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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.

# DESCLASIFICADO

CLASIFICACION 3a A

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A. - OBSERVADOR

1. - Nombre y Apellidos:

2. - Profesión: Marino.

3. - Estado: Soltero.

4. - Natural de: Oviedo.

5. - Empresa en que trabaja: Marina de Guerra Española.

6. - Categoría ó Empleo: Cabo 2º Maniobras.

7. - Años de Servicio ó Experiencia: 1 año.

8. - ¿Usaba g fas, lentes de contacto, graduadas ó de sol en el momento de la observación?: NO

B.- FECHA, HORA Y SITUACION METEOROLOGICA

1. - Fecha: 19-11-76

2. - hora (Z): 19,15 horas.

3. - Situación Meteorológica de la Zona ( a ser posible incluir Meteo de la oficina meteorológica ): Cielo descubierto y estrellado; Viento, visi bilidad buena, horizonte con algunas nubes; calma en el mar.

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