The Ministry of Defense has digitally published 80 declassified reports with 1,900 pages of 'UFO Files' throughout Spain, among which Lanzarote also appears. Specifically, on this island there is a sighting in 1985, according to the Central Library of the Air Force (BCEA).
The event took place in the sky of the municipality of Yaiza, in Playa Blanca, on February 12. At approximately 9:10 p.m., the agents of the Municipal Police alerted the Control Tower of the Lanzarote Airport about the "sighting of an unidentified luminous object", as stated in the report. Subsequently, the commander of a flight heading from Arrecife to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, confirmed that said object "followed the flight between 3000' and 10,000 feet", and then disappeared.
Only two days after this sighting, the first "Reporting Judge and compiler of everything concerning the possible appearance of a UFO on the Island" was appointed. However, in the file held by the Air Operations Command (MOA), there was no report prepared on the sighting, although the Colonel confirmed that he did carry it out.
Finally, the Chief of the General Staff, in 1992, requested the documentation and everything related to UFOs held by the different Commands was compiled by the Air Force General Staff, and it was decided to keep the Lanzarote file as declassified material, that is, to lower its classification level with the intention of making these documents available to the public, which today come to light thanks to their digitization and availability by the Ministry of Defense.
An Officer of the ship sighted a UFO in Christmas 1985
The documents made public by Defense also show a second sighting at the end of December of that same year. This time it was on a ship of the Transmediterránea Company "Manuel Soto", which was traveling from Gran Canaria to Arrecife, from which the Officer himself observed "what he initially identifies as the star ANTARES". Fifteen minutes later, he saw "an approximate silhouette of the object, not resembling any of the usual airplanes or helicopters":
The strange object, as indicated in the description of the file, "has a very intense central white light, another red light close to the previous one somewhat weaker and another white light more separated". And in this case, it was confirmed by three more people: the second officer, the helmsman and the deck guard. The following year, the Chief of the General Staff communicated "the negative results of his investigation regarding the observation of UFOs", also declassifying the file.
The Island of Lanzarote was not a pioneer in feeling the presence of a UFO since the Virtual Library of the Ministry of Defense includes a report dated in Ferrol in 1966 and another, in the Murcian town of San Javier, from 1962.
