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This is Spanish Air Force file 761119, released by the Ejército del Aire and declassified in 1994. It covers a luminous phenomenon seen over the Canary Islands on 19 November 1976 by the crew of the training ship Juan Sebastián Elcano, a T-12 aircraft carrying the Canary Islands Air Zone commander, a Spantax crew and witnesses in Guía near Gáldar. The file includes Informe 02/76 with 14 witness statements, radar and weather data, the investigating judge's proposal for a UFO study center, and airline reports of a bright dome over Málaga. The general's own view was that it was an unidentified optical phenomenon.
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DECLARACION NUM. 03
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CLASIFICACION 2 $ ^{a} $ A
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A. - OBSERVADOR
1. - Nombre y apellidos:
DESCLASIFICADO
2. - Profesión: Marino.
3. - Esado: Casado.
4. - Natural de: Cartagena (Murcia).
5. - Empresa en que trabaja: —— Marina de Guerra. Buque "JUAN SEBASTIAN ELCANO
6. - Categoría ó empleo: Teniente de Navio
7. - Años de Servicio ó Experiencia: 12 años.
3.- ¿ Usaba gafas, lentes de contacto, graduadas ó de sol en el momento de la
observación?: NO
EXP 761119
B.- FECHA HORA Y SITUACION METEOROLOGICA
1. - Fecha: 19-11-76
2. - Hora (Z): 19,10 horas
3.- Situación meteorológica de la Zona ( $ \backslash $ ser posible, incluir Meteo de la oficina Meteorológica): Horizonte con algunas nubes; cielo despejado; completamente estrellado; calma.
$ \mathrm{W} = 0 8 0 \mathrm{g} - 4 $ Kts.
$ \mathrm{P a} = 7 6 0 $ m.m.
$ \mathrm{H d a d} = 1 3 - 2 1. $ 73 % Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 91 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.