Spanish military declassified documents on contacts with aliens
Released documents from Spain's secret military archives, housed in the so-called "Virtual Library of the Ministry of Defense" https://bibliotecavirtualdefensa.es, include 84 dossiers of 1,900 pages and contain reports of 122 sightings from 1962 to 1995. Among them - 20 cases when UFOs were recorded by radars, 15 incidents when planes were raised to intercept and even 10 "close contacts" - that is, encounters with humanoids.
Eyewitnesses in military uniform
On January 1, 1975, at 6.25 am, four soldiers were returning by car to the Military Engineering Academy of Burgos after the New Year's leave. Despite the holiday, they were all sober. 14 kilometers from Burgos, the driver noticed an object descending in a parabola. The UFO did not hit the ground, as would be expected from a shell or rocket, but froze over the field.
The driver stopped. Everyone got out of the car. 400 meters from the highway, a luminous object in the form of a truncated cone hung low above the field. It was about two meters high and three meters in diameter at the base. It emitted a yellowish light, and luminous jets gushed from the bottom.
While the soldiers were looking at the UFO, two more cars with civilians arrived. In front of eyewitnesses, the object suddenly went out. When the light "turned on", everyone saw that now there are four "plates" shining in the field!
The soldiers decided to leave in order to quickly report on what had happened. On the way, they stopped again, seeing two other UFOs in the distance. At the place where the objects were hanging, traces of exposure to high temperatures were then found.
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The next day, January 2, 1975, the objects visited the Bardenas Reales Air Force training ground. At 22.55, a soldier stationed near the main tower noticed a stationary red light at ground level. He summoned the corporal, who came accompanied by three soldiers. A few minutes later this "fire" rose up and slowly flew towards the auxiliary tower. Upon reaching it, the UFO changed its direction of flight, increasing its brightness and speed, and then disappeared from view.
At 11.10 pm, the corporal reported by telephone to the duty sergeant about the observation. The sergeant went outside and through binoculars saw an object that looked like an "inverted cup" with white and yellow pulsing lights above and below. The UFO "the size of a large truck" was in the same location as the first object at the start of the observation. The lights illuminated the surrounding landscape within a radius of hundreds of meters.
At 23.25 the object took off, heading for the auxiliary tower. After making the same maneuver, the UFO disappeared from sight after 15 minutes. Five soldiers near the main tower also saw the object take off and maneuver.
The second observation did not go unnoticed by journalists. On January 5, 1975, an article "UFO over the Bardenas Reales training ground" appeared in the ABC newspaper in Madrid. It said that this is not the first observation of the forbidden territory. In 1973, after a "strange luminous object" appeared in the sky, a military plane crashed there. Fortunately, the pilot and navigator managed to jump out with parachutes. Reporters spoke with "Lieutenant Campos, who serves at the test site and saw the UFO with his own eyes," but he declined to give details, "as the incident is classified and is now being investigated by the authorities."
UFOs that evening were seen not only by the military, but also by residents of the nearby town of Tudela. The Spanish Air Force had to urgently come up with an "explanation" to calm the growing passions. "This is just an optical effect caused by the lunar halo," read a press release issued by the military.
One of the declassified documents of the Spanish Air Force. On December 8, 1980, a UFO was seen from the ships "Conquistador" and "Besugo", similar to a plane engulfed in fire
Belated worry
In the 1960s, the declassified documents suggest that the military showed little interest in UFOs. Messages arrived at the Air Force bases almost by accident: no one knew that the military could be told about the "saucers". It wasn't until 1968, when a wave of UFO sightings swept across Spain, that the military took on the brunt of the celestial mysteries. On December 5, 1968, the Air Force press center called on all citizens to report their sightings to the nearest air base. Unlike the Americans or the French, in Spain they did not create a "UFO" unit. The investigation was led by interrogators, who treated UFO visits as ordinary flight accidents. They collected eyewitness testimony, requested additional data, evaluated information and prepared final reports.
On April 2, 1969, a UFO appeared over the 476 kilometer of the Madrid-Ferrol highway. At 8 o'clock in the morning, the driver saw “a round object with a diameter of about two meters. One edge was like a shell, the other was flat. The entire facility was illuminated with fantastic colors; it seemed that its contents consisted of small multi-colored plates, similar to a mosaic. " The UFO was "stationary and not high above the ground." The eyewitness turned away to find a place on the side of the road where you can safely stop, but when he found him, the UFO had already disappeared. The interrogator suggested that his observation might have been "an optical illusion caused by the sun's reflection off a granite rock," but did not deny the possibility "that the eyewitness account was objective and accurate."
Of course, not all observations of the 1960s were unsupported stories told by one eyewitness. On May 13, 1969, at Reus Air Force Base near Tarragona, in the province of Catalonia, air traffic controllers saw a motionless "luminous ball with spots" hanging motionless. They ordered a nearby light aircraft to approach the UFO in order to identify the object. When the plane approached, the "ball" disappeared.
In the 1970s, civilians had time to forget that information about UFOs had to be transmitted through official channels. Messages continued to come only from pilots, sailors and the military.
On July 14, 1978, during military exercises near Mazarron, in the province of Murcia, officers of one of the units observed a UFO for two hours. First, a red light appeared over the pond, swinging to the right and left. After 15 minutes, he disappeared. When the soldiers returned to the camp, they saw that now a red light was hanging less than 10 meters above the road. Then two white lights joined him. The soldiers went to the UFO. Objects began to move and flew over rough terrain, smoothly skirting hills and trees. They never dropped below 4 meters or rose above 30 meters. After describing a large loop, the UFOs returned to the road again in a different location. The soldiers did not notice the moment of their disappearance or did not consider it necessary to describe.
A week later, a UFO appeared over the Agoncillo airfield. A soldier standing at a post at the gate noticed him at 01.20 and called the authorities. The lieutenant and corporal who arrived at the scene, for five minutes observed an object moving slowly and soundlessly from east to west at an altitude of about a kilometer. All agreed that a bright white light flashed in the center of the UFO at intervals of a second. Further descriptions diverge. Some said that a rhombus flew across the sky, others that a triangle. At the corners of the object were less bright white lights - four if you believe the first, and three if you believe the second. The UFO did not change its flight path and soon disappeared from view.
Sketches of UFOs and humanoids by Dr. Julio Padron Leon
Humanoids prefer the Canary Islands
It cannot be said that the now declassified dossiers were completely unknown to ufologists. Until 2016, they could familiarize themselves with them in the archives of the Ministry of Defense upon special request. It was even allowed to make the necessary extracts. Ufologists identified about 85 percent of the observations.
On June 22, 1976 at 9:27 pm, the crew of the Atrevida corvette near Fuertaventura (Canary Islands) noticed something strange:
“A luminous spot of bright yellow with blueness appeared on the surface, which rose into the air in our direction … The spot, having risen to a sufficient height (15-18º), stopped, its luminous beam rotated, allowing us to see the light source. This went on for about two minutes. A large luminous ball of bright yellow-blue color was formed, which remained there for forty minutes, even when the spot itself disappeared. Two minutes later, the ball disintegrated … The upper part quickly and unevenly took off in a spiral and disappeared. The movement did not affect the initial halo, which remained the same, illuminating part of the land and sea."
Ufologists found out: at this time the US Navy submarine SSBN-632 "Von Steuben" (it was named after the Prussian officer Wilhelm von Steuben, who took part in the American Revolution) fired two Poseidon-type missiles at intervals of one minute. The colorful effect seen by the captain and crew of the Atrevida was caused by the expanding gases illuminated by the setting sun.
June 22, 1976, Maspalomas, Canary Islands. Poseidon missile launch by American submarine was mistaken for UFO
But there is no explanation for what happened on the same day on the island of Gran Canaria. Dr. Julio Padrón Leon said that he, along with Francisco Estevets from Santiago del Pino and the taxi driver in which they were traveling, saw a giant bluish "bubble" 60 meters away, hanging motionless at a height of two meters above the ground. We know their names, because the journalists got to the witnesses before the military:
“The receiver in the car went silent, and we felt a terrible breath of cold, - the driver even began to tremble. Not believing my eyes, I told my companions about this, but it was a fact: absolutely correctly luminous sphere shone against the background of the night darkness. Inside it were two strange, huge figures. We saw them for almost 20 minutes at a very close distance. The ball was transparent, like a giant soap bubble the size of a two-story house. We could see the starry sky through it. Inside, we saw something like a silver platform with dashboards. They did not have right angles, everything was kind of rounded there. The creatures in tight-fitting suits and “diving helmets” in black with a reddish tint had a height of 2.8-3 m. Their arms ended in some kind of cones. We did not see the fingers. They stood facing each other, moving their arms, as if they were controlling some kind of levers. What surprised me was some kind of disproportionate protruding nape.
The driver turned on the high beam, and as if from this the "bubble" rose to the level of the roofs of nearby houses. At this moment, we saw a vertical transparent tube inside the sphere, from which a bluish gas flowed, enveloping it from the inside. Then it began to swell, reaching the size of a 20-story building. Meanwhile, the pilots, platform and dashboards have not changed their size. In horror, we turned the taxi around, rushed to the nearest houses and took refuge in one of them, together with the family living there, continuing to watch the sphere out of the window. When it reached incredible dimensions, gas or liquid stopped flowing inside. Then the sphere, changing its shape, instantly darted towards the island of Tenerife, making a hissing sound. Now she looked like a spindle surrounded by a bright white halo."
The doctor's story with sketches was also included in the Air Force dossier. The investigators did not take this story seriously - not because they doubted the witnesses' sincerity or suspected them of deception, but because of the incredible nature of the message.
On March 5, 1979, the American submarine SSBN-642 Woodrow Wilson again puzzled the Canary Islands by firing four missiles. The dossier for this incident contains over 300 pages and 40 photographs taken independently by three photographers. This time, the humanoids did not come to see the launch.
Aliens have fun
One of the most mysterious cases recovered from war papers occurred on November 17, 1979.
At 4:20 pm, the Pegasus Air Defense Operations Center found an "unknown mark" on the radar screens 40 kilometers south of Motril. After 25 minutes from the Los Llanos base, the Mirage fighter number EO-01 was raised to intercept. At this time, the mark began to blink and at times completely disappeared.
The pilot reached the area where the UFO was supposed to be, but saw nothing. Soon the mark disappeared, and after nine minutes of unsuccessful search, the pilot decided to return to base. But the fun was just beginning:
“EO-01 saw on the right, at the same altitude, at a distance of 10 nautical miles, three powerful lights of the same color (a mixture of yellow and bright red) and brightness, forming an isosceles triangle. On Pegasus's orders, he headed for the center of the triangle formed by the lights. No marks were detected by the onboard radar. The relative distance to the object did not decrease.
After a 10-minute chase at a speed of 1160 km / h, EO-01 could not get close to the lights and decided to return to Los Llanos airbase. After turning EO-01, I heard some children's voices on the Pegasa radio channel, laughing and saying: “Hey, how are you there? Hey, hey … "The noise lasted about 30 seconds."
The investigation revealed a strange fact. The Pegasus dispatchers did not hear any voices!
In the 1980s, observations continued to come gradually to the military. On August 19, 1982 at 22.30 an eyewitness from Blanes noticed a "plate" from an apartment facing the sea. Seven more people were with him, and they all watched the heavenly spectacle with amazement. The first eyewitness heard the sound as from a flying plane. And when he lifted his head, he saw a circle of lights flashing at regular intervals. Through binoculars, he made out a clockwise rotating "cylindrical disc twice the size of an aircraft." The speed and altitude of the UFO did not change; then he turned around so that he could be seen from above and below. The object had 7-8 illuminated "windows".
"Cylindrical Disc" over Blanes, 19 August 1982
The observation lasted three minutes. An eyewitness sketched what he saw, made a description and sent it to the headquarters of the Spanish Air Force.
On December 23, 1985, the ship "Manuel Soto" sailed out of the port of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. At 03.10 the watchman noticed a bright star on the bow, which was rising above the horizon. At 03.25 the "star" began to move rapidly, approached the ship and in two minutes passed directly over it. At that moment, everyone saw the silhouette of a UFO - it did not look like an airplane or a helicopter. A bright fire burned in the center, a source of weaker red light was nearby, a little further away - something emitted white light. It seemed to the sailors that the object was flying low, but they did not hear any sounds.
It seems that the military has posted on the Internet far from everything that is in their dossier. One declassified document briefly mentions that on February 25, 1980, "… the pilots and passengers of the 401st Squadron aircraft observed a strange light source during the flight from Germany to Madrid with President Adolfo Suarez on board." The details of such a remarkable observation are still unknown. There is no description of the incident at Talavera Air Force Base, where the military fired at a humanoid from machine guns, but could not kill or injure him.
Declassification fashion
In 2016, many countries joined in declassifying their UFO archives or continued the work they had begun to digitize their UFO legacy. The reason for this activity is clear. The declassification of a dossier on an exciting topic automatically puts the decision-maker on the front pages of newspapers, playing to his popularity. Where more than half of the population believes in UFOs, the promise to declassify the archives also brings a noticeable percentage of votes in the election campaign. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton used this weapon during the election campaign.
For the military, declassification of UFO papers is also beneficial - it eliminates the need to respond to hundreds of requests from those wishing to familiarize themselves with the dossier and even lawsuits.
The secret in the declassified papers were not the UFOs themselves, but a description of actions to intercept or identify, mention military equipment and air force bases. They become obsolete over time and can be issued without too many problems. Now, when fifth-generation fighters are in service, information from 30 years ago is of historical interest and cannot reveal anything important that could damage the defenses.
None of the documents provide an answer to the question of whether UFOs and humanoids exist. However, all together they show: not only civilians, but also the military, who have at hand the equipment for identifying and intercepting air targets, are faced with oddities. Perhaps in the future we will see more solid evidence of an alien presence on Earth.
Mikhail GERSHTEIN