Portugal, Portugal
An imense light crossed Portugal during 45 minutes, making no sound, thousands saw it !
Report quality: High79/100
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (87 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- 7 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-06-01
- Where
- Portugal, Portugal
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- fireball-over-portugal-2004-11ec37
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 8 Portugal, Portugal reports filed in June 2004.
In context
- Portugal, Portugal shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 16 reports came from Portugal in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.