Playa de las Americas (Spain), Spain
Incredibly fast object moving across the horizon in a fraction of a second.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-06-13
- Where
- Playa de las Americas (Spain), Spain
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 1 second max
- Geo
- 28.064, -16.730 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-playa-de-las-americas-spain-2008-8083fd
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- Playa de las Americas (Spain), Spain has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 7 reports from Spain.
- The 2000s skewed 2.7% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.