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- 01PDFEjército del Aire / Ministerio de Defensap.1
Expediente Canarias 22 June 1976, the Spanish Air Force file on one of the Canary Islands UAP wave sightings the country's military aviation authorities investigated in the late 1970s.
The Canary Islands experienced a multi-year UAP reporting wave in the mid-late 1970s. The 22 June 1976 expediente is the Spanish Air Force's investigation file on one of those sightings, preserved as part of the Biblioteca Central del Ejército del Aire's declassified case archive.
→ Expediente, Avistamiento en Canarias (22 June 1976)
- 02PDFEjército del Aire / Ministerio de Defensap.1
Expediente Bardenas Reales, 2 January 1975. The Air Force's case file on a Navarre sighting at the Bardenas Reales military training range, the desert semi-arid region the Spanish Air Force uses for live-fire exercises.
Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert region in Navarre used by the Spanish Air Force as a live-fire training range. The 2 January 1975 expediente is the case file on a UAP sighting at the range, an institutional record where the witness context is military aircrew operating in an active training airspace.
→ Expediente, Avistamiento en Bardenas Reales, Navarra (2 January 1975)
- 03PDFEjército del Aire / Ministerio de Defensap.1
Expediente EVA-5 Aitana, 24 April 1986. The Air Force's case file on a sighting from one of the Escuadrón de Vigilancia Aérea radar stations, an institutional UAP record originating from a working military radar site.
EVA-5 Aitana is one of the Spanish Air Force's Escuadrón de Vigilancia Aérea radar stations, located near Alicante. The 24 April 1986 expediente is the case file generated from a sighting at the station, an unusual institutional record in that the originating site is a working military air-defence radar facility rather than a civilian witness location.
→ Expediente, Avistamiento en EVA-5 Aitana, Alicante (24 April 1986)
- 04PDFEjército del Aire / Ministerio de Defensap.1
The Manises expediente. Three November 1979 incidents (Valencia, Motril, Madrid) consolidated into a single Air Force file, including the Manises emergency landing and a 1994 internal sweep with the radar- and RHAW-confirmed Madrid scramble of 28 November.
The Spanish Air Force expediente numbers 791111, 791117, and 791128 (Bis) consolidate three November 1979 UAP incidents (Valencia, Motril, and Madrid) into a single file held at the Biblioteca Central del Ejército del Aire. The file includes the Manises emergency landing case (11 November), additional sightings on 17 November, and a 1994 internal declassification sweep that produced a detailed aircrew report of a radar- and RHAW-confirmed scramble over Madrid on 28 November 1979.
→ Expediente Manises, Avistamientos Valencia–Motril–Madrid II (November 1979)
- 05PDFEjército del Aire / Ministerio de Defensap.2
Expediente 790305 covers a phenomenon observed across the Canary Islands and from Africa (Safi, Sáhara) on the evening of 5 March 1979.
Spanish Air Force expediente 790305 documenting a widely witnessed 5 March 1979 aerial phenomenon over the Canary Islands and parts of Africa, declassified in 1995.
→ Expediente, Avistamiento en Canarias (5 March 1979)
- 06PDFEjército del Aire / Ministerio de Defensap.2
Expediente 741124 covers the 24 November 1974 Canary Islands sighting and was logged into the Air Force Central Library on 25 February 1994 under entry no. 59.
Spanish Air Force Expediente 741124 documenting the 24 November 1974 Canary Islands sighting, declassified 8 February 1994 and assessed as an unexplained but no-longer-classified incident.
→ Expediente, Avistamiento en Canarias (24 November 1974)
- 07PDFEjército del Aire / Ministerio de Defensap.4
Expediente 710223 covers a wave of sightings on 23 February 1971 across Barcelona, Huesca, Lérida and the Mar Cantábrico, declassified at Torrejón on 23 September 1993.
Spanish Air Force (Ejército del Aire) declassified expediente 710223 documenting a 23 February 1971 multi-witness sighting wave across Barcelona, Huesca, Lérida and the Cantabrian Sea, ultimately attributed to the atmospheric re-entry of a French ONERA 'Tibère' rocket launched from Biscarrosse.
→ Expediente, Avistamiento múltiple Barcelona–Huesca–Lérida–Mar Cantábrico (23 February 1971)
- 08PDFEjército del Aire / Ministerio de Defensap.2
Case file 800522 covers a 22 May 1980 sighting in the Canary Islands, processed by the Mando Aéreo de Canarias (MACAN) and downgraded from SECRETO to DESCLASIFICADO in 1995.
Spanish Air Force expediente 800522 on a 22 May 1980 unidentified radar/visual contact off the Canary Islands, declassified November 1995.
→ Expediente, Avistamiento en Canarias (22 May 1980)
- 09PDFEjército del Aire / Ministerio de Defensap.2
Sighting occurred 24 October 1978 around 20:30 local time off Menorca, Balearic Islands.
Spanish Air Force expediente 781024 on the 24 October 1978 Menorca sighting, declassified 10 May 1995, documenting two unidentified objects reported by an AVIACO DC-9 commander and corroborated by the Menorca tower controller.
→ Expediente, Avistamiento en Menorca (24 October 1978)
- 10PDFEjército del Aire / Ministerio de Defensap.1
Expediente number 680314, location Villa Cisneros, date listed as 13 March 1968 on the cover and 14 March 1968 in the operative summary.
Spanish Air Force expediente 680314 documenting a 14 March 1968 sighting of a luminous object observed from the Spantax IB-371/372 flight and from the ground at Villa Cisneros air base in Spanish Sahara.
→ Expediente, Avistamiento en Villa Cisneros (14 March 1968)
- 11PDFEjército del Aire / Ministerio de Defensap.2
Event occurred at 04:12 on 13 September 1991 at EVA-4 Rosas (Gerona).
Spanish Air Force expediente 910913 documenting a 13 September 1991 sighting of a luminous spherical object circling the EVA-4 Rosas radar station, declassified at Torrejón on 20 February 1996.
→ Expediente, Avistamiento en EVA-4 Rosas, Gerona (13 September 1991)
- 12PDFEjército del Aire / Ministerio de Defensap.3
The intelligence officer of the MOA, writing from Torrejón on 3 November 1996, proposed the classification "DESCLASIFICADO" for the Normativa OVNI package, finding no aspects that recommended maintaining classified status.
A formally declassified 1996 Spanish Air Force file containing the Normativa OVNI, the regulatory backbone of the 1992-1999 Ministerio de Defensa UFO declassification programme.
→ Normativa OVNI, Spanish Air Force UFO Investigation and Declassification Procedure (8 November 1996)
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