triangle shape object that flashes red white and blue or can just stay white for about a year n half now. But last night they started showing up one by one. There was five eventually. I watched for about 45 mins. One of them slowly moved to the left before darting towards northwest manchester out of sight.
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Joan Craven wrote
at 20:56:40 on 15 August 2020
My dogs needed to go out at 1.20 am on Saturday 15 th August . I saw a bright orange flame coloured ball travelling across sky . I know I didn’t imagine it . Not convinced by. UFO explanations . Could it be some kind of surveillance drone . Amazing how so many people reported seeing same thing
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wrote
at 16:53:11 on 25 June 2020
My name is Stevo I'm inquiring about ufo over Manchester area I spotted it over Radcliffe on my drive home can any relay to me that it was a ufo can I get a answer please
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Jack Monkeh Howard wrote
at 06:12:22 on 14 December 2019
i was in my room sipping tea when all of a sudden a strange entity entered my garden it was a 2 foot tall creature it had far more superior technology than me and flew off with a monkey
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alfie lennon mcgill wrote
at 09:01:29 on 25 May 2017
i was in my bedroom watching my tv when i saw a strange creature in my bedroom i said hello to the mysrerios entente then it clipbd over me then it got back in its flying saucer and then took of at thousands of miles an hour much faster then a bugatti veyron
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alfie lennon mcgill wrote
at 10:56:52 on 24 December 2016
i was in the house whe i saw a strange ufo and inside it there was a small figure that was 2 foot tall and had far superior technology that we humans have.it amazed me to the point i started tl look injto ufology im now offisialy a ufo beliver
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E.T wrote
at 07:01:05 on 01 December 2016
I have just seen a silver ufo above strangeways prison with 3 lights under it and a bright white light all around the sides
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alfie lennon mcgill wrote
at 22:36:35 on 28 February 2016
i was in my bedroom when a herd a strange sound then i saw a white light coming from outside my room then i saw a misrtic creature in a cylindrical object about 20 foot wide and 10 foot long the mesterios creature pulled a leaver then i floated in to this space ship then ai woke up then saw a needle go into my thumb then before i new it i new it iwas back in my bedroom watching extreme fishing with robson green
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Robert wrote
at 17:43:02 on 30 December 2015
Hello, I saw 3 fly past my home around december 23rd or just before christmas day at early evening,swinton. All Orange colours,they were flying very low, at house level,then flew higher and simply disappeared in the distance,going towards,Agecroft / prestwhich. They flew past my window fast,BUT,not fast enough for me to not notice them,meaning: THEY WERE REAL and Clearly NOT normal. PS: I was SOBER by the way. I was sitting down when first saw them go past my home / window, then i stood up and watched astounded.
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Mark Van Zandt wrote
at 10:53:30 on 31 May 2015
Some years ago I lived on the 15th floor of newbank towers my flat faced east looking out over to strangeways.I had got up early one morning and was looking out of my living room window when I noticed a diamond shape craft heading towards my flats at low level. The interesting thing about this is that in made no sound and seemed to be travelling effortlessly through the sky when the craft got closer it banked of to its right heading in a northerly direction it had a red that glowed on the underside of the craft lastly in was flying at a low altitude not much than the block of flats and you could see the craft clear as crystal I don't know if it was a ufo or a military craft but I can't forget the fact that it emitted no sound and just seemed to travel effortlessly it was strange
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michelle b wrote
at 17:20:13 on 10 May 2015
me and my daughter was stood outside letting the dog out about 12am this was about january 2015 and we was looking at the stars, then we seen a white light snake across the sky for about 30 seconds then it emitted a brilliant white light four times its size, then the light blinked out and it dissapeared upwards, ive seen alsorts of weird things but my daughter was quite excited it was her first sighting.
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Sarah wrote
at 05:42:47 on 22 April 2015
I saw a white/grey boomerang shaped object flying at a steady pace while driving through Clifton approximately 5pm Monday 20 April high in the sky above Wickes over J16 M60 area.
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karen wrote
at 10:16:33 on 13 April 2015
I saw a huge thick yellowy light decending through the sky late at night about a week and a half ago...i couldn't believe my eyes!! Never seen anything like that before...so low down in the sky...i live in Sale....it went down over the trafford area...
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Patrick Gibbons wrote
at 13:12:36 on 25 March 2015
I saw a ball of fire decending from the sky during the early hours of this morning while I was driving along the M602 heading towards Eccles. The ball of fire was so big I thought it was either a meteorite or a plane crashing. I looked on the Television today expecting the event to have been reported the news then I tried Google and came across this site ! I Felt it is only right to report it !!
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videosmisterio wrote
at 07:19:24 on 25 January 2015
Hi. Nice post. Look this video about ufo ovni in Paraguay: http://www.videosmisterio.com/videos/misterio/ufo-ovni-en-paraguay Regards!
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paul briars wrote
at 18:30:38 on 01 January 2015
31.12.14 i noticed a bright light high up...travelling directly overhead from wythenshawe area heading towards manchester city centre..time was exactly 23.59 my thoughts were comet or shooting star...very very strange encounter...seemed to travel at a very steady pace and once in the distance turned from white to orange circle and vanished.....exact same encounter is on youtube filmed in bristol a year ago to the exact minute...very miffed by what my own eyes saw.
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Pat Regan wrote
at 15:05:32 on 05 December 2014
Manchester seems to be an interesting place just now for such UFO reports. I just completed a fascinating one (Leigh area), which is currently top slot on UFO Digest website...
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Jeremy Kyle. wrote
at 07:14:07 on 27 November 2014
It was just my tv crew getting new guest for my show.
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jack winnard wrote
at 18:10:57 on 15 October 2014
I'm the alien leave me alone was just out for a drive, I mean lets face it I'm not the strangest thing un salford
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kye cambino wrote
at 07:33:58 on 15 October 2014
I seen ET picking up a bud in swinton before could this be connected
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Ray wrote
at 10:08:08 on 19 August 2014
I've just been reading about ufo's seen in the salford area and so I would like to tell my story. It was about 6.20am the day and month I'm unsure of now but it was around February the year was 1995. I was at work and I'd just walked out of a building and looked up to see a transatlantic plane passing over head, it was about to land at manchester airport, when I thought something had fallen off the side of the plane, I soon realised the object was traveling at the side of the plane and as the plane turned to approach the airport, the object shot off at high speed in a S/E direction and within a few seconds vanished in the distance. Has anyone else seen anything like this.
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john collins wrote
at 21:05:09 on 17 August 2014
i just saw a white ball in manchester, like grey and white moving quite hast followed by somethin which could have been a drone followed by to more white/ grey balls, literally just now, i say it could have been a drone following the first one it was larger, black and white and didnt make a sound, weird, i thought they could have been balloons but they were all travelling at the same height in a straight line about 2 minuites after each other and doesnt explain the drone like thing following the first one.. weird
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Ian wrote
at 13:24:56 on 07 May 2014
Hi there, I am from Manchester and myself and my dad saw a strange Orange object travelling Horizontally above the M62 Motorway in the late 1970's. It moved very slowly and never had a tail like you would expect to see from a Meteorite, this object appeared to be roundish or maybe even slightly oblong in shape and in my opinion was not from this world, but an Alien driven object from another world...many sightings were reported that evening as my dad contacted the police he was told that the phones will not stop ringing...
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Kenneth w mckelvey wrote
at 10:44:42 on 06 January 2014
I will look forward to learning something/ try to do that every day/ I wish you and a few others on Star Comment would learn to stop hiding behind Non Due Plumes and learn to add your proper names/ to make inane comments and then hide behind phoney Titles is like school girls who whisper /It is cowardly stroke to say the least.
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oldtimer wrote
at 20:11:32 on 05 January 2014
@Ken, when you finally work out how to use a computer and reply on the correct thread I will tell you why YOU are a racist.....
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Kenneth Mckelvey wrote
at 18:12:20 on 05 January 2014
Sorry oldtimer but I used Salford transport a long time ago to The buses were cleaned every night at Fredrick road bus depot SORRY!And why have you got to add racial overtones to yourcomment
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Martino wrote
at 09:55:19 on 05 January 2014
Ive just seen it over Swinton, like a fireball moving quiet fast and was going for a while until out of sight, definitely not a Chinese lantern or firework
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katrina wrote
at 19:00:33 on 01 January 2014
At around 1 am on the 1st Jan.. Yesterday, a friend and I had just walked back from the fireworks display, Piccadilly gardens. As we arrived on to BurY ST, AT THE SIDE OF THE quebec building and Cross street. I was showing my pal how bright the stars were, as there were three , shining very bright. As we looked at it , there was a small orange light , slightly longer that a star and very high, that moved straight, then started to do small zig zag's downwards, to the left of the sky, trghen suddenly dissapeared. It lasted around 30 seconds, and was pretty amazing.. I thought t might have been a shooting star at first,,n but was way too slow, in comparison.. Great start to the NY ;-)
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John Clarke wrote
at 09:03:24 on 14 December 2013
I live I Aberystwyth , ceredigion , Wales I saw a fast moving light at about 22:43- 22:50 I know it was no plane as there was now sound I only saw it for 2 sec but it headed out to the Irish Sea I don't know if any one else in my area saw it but It was fast
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elizabeth hill wrote
at 16:23:50 on 19 November 2013
very interesting to read all these comments as i too have seen these orange lights on a few occasions over a few months in 2010 in fact i have photos on my phone i know they are not chinese lanterns because they are in the same position for ages and dart off very fast.
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christine hill wrote
at 18:44:13 on 08 November 2013
One day (can't remember what time of day, but it was light) around 1978, whilst walking down Weaste Road, just walking over the bridge to Weaste bus depot, i glanced over towards Manchester......in the sky i saw several different coloured lights, moving to and fro in zig zag like movements. Never heard anyone mention the same...will always puzzle me? Wasn't on drink or drugs at the time, lol. ?????
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alfie mcgill wrote
at 16:34:38 on 21 August 2013
I was at my dads one night and was walking to the shop where I saw 2 very bright lights above me in the sky.They were moving very quickly and I was very scared but just stood there watching.They were very peculiar lights.Then in an instant they just vanished.They went like the wind and vanished in thin air.
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Chris Hudson wrote
at 05:42:47 on 20 June 2013
I'd hate to think I was lying about the UFO sighting Over Eccles Manchester but I'm not ! Me and my brother Was stood in the back yard of the public house my mother and father was running when we saw a shining bright silver oval object with a L shaped object at the rear ! There was no sound for such a big unit and we both remember it as plain as day as we were stood directly underneath !
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KEN JOHNSTONE wrote
at 05:35:44 on 19 February 2013
jan 1995 driving home from Salford to Winton,along Eccles New Road,stopped at the lights at Gilderbrook Rd,Saw what i thought was a helicopter moving towards us from the direction of Eccles bus station As it got closer i saw it a delta shaped craft,black,with lights on each corner,it was moving very slowly but sideways,and was noiseless.Icouldnt judge its height or its size but it seemed pretty low n large It suddenly stopped and hung motionless over the 602 roundabout;IASKED MY 14 YR OLD GRANDAUGHTER to get a good look at ,which she did, and verified that i wasnt seeing things,a few dats later,the Salford ADVERTISER reported that over300 people had notified the police,as far away as liverpool, No official explanation was give,but i later saw avideo of a group of the same craft flying over Brussels Belgium Other sightings of the same craft have been reported since
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craig parkes wrote
at 20:12:33 on 28 January 2012
probably the police uno wot there like round here they sell drugs and evrything
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Dead City Inmate wrote
at 19:01:20 on 17 December 2011
The UFO is the vehicle now being used by the Salford council cretins to get in and out of the Swinton Madhouse without having to face the wrath and anger of the cheated electorate .
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kathryn wrote
at 09:57:16 on 17 December 2011
when i was a kid (early ninties)we lived in lower broughton my mum had just put me and my sister to bed,messin about like you do i spotted three white lights in the sky,they would dance about in cicles then speed off one after the other but then come back i remember shouting for my mum and even she was shocked,we watched these lights for about 1 hour an half please if any as seen these lights or know wot they were plz message back to this post(roughly 1994)
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Ollie Wragge wrote
at 15:49:26 on 08 December 2011
Perhaps the UFO is the local government omsbudsman , keeping a surveillance eye on the Swinton Madhouse and their antics .
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lee jones wrote
at 11:29:14 on 08 December 2011
Hi i took my dog for a walk earlier on i live in clayton manchester and seen a realy bright orb looking thing just hovering realy high up then it moved to fast to the right to be anything man made then iv bin lay in bed watchin tv and iv just seen it again but this time something bright red was flying towards it rapidly then it shot upwards and disapeared and like some1 commented on hear it is true soon as u see it thats when it seems to dissapear its like they know your watchin them weird
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caroline wrote
at 19:09:52 on 07 November 2011
I do not think the light is important..It happens..part of the earth and stars.But then again maybe ...there tech,,may have improved..my husbands brother used to have drinks and help out at a british Airways club..They told him of the many things they saw,which we belive were 100 per.truth.
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amy wrote
at 12:50:13 on 07 November 2011
I have seen many sightings of unusual objects in the sky and they were definately not planes or any other small minded explanation those non believers want to come up with, I seen big orange white balls of light travelling real fast in the sky making no sound then they seem to disappear when you watch them as if they know you have witnessed there presence so they need to leave! I keep a very open mind and I know one thing is certain we are not alone your telling me that in the whole of the universe there is only one planet with life on it? Bullshit! If they have the technology to get here and we can't travel more than a few miles into space makes you wonder how very intellegent these beings really are and if they could be a threat?
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J.D. wrote
at 21:03:16 on 02 May 2011
One thing is certain .The bright light certainly won't be a spark of intelligence from some Clowncil twonk , locked in yet another self-important bullshit 'secret meeting' whilst plotting even more desecration of this Sad Dump City .
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jay wrote
at 09:08:20 on 02 May 2011
i seen the exact same light and i live in leeds it had like a bright orange ball and left a faded orange trail behind it it seemed to fall from the sky and then turn to start moving along the horizon i live in beeston in flats on the 14th floor so i seen it perfect so if u did see it over bramley then this is fucking real weird and someone must have took a photo send that shit to evening post if u have because after seing that i believe we are not alone either i saw it on friday night at about 9.40pm
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anonymous wrote
at 03:42:44 on 12 April 2011
seen it today from the library at salford uni. (in direction of quays, possibly near precinct, might have been further.)
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jordan wrote
at 10:30:17 on 24 February 2011
lies lies
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Nachtschlepper wrote
at 17:22:49 on 29 December 2010
Mickey Mouse sounds like an apt name, if you don't like it don't read it.
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Micky Mouse wrote
at 07:36:03 on 27 December 2010
I saw the UFO its amazing, then suddenly i saw it was a BA Flight 1324 to Spain LOL a bit like this mag a load of RUBBISH, can never get its facts right yet !!!!!!!!
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Danny Avgerinos wrote
at 10:15:17 on 16 December 2010
Hate to bump an old post. Ive been looking since 05/11/2010 for some kind of reference. Im an undergraduate science student at salford uni. On that nigh just before entering the Wallness pub next to the park. I saw a light in the sky, I was outside the pub having a cigarette looking north east. It was stationary as far as my perception could tell (could have been moving back and forth but the light showed no sign of dimming or brightening so I doubt it). It hanged in the air for a few seconds after I saw it then made a sharp and rapid rightwards movement (cannot tell how far as I have no reference point for it). Then it appeared to move vertically again rapidly before making a diagonal downward left movement. These motions were almost instant then it vanished. This happened over a period of about 20-30 seconds and the object was far enough away to be unidentifiable yet indentifiable as not any registered commercial or military aircraft, in the planes of sight I had no object in public knowledge can perform those manoeuvres. This was not the same thing as stated in the original post but I think this is a good place to post this. I had a witness but the fool was looking at his shoes whilst I was pointing at the sky and yelling at him (like a madman?!). This was real and I hadn't even had my first pint! Did anyone else see something strange that bonfire night? It was around 16:00-17:00 I think. Clueless and baffeled!
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