Military1976

Canary Islands lights seen from Navy corvette and Gran Canaria

When

22 Jun 1976

Where

Canary Islands, Spain

Sources

1 public source

Crew of the Spanish Navy corvette Atrevida off Fuerteventura, then a doctor, a taxi driver and residents of Gran Canaria, reported a luminous object. A Spanish military file found no explanation; it was later attributed to a U.S. submarine-launched Poseidon missile test.