Thanks to the declassification of confidential Spanish Air Force documents, we now know that Motril had an official UFO sighting in 1979.

The following report was included in a TV programme, Cuarto Milenio, on national TV a few days ago, on which a retired Spanish Air Force Colonel was interviewed about the incident.

On November the 17th, a fighter aircraft had been scrambled out of Albacete to intercept an unidentified flying object; a triangle of lights. When he reached the area he found nothing, but then started to hear a child-like voice over his UHF receiver on channel 11 saying, “Hello, how are you, hello, hello,” and laughing.

He changed frequency but continued to receive the same signal with the same clarity and intensity, which lasted about 30 seconds longer.

As for the lights, the pilot did spot them and set course to intercept, yet even travelling at just under the speed of sound, he was unable to close the distance.

The weather at the time “was normal for the anticyclone that was over the Iberian Peninsular; clear skies and good visibility.”

The Spanish Air Force began to declassify all UFO reports in the early 1990’s, starting with the first in 1962 over San Javier in Murcia, to the last one in 1995 over Morón in the province of Sevilla.

Finally, just over two years after this Motril incident and just a month apart, two aliens turned up in Salobreña… The Ed and the Publisher.

(News: Motril, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)