Praia (Santiago), Cape Verde Island
I am writing this letter in order to submit the sighting form with regard to my observations. I was away on vacation in the Cape Verde
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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- Duration parsed: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-05-31
- Where
- Praia (Santiago), Cape Verde Island
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 14.932, -23.513 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-praia-santiago-2012-146dd6
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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…
In context
- Praia (Santiago), Cape Verde Island has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 1 reports from Cape Verde Island.
- The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
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