Live Intercept Case ID: 4ec2ad46

SIGHTING: SINTRA, LISBON (PORTUGAL)

Sighted On
Tuesday 16. July 1974
Reported On
Classification
Circle, Fireball, Sphere
Duration
Undisclosed

Witness Testimony

"Many lights flashing slowlyDear Mr., I am writing these lines, intending to contribute in some way in the UFO research, more than by any another motive. What I do tell from now on really happened.Was more or less, 11:00pm in the night in middle part of 1974. I was 15 years old then. Arrived at home in a calm and starry night... When I look at the high sky, I saw a big ball of an yellowish light like a big brilliant ring dislocating slowly of northeast for southeast, followed by many other full colored lights smaller in size than that first one. The colors and tones varied of the alive red to the many scales of the blue. I do not remember certainly from the quantity of lights, but I am able to say that were more of ten. The lights were blurry, foggy, as in a sign of neon, and they passed to impression of something strange, unknown...I began to cry to my mother, she was sleeping in that moment. meanwhile, the lights enlivened decreasing the altitude (I saw it because near from my house there is a quarry of some 800m of height and the airport is relativamente nearby and we could observe the airplanes in the raising flight). I thought that the lights was dislocating themselves to, at least, some 1500m of altitude, without any noise. Only my frightened shouts broke the calm of that hot night of Vit���ria, capital city of the Esp���rito Santo state. My mother still living at the same place, called Joane D' arc, in Vit���ria.In the following day, the TV News, that covers all the country, I remember of the announcer narrating the event in short and laconic way. He said in the note that the objects had been observed dislocating from the north from the Bahia state in direction to the Esp���rito Santo and Rio de Janeiro states... I remember well that in the newspaper of the following day - The Headlines alluded the facts, and a note said that an inhabitant from a city called SERRA, a mountainous city near Vit���ria - that is in a plateau. The note said that a man observed everything with binoculars.Some years later, already adult, I was in the Vit���ria Public Archives, looking for newspapers from the epoch to find the correct day of the fact, but It did not succeed. After very I looked for, I gave it up and no more I tryed...Today, passed so many years, I continue remembering that night . What I saw, was not something I already had seen before. That experience went very awesome and decisive in my life. I read and research everything about these strange phenomena.these are my memories.I would like that you did a research to verify to truthfulness of these facts. I apologize by do not be able to say the correct date. But, in fact, it happened.I take advantage of this moment to thank you for the attention and I say good-bye putting myself to the his entire arrangement.Very best regards,D.A.---------------------------------------------------Prezados Srs., Eram, mais ou menos, 11 horas da noite em meados do ano de 1974. Eu tinha 15 anos ent���o. Chegara a casa aquela noite calma e estrelada e...ao olhar para o c���u, v��� uma grande bola, de uma luz amarelada e brilhante que se deslocava lentamente de nordeste para sudeste, seguida de muitas outras luzes menores de todas as cores e matizes, que variavam do vermelho vivo, ao azul esverdeado.N���o me lembro ao certo da quantidade de luzes, mas posso dizer que eram mais de dez pontos brilhantes que voavam em forma������o perfeita e sem nenhum ru���do.Comecei a gritar por minha m���e, que j��� estava dormindo ���quela hora, a nossa pequena casa estava toda ���s escuras. As luzes movimentavam-se ��� baixa altitude ( calculei isto porque pr���ximo havia uma pedreira de uns 800 metros de altura e o aeroporto ��� relativamente perto e pod���amos observar os avi���es ao levantar v���o). Imaginei que as luzes deslocavam-se a, pelo menos, uns 1500 metros de altitude, sem nenhum ru���do. Somente os meus gritos asustados quebravam a monotonia daquela noite quente de Vit���ria, capital do Esp���rito Santo.O bairro onde mora aindo hoje a minha m���e fica na ilha de Vit���ria, chama-se Joana D'arc.No dia seguinte, assistindo o Jornal Nacional, importante notici���rio de TV, que cobre todo o Brazil, lembro-me do locutor anunciando o evento de forma lac���nica e breve. Dizia ele na nota que os objetos foram observados deslocando-se do norte da Bahia em dire������o ao Esp���rito Santo e Rio de Janeiro...Alguns anos mais tarde, j��� adulto, estive no arquivo p���blico de Vit���ria, procurando jornais da ���poca para certificar-me do dia correto em que o fato se dera, pois n���o conseguia recordar a data correta. Depois de muito procurar, desist��� e n���o mais tentei...Hoje, passados tantos anos, continuo com a lembran���a viva daquela noite. O que observei n���o se parecia com nada que j��� tivesse visto.Aquela experi���ncia foi muito marcante e decisiva em minha vida. At��� hoje leio e pesquiso tudo que posso sobre estes estranhos fen���menos.Lembro-me bem que no jornal do dia seguinte-- Manchetes aludiam ao fato e uma nota dizia que um morador da Serra, uma cidade vizinha, que fica num planalto, havia observado tudo de bin���culos.Estas s���o as minhas lembran���as...Gostaria que fizessem uma pesquisa para comprovarem a veracidade destes fatos. Pe���o desculpas por n���o poder precisar a data correta. Mas, de fato aconteceu.Aproveito pra agradecer pela aten������o e me despe���o colocando-me ��� sua inteira disposi������o.Atenciosamente,D.A."

Intelligence Discussion

Coordinates

Latitude
38.7754°
Longitude
-9.3344°

Technical Specs

Classification Circle, Fireball, Sphere
Duration Undisclosed
Source MUFON
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Ericeira, Lisbon (Portugal) 2019-08-31 Blimp
Ericeira, Lisbon (Portugal) 2019-05-30 Sphere
Vale da Amoreira, Setúbal (Portugal) 2018-08-13 N, A
Lisbon, Lisbon (Portugal) 2018-05-15 Triangle
Montejunto Villas, Portugal 2017-11-14 Mrduza
Ericeira, Portugal 2017-10-22 Dozens of twinkling moving stars
Lisbon, Lisbon (Portugal) 2017-10-14 Other
Montijo, Setubal (Portugal) 2017-09-20 Circle
Lisbon, Lisbon (Portugal) 2017-09-15 Other
Lisboa (Portugal) 2017-07-30 Disc
Santarém (Portugal) 2017-07-27 star/aircraft
Paço de Arcos, Lisbon (Portugal) 2017-07-03 Unknown
PalmSprings 2017-02-17 Round
Sintra, Lisbon (Portugal) 2017-02-02 Disc
Lisbon, Lisbon (Portugal) 2016-10-18 Triangle
Paço de Arcos, Lisbon (Portugal) 2016-10-05 Triangle
Ericeira, Lisboa (Portugal) 2016-10-02 Circle
Almada, Setúbal (Portugal) 2016-09-27 Sphere
Lisbon (Portugal), 2016-09-27 Light
Sobreda, Setúbal (Portugal) 2016-09-10 Sphere
Alcácer do Sal, Setúbal (Portugal) 2016-08-13 Star-like
Marinhais (Portugal), 2016-06-16 Light
Charneca de Caparica, Setúbal (Portugal) 2016-05-25 Star-like
Belas (Portugal) 2016-05-05 Hollow circle
Camarate, Lisboa (Portugal) 2016-02-28 constelation
Lisbon, Lisbon (Portugal) 2016-02-28 Star-like
PalmSprings CA 2016-02-17 Round with green red white lights
Grândola, Setúbal (Portugal) 2015-09-15 Sphere
São Domingos de Rana, Lisboa (Portugal) 2015-08-06 Star-like
Lisbon (Portugal) 2015-06-10 Light
Lisbon (Portugal) 2015-03-22 Formation
Pinhal Novo, Setúbal (Portugal) 2015-03-20 Other
Almada, Setúbal (Portugal) 2015-03-14 Triangle
Cascais, Lisbon (Portugal) 2015-02-02 Unknown
Lisbon (Portugal) 2014-10-04 Diamond
Vila Nova da Rainha (Portugal) 2014-06-21 Oval
Loures, Lisboa (Portugal) 2014-04-25 Cylinder
Cascais, Lisbon (Portugal) 2013-07-20 Circle
Lisbon, Lisbon District (Portugal) 2013-02-26 Blimp
Cascais, Lisboa (Portugal) 2012-05-30 Cigar
Assafora (Portugal) 2012-04-07 Unknown
Santarem, Santarem (Portugal) 2011-08-07 Circle
Santarem (Portugal) 2011-04-26 Light
Cascais (Portugal) 2010-09-30 Cylinder
Sintra, Lisbon (Portugal) 2010-09-19 Disc
Loures, Lisbon (Portugal) 2010-06-17 Unknown
Lisbon, Lisbon (Portugal) 2010-02-25 Other
Sintra (Portugal) 2009-03-22 Oval
Estoril, Lisbon (Portugal) 2009-03-12 Disc
Costa da Caparica (Portugal) 2007-02-14 Light
Lisbon (Portugal) 2006-05-12 Unknown
Lourinha (Portugal) 2004-12-09 Triangle
Alcochete (Portugal) 2003-07-29 Triangle
Cascais (Portugal) 2003-06-26 Light
Lisbon (Portugal) 2002-09-09 Chevron
Lisbon (Portugal) 2001-12-02 Sphere
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