Early tomorrow morning I head out to the Dark 30 Tour at Asheville, North Carolina, where I’ll be lecturing on UFOs, cryptozoology and Hollywood scandal. As a result, I’ll be offline while away, and so I have written a number of posts today that are timed to appear automatically while I’m away.

I’ll be back late monday night of next week and so will attend to any comments that the posts may have generated next tuesday.

And for today, we have another “From the Archives” post from my old files:

1966 saw an unusual event occur at Pasajes, Northern Spain that caught the attention of the British Ministry of Defense. From a radio officer attached to the S.S. Patrick M. Rotterdam, came the following, in a letter dated 27 April, 1966:

“Perhaps the following will be of some interest to you or Jodrell Bank. Whilst at Anchor at Pasajes, North Spain on 22 April at 2100 Bst in a very clear sky, one of the crew noticed a bright patch in the sky and drew my attention to it. It appeared stationary and squarish, the area being about 4 times the size of a full moon. Several of the crew watched, being interested and of course at anchor, there is very little to do. The patch elongated and became brighter and to our amazement a complete ring, similar to pictures of flying saucers, bright and distinct with dark centre. For several minutes this object remained visible then returned to a patch, receding elongated again. Then it branched out to form a letter M. When the ring was clear it was about [the] same size as a full moon. We know it was not the moon because the moon was in another quadrant and lying on back at [the] same time. The patch receded away into distance. I can assure you none of us were drunk.”

In this particular case, a conventional explanation seems unlikely. Fortunately for the MoD, as the sighting had occurred outside of the confines of the United Kingdom, it was deemed that no investigation was necessary. The case was closed.

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2 Comments to “From the UFO Archives (Part 4)”

1. red pill junkie Says:
   September 26th, 2007 at 12:17 pm

   Now tis particular case interests me because a)it happened in Spain, and b)it happened in a particular age when there was a lot of buzz in that country related to the so called UMMO cases.

   I’m reading a book by one of my favorite UFO authors of all time: Juan José Benítez’ >”El hombre que susurraba a los ummitas”

2. misteranderson Says:
   September 26th, 2007 at 7:21 pm

   Seems more anomalous than ET…..

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