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The Glossop and Hindley Police Sightings

Glossop, Derbyshire

Police in two towns see a light swinging like a pendulum.

On 10 August 1967, two constables in Hindley, near Wigan, saw a large white object over Liverpool Road. Seventeen days later, six on-duty officers in Glossop reported an object swinging from side to side like a pendulum.

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When
August 1967
Where
53.4430, -1.9490
Group
UFO cases

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Glossop sits on the edge of the Peak District.

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Fifty-four real and closely examined British UFO cases, weighed with honesty rather than hype. From Rendlesham Forest, the best-documented UFO case the United Kingdom has ever produced, to the Berwyn Mountains, the Broad Haven schoolchildren, the Calvine photograph and the Bonnybridge hotspot, each case sets out what was seen, who saw it and what the explanations are.

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