1976: UFO at Grand Canary Islands

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1976: UFO at Grand Canary Islands
Posted On: April 4, 2022

The year is 1976, the place, the Grand Canary Islands. The witnesses came upon a floating craft with large non-human beings visible inside of it.


On June 22nd, 1976 at about 21:27 hours, Doctor Padron Leon was traveling by taxi with Santiago del Pino, the son of a sick woman whom he was on his way to treat. It was a clear, starry night.


As they rounding a bend, the witnesses were startled to see a perfect sphere about sixty meters ahead of them, hovering a few meters off the ground. "We experienced a terrible feeling of cold," Dr. Leon said in his statement to the Air Ministry. "The chauffeur even started trembling, especially when the taxi's radio, which had been turned on, suddenly cut out." The sphere was transparent "like a gigantic soap bubble" with a diameter of a two-story house. Inside could be seen a platform, some panels, and two large beings.


"We were astonished at the great size of the beings, maybe 2 meters 80, or 3.00 meters," said Dr. Leon. "They were wearing black diver’s helmets and their clothing, which was very tight-fitting, was of a shade of red that I have never seen in my life. Their hands seemed to be enclosed in by cones, also black. The two beings were facing each other, moving their hands about, and operating levers. They were in profile to us."


What surprised the doctor in particular was the disproportionate size of the back part of their heads (perhaps due to the helmet?) and their relatively short legs. When the taxi-driver switched on his headlights the sphere began to rise. The witnesses then noticed that a bluish gas seemed to be coming out of a transparent tube, expanding the sphere until it was the size of a twenty-story building!


The beings, panels and platform, however, retained their original size. "We were terrified," said Doctor Leon, "and we turned the car round and went to some nearby houses, and went inside one of them. The people there told us that their television had just blacked out." Doctor Leon and the others remained in the house and continued watching the object through a window.


When the sphere had ceased expanding, the gas or fluid that was moving around inside suddenly became motionless, there was a high pitched whistle and the object shot off toward Tenerife, appearing to change shape to that of a spindle surrounded by a large white halo.


The object was also observed in multiple locations including Tenerife, La Palma, La Gomera, Grand Canary and by a ship at sea. Moreover, the UFO was witnessed by several hundred people, including both civilian and military personnel.


In commenting on this sighting, and others, including a report that night in the Canary Islands from a Spanish Navy vessel, the Air Force reporting judge stopped short of offering an extraterrestrial explanation, but concluded nonetheless: "If we study jointly the three reports issued up to now, we would have to face seriously the necessity of having to consider the possibility of accepting the hypothesis that a craft of unknown origin and driven by an energy likewise unknown is operating freely in the skies above the Canary Islands."


My Take: This is an extraordinary event. The only possible explanations are, a mass hoax or an Alien craft of some kind.


Resources: Above Top Secret, Timothy Good, 1988



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1976: UFO at Grand Canary Islands
Posted On: April 4, 2022

The year is 1976, the place, the Grand Canary Islands. The witnesses came upon a floating craft with large non-human beings visible inside of it.


On June 22nd, 1976 at about 21:27 hours, Doctor Padron Leon was traveling by taxi with Santiago del Pino, the son of a sick woman whom he was on his way to treat. It was a clear, starry night.


As they rounding a bend, the witnesses were startled to see a perfect sphere about sixty meters ahead of them, hovering a few meters off the ground. "We experienced a terrible feeling of cold," Dr. Leon said in his statement to the Air Ministry. "The chauffeur even started trembling, especially when the taxi's radio, which had been turned on, suddenly cut out." The sphere was transparent "like a gigantic soap bubble" with a diameter of a two-story house. Inside could be seen a platform, some panels, and two large beings.


"We were astonished at the great size of the beings, maybe 2 meters 80, or 3.00 meters," said Dr. Leon. "They were wearing black diver’s helmets and their clothing, which was very tight-fitting, was of a shade of red that I have never seen in my life. Their hands seemed to be enclosed in by cones, also black. The two beings were facing each other, moving their hands about, and operating levers. They were in profile to us."


What surprised the doctor in particular was the disproportionate size of the back part of their heads (perhaps due to the helmet?) and their relatively short legs. When the taxi-driver switched on his headlights the sphere began to rise. The witnesses then noticed that a bluish gas seemed to be coming out of a transparent tube, expanding the sphere until it was the size of a twenty-story building!


The beings, panels and platform, however, retained their original size. "We were terrified," said Doctor Leon, "and we turned the car round and went to some nearby houses, and went inside one of them. The people there told us that their television had just blacked out." Doctor Leon and the others remained in the house and continued watching the object through a window.


When the sphere had ceased expanding, the gas or fluid that was moving around inside suddenly became motionless, there was a high pitched whistle and the object shot off toward Tenerife, appearing to change shape to that of a spindle surrounded by a large white halo.


The object was also observed in multiple locations including Tenerife, La Palma, La Gomera, Grand Canary and by a ship at sea. Moreover, the UFO was witnessed by several hundred people, including both civilian and military personnel.


In commenting on this sighting, and others, including a report that night in the Canary Islands from a Spanish Navy vessel, the Air Force reporting judge stopped short of offering an extraterrestrial explanation, but concluded nonetheless: "If we study jointly the three reports issued up to now, we would have to face seriously the necessity of having to consider the possibility of accepting the hypothesis that a craft of unknown origin and driven by an energy likewise unknown is operating freely in the skies above the Canary Islands."


My Take: This is an extraordinary event. The only possible explanations are, a mass hoax or an Alien craft of some kind.


Resources: Above Top Secret, Timothy Good, 1988



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