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Canary Islands Close Encounter Wave

The Canary Islands close encounter wave refers to a series of dramatic UFO reports centered on the Spanish Canary Islands in the 1970s, especially the famous 22 June 1976 mass sighting and related military-observed events. The wave became one of Spain’s best-known UFO clusters because it combined hundreds of witnesses, sea-and-air observations, declassified official files, and later arguments that at least some of the spectacular displays were caused by missile launches rather than alien craft.