Portugal · 04 September 1957

Airspace over the Portugal-Spain border, 1957

Reported

Four Portuguese Air Force jets on a night navigation exercise are joined by a luminous sphere that cycles green-orange-red and passes below and behind the formation; the flight leader later became Chief of the Armed Forces General Staff.

Where

Airspace over the Portugal-Spain border, night navigation exercise from BA2 Ota

When

04 September 1957

Who reported it

4 military pilots in a four-ship of F-84G Thunderjets

Entities described

None reported

Handled as

INSUFFICIENT SOURCE PROVENANCE

Evidence class

GOV-1

The record

An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.

UNVERIFIED - archive at https://arquivohistorico-forcaaerea.defesa.gov.pt/

No document is attached yet. The retrieval is open work.

What is not settled

The confirmed contemporaneous artefact is a statement given to a civilian magazine's correspondent, not a service document. Until the Arquivo Historico produces a 1957 occurrence report this is a distinguished witness with an unlocated file.

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