Macaé (Brazil), Brazil
Circle shaped blue craft, moved horizontally in the sky, legt a shimmering trace, then accelerated upwards in amazing speed and vanishe
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-02-23
- Where
- Macaé (Brazil), Brazil
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10-20 seconds
- Geo
- -22.385, -41.783 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-maca-brazil-1997-719d1e
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In context
- Macaé (Brazil), Brazil shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from Brazil in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 6.7% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
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