CaseCircle1997

Coimbra (Portugal), Portugal

The object was hovering in one place and then it was gone

Report quality: Moderate48/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (57 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-08-15
Where
Coimbra (Portugal), Portugal
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
40.207, -8.420 · exact
Slug
circle-over-coimbra-portugal-1997-2a8542
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 5 documented reports from Coimbra (Portugal), Portugal in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Portugal logged 1 sightings in 1997.
  • Circle sightings ran at 6.7% during the 1990s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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