Manises UFO Incident

The Manises UFO Incident took place on 11 November, 1979, forcing a commercial flight to make an emergency landing at the
Manises airport in Valencia, Spain.

Details of the flight

A TAE's (former airline) Supercaravelle was the aircraft involved in the incident. The flight JK-297 with 109 passengers had taken off from Salzburg (Austria) and had made a refuelling stop in Majorca before setting a course for Las Palmas.

Halfway through the flight, at about 23:00h, Pilot Francisco Javier Lerdo de Tejada and his crew noticed a set of red lights that were approaching the aircraft. These lights appeared to be on a collision course with the aircraft, startling the crew. The captain requested information about the inexplicable lights, but neither the military radar of Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid) nor the flight control center of Barcelona could provide any explanation for this phenomenon.

In order to avoid a possible collision, the captain changed the altitude of his airplane. However, the lights copied the plane's actions and stayed about half a kilometer away from the plane. As an evasive manoeuvre was impossible, the captain changed the flight course and made an emergency landing at the Manises airport. This was the first time in history that a commercial flight was forced to make an emergency landing because of a UFO, as it was violating elementary safety rules. The lights stopped the pursuit before the landing. Finally, three UFOs were detected by the radar, each one with an estimated diameter of 200 meters and were seen by several witnesses. One of the UFOs passed very close to the landing strip, and emergency lights were turned on because it was feared that this strange light was associated with an unregistered flight experiencing difficulty.

External links

* [http://youtube.com/watch?v=iCvB_c5j5cg Original communications of the Manises UFO Incident] Es icon
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hp_Q-1PdKs Testimony of Fernando Cámara, pilot of the Mirage F-1] Es icon
* [http://www.anomalia.org/manisen.htm Rational explanation of the phenomena, by the Anomaly Foundation] En icon