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Spain puts its declassified Air Force UFO files online

When: Oct 2016
Where: Madrid, Spain
Sources: 3 public sources

Spanish Air Force headquarters in Madrid, whose UFO files were put online in 2016 Bartomeu Caldentey Vives, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Spain's Ministry of Defence published 80 Air Force UFO case files, about 1,900 pages covering 1962 to 1995, in its online Biblioteca Virtual de Defensa. The files had been declassified from 1991 and earlier could only be read in person at the Air Force library in Madrid.

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OfficialExpedientes OVNI (collection home) (opens in a new tab)Ministerio de Defensa de Espana, Biblioteca Virtual de Defensa
PressDefensa desclasifica los expedientes ovni (opens in a new tab)Libertad Digital / 2016-10-23
PressEl Ministerio de Defensa saca a luz 80 expedientes clasificados sobre ovnis en Espana (opens in a new tab)The Objective / 2016-10-24

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