UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2009

Pilar, Azores, Portugal

A 15 year old sees a small hovering cylinder in the Azores, Portugal.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (69 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-04-09
Where
Pilar, Azores, Portugal
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
1 minute
Geo
-34.459, -58.914 · fallback
Slug
cylinder-over-pilar-azores-2009-2d9d5d
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…

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In context

  • Pilar, Azores, Portugal has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 3 reports from Portugal.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.6% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.

Report

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