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Commercial flights IB 841 (Barcelona-Madrid) and IB 867 (Barcelona-Murcia) independently queried Barcelona ACC at 18:15Z and 18:20Z respectively...

A 71-page Spanish Air Force expediente documenting a February 23, 1971 multi-province sighting wave across Barcelona, Huesca, Lerida, and the Cantabrian Sea, ultimately identified as the atmospheric re-entry of a French ONERA 'Tibere' rocket launched under Operation Electre.

→ Expediente — Avistamiento múltiple Barcelona–Huesca–Lérida–Mar Cantábrico (23 February 1971)

Sighting occurred at 04:12 local time, 13 September 1991, at EVA-4 (Escuadrón de Vigilancia Aérea N.º 4), Rosas, Gerona — an active air-surveillance...

Spanish Air Force expediente documenting a silent, spherical luminous object performing precise circles over the EVA-4 radar installation at Rosas, Gerona at 04:12 on 13 September 1991, witnessed by three military personnel with no corresponding radar return.

→ Expediente — Avistamiento en EVA-4 Rosas, Gerona (13 September 1991)

On 24 April 1986 at 00:22Z, EVA-5 activated manual tracking for unknown objects between 100 and 120 degrees bearing at altitudes beginning at 8,000...

Spanish Air Force intelligence expediente on radar-tracked UAP contacts at Escuadrón de Vigilancia Aérea No. 5 (Aitana, Alicante) on 24 and 26 April 1986, assembled in 1994 and declassified in 1998.

→ Expediente — Avistamiento en EVA-5 Aitana, Alicante (24 April 1986)

The file carries the formal title 'Avistamiento de Fenómenos Extraños (Expedientes OVNI)' — the Ejército del Aire's standard designation for UAP case...

Cover page of Spanish Air Force Expediente 790305, the official UAP case file for a mass sighting over the Canary Islands on 5 March 1979, held at the Biblioteca Central del Ejército del Aire in Madrid.

→ Expediente — Avistamiento en Canarias (5 March 1979)

Radar operators stated the detected objects represented a real existence in space, with propagation described as good and screen presentation normal...

Spanish Air Force official investigation file on anomalous aerial phenomena reported over the Canary Islands on 24 November 1974, incorporating witness declarations, traffic data, meteorological records, radar operator testimony, and a formal judge's report.

→ Expediente — Avistamiento en Canarias (24 November 1974)

JEMA Circular Nº 9266-C-T (26 December 1968) established Spain's foundational UFO investigation procedure, requiring designation of a regional...

The Ejército del Aire's compiled regulatory history of its UFO investigation procedures — directives spanning December 1968 through 1985 — released in November 1996 as part of Spain's 1992–1999 military UAP declassification programme.

→ Normativa OVNI — Spanish Air Force UFO Investigation and Declassification Procedure (8 November 1996)

Case file number 760622 follows an apparent YYMMDD format, indicating systematic date-based cataloging of UAP expedientes within the Spanish Air...

Cover sheet of Ejército del Aire expediente 760622 — the Spanish Air Force's formal case file on the 22 June 1976 Canary Islands UAP sighting.

→ Expediente — Avistamiento en Canarias (22 June 1976)

The file is formally designated 'Expediente Número: 800522' — the Air Force's own case-numbering scheme encodes the date (800522 = 1980-05-22).

Spanish Air Force cover sheet for expediente 800522 — the official case file for an unidentified phenomenon sighting over the Canary Islands on 22 May 1980.

→ Expediente — Avistamiento en Canarias (22 May 1980)

Expediente number 750102 — the Spanish Air Force's internal identifier for this case, filed under the formal category 'Avistamiento de Fenómenos...

Spanish Air Force expediente cataloguing a 2 January 1975 sighting of unidentified aerial phenomena by military ground witnesses at the Bardenas Reales live-fire training range in Navarra.

→ Expediente — Avistamiento en Bardenas Reales, Navarra (2 January 1975)

The official expediente number is 781024, encoding the incident date directly (year 78, month 10, day 24).

Spanish Air Force cover sheet for Expediente 781024 — the official OVNI case file for a luminous-object sighting over Menorca on 24 October 1978.

→ Expediente — Avistamiento en Menorca (24 October 1978)

The luminous object appeared in two distinct phases: during the approach to Villa Cisneros (disappearing roughly 10 seconds after the crew queried...

Spanish Air Force expediente documenting the 14 March 1968 encounter near Villa Cisneros airport in Spanish Sahara, in which a SPANTAX commercial flight crew and more than 50 ground witnesses observed an unidentified luminous object that accompanied the aircraft on its return leg to Las Palmas, with no explanation determined.

→ Expediente — Avistamiento en Villa Cisneros (14 March 1968)

Ejército del Aire expediente on the November 1979 Manises incident: TAE Supercaravelle Flight JK-297 (Mallorca–Las Palmas) was forced to make an emergency landing at Manises airport on 11 November 1979 after the crew reported being paced by unidentified luminous objects.

→ Expediente Manises — Avistamientos Valencia–Motril–Madrid II (November 1979)