Malaga (Spain), Spain
The UFO was smaller than a helicopter to put in perspective and had a white hue around the object.
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (98 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-09-12
- Where
- Malaga (Spain), Spain
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 4 sec
- Geo
- 36.720, -4.420 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-malaga-spain-2008-bda2bf
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
- This is one of 3 reports logged in Malaga (Spain), Spain.
- This case is one of 7 Spain reports filed in 2008.
- Teardrop craft made up 1.1% of 2000s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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