In Portugal, people are beginning to witness anomalous phenomena in the skies. Images of "strange" phenomena spotted this month in the coastal city of Cascais and the village of Sagres have caught attention.
Witnesses said that "they were not planes" or satellites, and so far there is no explanation for what happened.
Anomalous points of light, visible to the naked eye at night, were described as "emerging from the sea and intensifying into a huge ball of light."
Vera Cardoso, an archaeologist, observed the phenomenon on the night of December 9, at Cabo Raso, in Cascais. Speaking to
TVI (part of CNN Portugal), she reported:
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They were not planes at all. They were just above the horizon, which rules out the possibility of them being satellites." Rui Caratão, a bird monitoring technician, also described a similar experience at Cabo de São Vicente, in Sagres:
"They were anomalous lights, slowly rising on the horizon, no more than 20 degrees high. They intensified and then disappeared. It was something really strange." The biologist adds: "Satellites are not seen so low on the horizon at night. I used binoculars with infrared vision and managed to capture the phenomenon at a speed 15 times faster than real. The most curious thing was that the movement seemed limited to a small strip on the horizon, between west and northwest-west, and did not exceed 20 degrees in altitude in the sky."
Vera Cardoso added, describing the points of light as
"reddish in color, almost orange, very intense".
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