Source: UFO RoundUp Volume 3, Number 39
Date: Sept 27, 1998
Editor: Joseph Trainor

Earlier this month Spain became the first nation in Europe to open its classified UFO files to researchers.

On September 7, 1998, the Fuerza Aerea d'Espana (Spanish Air Force--J.T.) made available 83 case files on UFO sightings in Spain, files which had previously been classified Top Secret.

According to the newspaper Voz de Galicia, "The truth is out there, in Madrid's General Air Force Library. It was learned yesterday that the Spanish Air Force has completed declassifying these official documents, which began in 1990. The shelves of the Madrid library hold the 83 'X-Files' previously classified as Top Secret. Twenty percent of these cases lack any logical explanation."

"One report, numbered as 891205, was opened in December 1989," in which eyewitnesses described "a lenticular UFO 'with a vast array of shining lights'" which overflew the towns of Sada and Castro in Spain's Galicia province, about 350 kilometers (210 miles) northwest of Madrid.

"At 6:40 p.m." on December 5, 1989, "members of the Benemrita (provincial police--J.T.) in Castro notified the Lavacolla Central Tower, which notified the army at the Aerial Vigilance Station at Noia (EVA 10). Both radars, civilian and military, obtained the object, which moved vertically."

At 8:40 p.m., three UFOs appeared on the EVA 10 radar set. Two vanished from the screen at 9:02 p.m. But the third signal persisted until 8 a.m. the following day, December 6, 1989.

The article also described a second case in Galicia "from the five pages of File 660402."

On April 2, 1966, "a corporal, a watchman and two sailors at Carreira watched a luminous object...It was to the left of Mount Campelo. The phenomenon lasted three-quarters of an hour. One of the witnesses took a snapshot of the UFO, which shows only a white spot against a black background."

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