UFOMYST
CaseOval2009

Sintra (Portugal), Portugal

strange turquoise light over Portugal sea on sunday night.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (58 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-03-22
Where
Sintra (Portugal), Portugal
Shape
Oval
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
38.801, -9.378 · exact
Slug
oval-over-sintra-portugal-2009-ee7dd4
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

  • Sintra (Portugal), Portugal has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 3 reports from Portugal.
  • The 2000s skewed 4.7% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Report

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