Spanish UFO Files

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.

## ANEXO 00

CALCULO DE L.V.E. $\hat{\vec{B}}, \hat{\vec{V}}, h, y \hat{\alpha}$

Longitud "L" del paraleleo L=2 7 R=3.5051,379 K m.

Velocidad "V" de giro de un

punto del paraleleo 29° $V = \frac{3.5051,379}{24} 1460,47 K$

Espacio recorrido 'hacia la noche'

por el punto E(ELCANO) en UNA

HORA DIEZ MINUTOS

Calculo de $\hat{\vec{B}}$:360° -3.5051,379 K

$\hat{\vec{B}}$ -1.406,886 K

Calculo de $\hat{\vec{V}}$ 360° -3.5051,379 K

$\hat{\vec{V}}$ -1.703,88 K

Altura "h" del ultimo rayo solar $\hat{\vec{B}}$

$R h = \frac{R}{\cos \hat{\vec{B}}} = \frac{5578.60}{\cos 1314^\circ} = 5.728,632$ $h = 150$