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The Spanish UFO

A Spanish Caravelle jet on a charter flight from Salzburg to the Canary Islands was forced to make an emergency landing in Valencia.

“What I saw,”said the pilot of the plane, Captain Javier Lerdo Tejada, “was an unidentified flying object”.

The aircraft was flying 100 German and Austrian tourists to Tenerife with a refuelling stop at Palma, Majorca, when Captain Tejada saw the object.

“I have never known such danger,” Captain Tejada said. “Whatever the objects were, they were certainly interested in my piece of metal. I saw two very strong red lights. I had never seen anything like it before. They moved very fast and kept together both vertically and horizontally and came closer. They were with my plane for 10 minutes or more.”

“I first saw them when they were at 23,000ft. They appeared to be 15 miles away. At 28,000ft they were half a mile away and at 29,000ft they were on top of me on a collision course. “

“I radioed Barcelona control but they could see nothing on their scanner. Then I radioed the Air Force in Madrid, which is part of Spain’s early warning system and uses more sophisticated equipment. They picked up the objects when they were very close to land.”

“I then took emergency procedure, turning sharply away from the objects which were clearly spotted by Madrid. The objects followed me down, 12,000 feet in 30 seconds, I have never heard of a plane capable of doing that. When I was I5 miles outside Valencia they disappeared.”

“A Mirage interceptor was sent up from the air base at Albacete. What they saw is a military secret. I spoke to the pilot later and he confirmed what I had. seen.”

Captain Tejada is an experienced pilot. He served with the Spanish Air Force for six years, and has been a commercial pilot for the past nine years.