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
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: 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
Part of a wave
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
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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