Fatima 1917: A Contested Data Set at the Intersection of Miracle, Misperception, and Anomalous Aerial Phenomena

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Mass witnesses in Fatima in 1917 saw a promised sign interpreted by three observers—Lúcia dos Santos with Francisco and Jacinta Marto as the seers, journalist Avelino de Almeida, and skeptic Domingos Pinto Coelho—within a charged church–state climate, leaving a lasting cultural footprint around the Shrine and offering lessons for UAP research to use flexible categories, pursue predictions, and treat long-term social effects as part of the signal while acknowledging misperception, legend, and possible hoax.