Portuguese air force on alert over UFO sighting

[Champ]

LISBON (AFP) - The Portuguese airforce has been on alert since late Tuesday, when several authorities and witnesses reported seeing a luminous unidentified flying object.


"Military radar surveillance has been increased and F16 planes are ready for take-off," tabloid daily Correio da Manha reported Thursday.


It said the Portuguese civil protection service had received scores of calls from people who reported briefly seeing a silent, luminous object in the sky on Tuesday night, giving off white smoke.


Air force spokesman Colonel Carlos Barbosa confirmed to Lusa news agency that military radars had detected "a target... that was not identified as a plane" for two or three minutes.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1516&ncid=1516&e=1&u=/afp/20040603/od_afp/portugal_air_ufo_040603133739

[Minstrel Boy]

1. Lots of this going on.

Notably in Mexico and Iran, with numerous witnesses, video and official confirmation.

But naturally there can't be anything to any of it, because that would be...too scary.

[Fridays Child]

2. Portugal seems like a nice place to live. Is it a dictatorship, like...

...the United States?

[FDRrocks]

3. I always suspected the Portugese Air Force would save our ass

when the UFO's come to destroy Earth.

[Champ]

4. lol

:D