Palma de Mallorca (Spain), Spain
Orange ball of fire flighing from south and turning west over Palma de Mallorca, Spain. 26th January 2012
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-01-26
- Where
- Palma de Mallorca (Spain), Spain
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 39.569, 2.650 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-palma-de-mallorca-spain-2012-a5a8c1
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
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In context
- Palma de Mallorca (Spain), Spain has 2 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 10 reports from Spain.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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