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This section contains descriptions of unexplained facts provided by eyewitnesses or published in the media, as well as the results of their analysis by the group.

UFO. Spain

ID	#1564406679
Added	Mon, 29/07/2019
Author	July N.
Sources	kp.ru
Phenomena	UFO
Status	Hypothesis

Initial data

Initial information from sources or from an eyewitness

Incident date:

02.01.1975 22:55

Location:

полигон ВВС Барденас Реалес

Spain

January 2, 1975, unidentified objects visited the site of the air force Bardenas Reales. 22:55 the soldier was on duty near the main tower, noticed at ground level, a fixed red light. He called the corporal, who came accompanied by three soldiers. After a few minutes, this "fire" rose up and slowly flew in the direction of the support towers. Having reached it, the UFO changed direction of flight, while increasing the brightness and speed, and then disappeared from sight.

At 23:10 corporal reported by phone to the Desk Sergeant about seeing. The Sergeant went outside and through the binoculars I saw an object similar to the "inverted Cup" with white and yellow pulsating lights at the top and bottom. UFO "the size of a large truck" was at the same place as the first object in the early observations. The lights illuminated the surrounding landscape within a radius of hundreds of meters.

23:25 the object took off, heading for the auxiliary tower. Having made the same maneuver, the UFO disappeared from sight after 15 minutes. Five soldiers near the main tower also saw the rise and maneuvers of the object.

The observation did not go unnoticed by journalists. January 5, 1975, in Madrid newspaper ABC published an article "UFO over ground Bardenas Reales". It said that this is not the first observation of the forbidden territory. In 1973, after appearing on the sky "strange glowing object" there is a crashed military plane. Fortunately, the pilot and Navigator managed to jump with parachutes. Reporters talked to "Lieutenant Campos, who is on the ground and saw a UFO with my own eyes", but he refused to give details, "as the incident is classified and is now being investigated by authorities."

UFO in the night saw not only military, but also inhabitants of the nearby town of Tudela. The air force of Spain had to invent an "explanation" to calm the inflaming of passion.

"It's just an optical effect caused by a lunar halo," was released by military press release.

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Hypotheses

List of versions containing features matching the eyewitness descriptions or material evidence

Halo

Halo usually appears around the Sun or moon, sometimes around other powerful light sources such as street lights. There are many types of halos, but they are mostly caused by ice crystals in Cirrus clouds at a height of 5-10 km in the upper troposphere. The form of the observed halo depends on the shape and arrangement of crystals. Reflected and refracted by the ice crystals, the light often turns into a spectrum, which makes halo look like a rainbow, but a halo in low light has a low chroma, which is associated with the peculiarities of twilight vision.