Avistamiento de fenómenos extraños en Valencia, Motril y Madrid: 11, 17 y 28 de noviembre de 1979 (expedientes 791111, 791117, 791128)

Record

Author / institution

Ejército del Aire, Mando Operativo Aéreo, Estado Mayor, Sección de Inteligencia (Biblioteca Virtual de Defensa, Expedientes OVNI)

Date

1979-11 (summary dated 29 Jul 1994; declassified JEMA 3216, 11 Aug 1994)

Source type

Declassified military file (Spanish Air Force)

Used for

CASE-076: PDF pp. 2-6, the MOA intelligence summary: TAE JK-297 (Palma-Tenerife) reports two intense red lights at 22:05Z and diverts to Valencia (landing 22:45Z); a scramble from Albacete air base at 23:42Z finds the lights not appreciable; no radar contact by the aircraft or by Pegaso, but radio interference and some radar-warning lock-ons (p. 3). p. 9: telex of 12 Nov 1979; p. 12: Sector Aéreo de Cataluña letter of 13 Nov 1979; p. 13: Barcelona Control daily log, 10-11 Nov 1979. PDF (150 pp., about 36 MB): https://bibliotecavirtual.defensa.gob.es/BVMDefensa/exp_ovni/es/catalogo_imagenes/imagen.do?path=102238&posicion=1&registrardownload=1. Supplement (12 pp., declassified JEMA 6092, 20 Nov 1996): registro.do?id=38290.

Limitations

Foreign government record, CC BY 4.0 per the Biblioteca Virtual de Defensa (linked, not hosted). The file covers three events; the 28 Nov Madrid event takes much of the supplement. The Wikipedia-cited record URL no longer exists.

Link

https://bibliotecavirtual.defensa.gob.es/BVMDefensa/exp_ovni/es/consulta/registro.do?id=38287