Portugal · 02 November 1982

Near BA2 Ota, 1982

Reported

Three serving air force pilots file separate reports the same day about a metallic disc that climbed from near ground level to 5,000 ft in under ten seconds and then orbited their light trainers at fifteen feet.

Where

Near BA2 Ota, over Serra de Montejunto, ~50km north of Lisbon

When

02 November 1982

Who reported it

3 Forca Aerea Portuguesa officers in two Chipmunk trainers

Entities described

None reported

Handled as

INVESTIGATED / UNRESOLVED

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 - described at https://uapglobe.com/cases/portugal-1982

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

What is not settled

The best-attested Portuguese case but still pilot testimony alone: no radar, no photograph, no instrument record published. Performance figures are witness estimates from a slow trainer at close range. Chain of custody of the released records is undocumented.

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