UFO. Spain

From 19.30 hours onward on September 5, 1968, Madrid citizens saw a flying object that gave off light hovering over the capital for an ample period of time. It gathered a large crowd in the streets watching it with great curiosity. It was notorious for the photo that was published the following day on the very front cover of the distinguished ABC newspaper.
Among the documents that Belgium's SOBEPS donated to FOTOCAT Project recently, we were surprised to find this unknown snapshot taken during of the same incident, obtained by a staff photographer for the press agency BELGA, which shows the object in even more detail. Finally it was found out that this object was a French CNES stratospheric balloon, which landed near the town of Elche (Alicante) five days later. I am quite pleased to share this image with my readers.

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Date: September 5, 1968
Location: Madrid, Spain
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Summary: Triangle Shape Object Sighted Over Madrid: The third or fourth sighting of a triangle-shaped object moving through the skies over Madrid, Spain. took place on September 5th, during the evening rush hour, at 7:30 p.m. Various individuals reported their. impressions of the object, and several photos (see above) were taken, some through telescopic lenses. Although people on the ground who observed the object for approximately one hour generally described the object as triangular in shape, a pilot who attempted to intercept the thing claimed it was pyramid shaped and that there where three globes of bright Light at its base. This pilot climbed to 50,000 feet but had to abandon the chase when his fuel ran low, and the object was still a great distance above him. F-104 jets were dispatched to investigate but could not get to the altitude of the object. An official statement from the Madrid Observatory said that they did not know what the object was but that they assumed it was a satellite. This explanation was not accepted by the general public, however, because of the length of time that the object was visible.

Apparently in answer to the Madrid Observatory’s statement, a U. S. space tracking facility at Robledo, Spain stated that the object was definitely not an American satellite. The Spanish weather bureau added their denial that it was one of their meteorological balloons. As various authorities vainly tried to account for the strange object, a “respectable government source” suggested that it might have been a meteorological balloon which had drifted in from France. This theory collapsed, however, when French technicians said they had constantly tracked the balloon in question and that it had not drifted over Madrid. The Spanish Air Force announced during the furor over the “thing” that their modern, American-designed radar network had picked up the UFO, although only briefly, and this gave rise to much speculation about the reason why the vast U. S. Air Base at Torrejoon on the outskirts of Madrid did not register the object on their screens. At any rate, official announcements to the contrary, the object was still unidentified 21 days later, on the 26th of September and at this writing no solution has been found to the puzzle. At the beginning of this article e mentioned other “triangles” over Madrid in the past