Place

Canary Islands, Spain

Name: Canary Islands, Spain
Address: Spain, ES

2 events here, 1976 to 1979, in date order.

22 Jun 1976Military
Canary Islands lights seen from Navy corvette and Gran Canaria
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.
5 Mar 1979Sightings
Spanish Air Force file on lights over the Canary Islands, 5 March 1979
The Spanish Air Force's air operations command compiled a 234-page intelligence file on strange phenomena reported over the Canary Islands on 5 March 1979. The file was declassified in 1995 and is published by the Defence Ministry.

Canary Islands lights seen from Navy corvette and Gran Canaria