Expediente — Avistamiento en Canarias (22 June 1976)

Brief

Expediente 760622 is the Spanish Air Force's official case file for the UAP incident of 22 June 1976 over the Canary Islands, cataloged under the 'Avistamiento de Fenomenos Extraños (Expedientes OVNI)' classification. The file is held by the Biblioteca Central del Ejército del Aire (BCEA) at Air Force General Headquarters in Madrid. Per the war.gov description, the incident was among the major mid-1970s Canarias events that drove the Ejército del Aire to establish formal UAP investigation procedures. The full file runs 107 pages; only the cover sheet yielded machine-readable text.

Metadata

Agency

Ejército del Aire / Ministerio de Defensa

Release

1976-06-22

Type

PDF • .pdf

Length

107 pages

Classification

UNCLASSIFIED

Programs

Avistamiento de Fenomenos Extraños, BCEA OVNI Expediente Archive

Tags

Canary Islands, Spain, 1976, Expediente OVNI, formal investigation

Key points

• Case file number 760622 follows an apparent YYMMDD format, indicating systematic date-based cataloging of UAP expedientes within the Spanish Air Force archive.p.1
• The file is formally classified under 'Avistamiento de Fenomenos Extraños (Expedientes OVNI)' — the Ejército del Aire's standing category for strange-phenomena sightings.p.1
• Custodian is the Biblioteca Central del Ejército del Aire (BCEA) at Cuartel General del Ejército del Aire, Romero Robledo 8, Madrid — the institutional home of Spain's declassified military UAP archive.p.1
• The incident is sited in the Canary Islands and dated 22 June 1976.p.1
• The 22 June 1976 event is identified in the release description as one of the incidents that prompted the Ejército del Aire to formalize its UAP investigation procedures.
• The file spans 107 pages, the bulk of which are image-only scans with no machine-readable text — consistent with photocopied hand-written testimony or internal correspondence.

Most interesting

• The Canary Islands experienced at least two major UAP incidents in 1976 — this June event and a separate November incident — making the archipelago a focal point of Spanish military UAP documentation in the mid-1970s.
• Spain's Ejército del Aire is among the few military institutions worldwide to have formally declassified and published its full UAP expediente archive through an official government digital library (Biblioteca Virtual de Defensa, bibliotecavirtual.defensa.gob.es).
• The BCEA contact information printed on the cover — including a public telephone number, fax, and email address — signals that this archive was released with the explicit intent of researcher access rather than passive declassification.
• At 107 pages, this single incident file is substantial, implying multiple witness statements, follow-up investigations, or supporting documentation well beyond an initial sighting report.
• The expediente numbering system (760622 = YYMMDD) suggests the archive spans decades of incidents, organized by date rather than threat category — a bureaucratic choice that reflects administrative rather than intelligence handling.