UFOMYST
CaseOval2004

Madeira (Portugal), Portugal

It was really strange cause near is an aircraf and ther i can hear the airlines.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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  • Duration parsed: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (80 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-08-10
Where
Madeira (Portugal), Portugal
Shape
Oval
Duration
4min
Geo
-7.591, -37.539 · fallback
Slug
oval-over-madeira-portugal-2004-655f85
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

  • One of 1 documented reports from Madeira (Portugal), Portugal in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Portugal logged 16 sightings in 2004.
  • Oval sightings ran at 4.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 4.3%).

Report

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