A Cautionary Tale - 1976 Canary Islands Mass Witnessed 'Giant UFO'

[Kornee]

https://www.openminds.tv/canary-islands-...1976/38122
Wow - if this isn't a clincher that blows out of the water all those 'Venus, Jupiter, aircraft landing lights, swamp-gas etc. etc. skeptics nonsense, then what is?
Well...See last comment, by Ricardo Campo Pérez. Event was actually owing to a US Navy Poseidon missile launch. A highly unusual confluence of events.

BTW - evidently our very own James R makes an appearance as commenter! A favorite haunt, at least back then.

[Magical Realist]

The upper part began to climb in a spiral, rapid and irregular, and finally vanished. None of these movements affected the initial circular halo in any way, which remained just the same the whole time, its glow lighting up parts of the land and the ocean, from which we could deduce that the phenomenon was not very far away from us, but was close.

A bit reminiscent of this missile sighting in Norway a few years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXA8WmFnp8s

[Kornee]

Yeah I well remember the initial media frenzy at the time. Took a few days for the truth to emerge - a failed Russian missile test.
A work colleague at the time was convinced it was a portal opening from/into 'another dimension'. Yes - but only of the imagination.