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Nave Espacial de Varginha

Brazil

The 186th tallest tower in the world

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The Nave Espacial de Varginha (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈnavjispasiˈaw dʒi vaʁˈʒĩɲɐ], Varginha's spacecraft), located in Varginha, Brazil, is a 20-meter-tall water tower with a disc-shaped water reservoir. It was built in 2001, and commemorates the so-called Varginha UFO incident of 1996.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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