Manises UFO incident
The Manises UFO incident took place on 11 November 1979, during which an alleged unidentified flying object forced a commercial flight of the Spanish company Transportes Aéreos Españoles, with 109 passengers, to make an emergency landing at the Manises Airport in Valencia, Spain, when they were flying over Ibiza. After the emergency landing, a Spanish Air Force Dassault Mirage F1 took off from Los Llanos Air Base in order to intercept the mysterious object. Journalist and author Javier Cavanilles has called it "the most famous UFO case in Spain".
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