The claim came from a caller in Wigan, who said they spied 17 spaceships carrying the extra-terrestrial beings through the sky.
The undated incident was among 22 alleged UFO sightings made across the region in the last decade, reports the Manchester Evening News.
Nationally, there have been 2,000 'sightings' reported to the MoD between 2000 and 2009.
In another close encounter, a panicked witness claimed to have seen a “dome-shaped orange ball of light” take off from a field in Leigh, Greater Manchester, in February 2009.
The caller described the transparent object as "organic like a jellyfish", adding: “You could see its internal workings.
"It departed swaying left to right and made a droning noise.”
Another sky-watcher claimed a “UFO appeared several times during the night” in Bolton in November 2009. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it was Bonfire Night.
More intriguing, are two mystery items reported in Stockport on December 18, 2001.
One is recorded as “two grey plumes of smoke in the sky over Stockport railway station. A grey triangle was then witnessed.”
The other was a “red light moving fast, high up in the sky”, which “slowed down, got fast again, then wobbled from side to side”.
Another detailed sighting was reported in Ashton-under-Lyne in September 2009, when a caller claimed to have seen eight orange UFOs, which “shone brightly, travelling at speed, low in the sky”.
They then reportedly changed direction at a 90 degree angle towards West Yorkshire.
Manchester appears to be somewhat of a UFO hot-spot down the years.
In the 1970s, a documentary was made about a couple who spotted a UFO on Urmston meadows. Their claims were backed up by police called to the scene.
And last year the government released details of a call from pilot Roger Willis to Manchester air traffic control in 1995, when he said his passenger plane was overtaken at high speed by a wedge-shaped craft with bright lights.
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