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UFO case file · UFO-18464

Pavão at Montargil — February 6, 1980

CE3Portugal1980-02-06

MONTARGIL, PORTUGAL, AAL, Portugal

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Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Pavão at Montargil — February 6, 1980
Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Pavão at Montargil — February 6, 1980

Case description

A fifty-five-year-old farmer identified as Mr. Pavão reportedly encountered two unusually tall figures while taking sheep to pasture near Montargil on February 6,1980. Around 11 a.m., a noise and his dog's alarm caused him to turn. The figures were described as strongly built, approximately eight feet tall and wearing gray suits without helmets. Their faces were broadly humanlike, although the source says their skin and eyes looked different without specifying exactly how. Their large hands were reportedly hairy. They approached with apparently friendly gestures, touched his shoulder and spoke in an unfamiliar language. One pointed at the sheep; Pavão replied by naming the animals while the figures continued talking and laughing. Pavão then instructed his dog to bring a sheep. Turning back, he reported a dazzling flash that briefly obscured his sight. Once he could see again, both figures had disappeared. No vehicle, boarding sequence or flight is described. The chronology attributes the narrative to Victor Lourenço's PORTUCAT. It does not provide the interview, the farmer's full identity, an independently observed disappearance or subsequent investigation. The claim is therefore an entity encounter with a brief visual interruption. Adding a saucer or an abduction would create details absent from the source.

Recorded details

Named witnesses
Mr Pavão / Pavao; full identity unverified
Local time
11:00
Witnesses
1 reported human observer
Craft description
No craft described in the examined catalogue account.
Entity description
Humanlike, Other Humanoid
Coordinate precision
SOURCE_APPROXIMATE
Date precision
EXACT_DAY

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