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UFO sighting are divided into arbitrary eras by colors. The oldest ones in blue, range from 1551 thru 1959, and seem to favor Portugal and parts of North Africa.

The greatest number of sightings are in the middle years (1960 - 1979) shown in violet. A dense cluster of these lies west of Seville.

The most recent era (1980 to present in green) shows a loose grouping in NW Spain. In all, 466 sightings show on this the Iberian Peninsula. About 26% of those are in Portugal alone, for a higher density of sightings over area. Recent reports in Portugal are rare in the data available here, virtually nil in North Africa.

With 5000 sightings registered by the Fundacion Anomalia group in Spain alone, clearly this display is only a representative sampling.





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