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In 1974, in Spain, there were numerous reports about craft and beings in the local newspapers. In 1976, Spanish journalist Juan Benitez received 300 pages of such reports and interviewed Spanish General Carlos Castro Cavero who gave him this personal statement:
“I believe that UFOs are spaceships or extraterrestrial craft... The nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon. There is an international exchange of data. Maybe when this group of nations acquires more precise and definite information, it will be possible to release the news to the world.”
(“Creo que los OVNIs son naves espaciales o naves extraterrestres... Las naciones del mundo estan actualmente trabajando juntas en la investigacion del fenomeno OVNI. Hay un intercambio internacional de informacion. Quiza cuando este grupo de naciones adquiera informacion mas precisa y definitiva, sera posible publicar las nuevas al mundo.”)
During the same interview, the General described his own daytime UFO sighting at his ranch near Zaragoza, Spain:
“I myself have observed one for more than an hour... It was an extremely bright object, which remained stationary there for that length of time and then shot off towards Egea de los Caballeros, covering the distance of twenty kilometers in less than two seconds. No human device is capable of such a speed.”
He added that the Spanish Air Ministry investigated UFO cases, including instances in which pilots had flown alongside UFOs, but when they tried to get closer, the UFOs moved away at fantastic speeds. The investigations were kept confidential at the time, so skeptics have claimed that he was probably inventing that the Spanish Air Ministry studied UFO sightings in secret; but in 1992 the Spanish Air Force finally began to systematically declassify its UFO files, which proved that there were official investigation of UFO reports in the Spanish military.
