CaseCone2004

Portugal, Portugal

It was around 23:15hrs I was observing the the sky,when sudently I saw what appear to be a comet with a long very bright conical tail.I

Report quality: High83/100

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  • Duration parsed: 420s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • 7 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2004-06-01
Where
Portugal, Portugal
Shape
Cone
Duration
00:07 minutes
Geo
Slug
cone-over-portugal-2004-a632c1
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

Local cluster

Local cluster

8 reports came out of Portugal, Portugal in June 2004 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Portugal, Portugal has 10 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 16 reports from Portugal.
  • The 2000s skewed 0.5% cone reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.4%.

Report

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