Just heard about this case. June 22, 1976. Multiple witnesses told the same story, including a doctor who was out making a house call- while driving came upon a sphere in which sat two large humanoid figures between 8 and 10 feet tall. Having reached his destination, when this object started to rise, the family of his patient and a neighbor watched the object grow in size while the figures remained the same size.
here's a sneak peak at my Canary Island wave of 1979 from the forthcoming,
Stalking the Herd:
Canary in a Coal Mine?
The following cases unfolded over the spring, summer and fall of 1979 and the actual details are little known outside of the “mute” investigator community. Islands around the world have reports outbreaks of unexplained animal deaths. The Canary Islands are a good example. These 13 islands, collectively called the Canary Islands, are Spanish possessions located off the northwest coast of Africa. The largest of the islands are Tenerife, Gran Canaria (Grand Canary) and Fuerteventura. The Canaries feature a mild climate and rugged, mountainous terrain. World attention was focused on the Canaries when a major airline crash-disaster occurred on the runway at Tenerife.
A spectacular sighting event had occurred the night of June 22, 1976, when the Spanish Navy corvette Atrevida, anchored several miles off Punta Lantailla, Fuerteventura Island, observed a "bright yellow light traveling above the horizon." The object had no radar signature. The light became a 'luminous' rotating beam and then a glowing halo grew around the object. The halo lasted for some time and its light could be seen by witnesses aboard ship reflecting off the water—illuminating the shoreline. By the conclusion of the sighting event, the light had been observed by the entire ship's complement. Meanwhile, Doctor Francisco Padron Leon was in a taxi outside of the town of Guia headed to see a patient in nearby Las Rosas, Gran Canaria. While traveling in the cab, at 9:30, he and the driver witnessed a glowing blue sphere that appeared to be hovering close to the ground in front of the vehicle. Leon described the spherical object as having a radius of approximately 100' and being "sufficiently transparent for him to make out the stars in the night sky beyond." He also testified to Spanish Air Force investigators that he could see two figures inside working at consoles that were mounted on a metal platform occupying the lower third of the sphere. He said they dressed in red. The two of them witnessed the sphere fill up with "bluish smoke" from inside the sphere, which appeared to expand the sphere to the size of approximately a 20 story building. The huge object then rose into the air and flew off in the direction of Tenerife. The descriptions of the growing object are unique and few sighting claims have ever described this exaggerated growth effect. No known unexplained animal deaths were reported around the time of the ’76 sighting event.
Most of the following unexplained animal incidents occurred on the island of Tenerife, but 1979 also featured strange, perplexing events that seemed to emerge all over the Canaries. We will be primarily concerned with the strange animal deaths that occurred, but as you will see, other possibly related events i.e., UFO and craft sightings may be connected with the unexplained animal deaths
Another spectacular UFO sighting kicked off the events of ’79 and the light were visible from at least three of the larger islands—Grand Canary, Tenerife and Gomera was observed by hundreds of witnesses on March 5, 1979 at about 8:00PM. Descriptions varied depending on the witnesses’ vantage point, but observations included descriptions of the light/object such as “cylindrical,” “pyramid-shaped” or “cup-shaped” plus some witnesses mentioned the light left a “definite, V-shaped wake.” Motorists complained of headlights and engines failing as the object appeared. According to the National Enquirer of Lantana, Florida (7-24-79), the Spanish government launched a “top secret” investigation into the incident. Then, about seven weeks later the unexplained animal deaths began on the nights of April 30-May 1 and May 2-3 on the island of Tenerife, near the town of Taco.
Six trained, ferocious German shepherd guard dogs were enclosed on the grounds of a Lactory. On two occasions, on the morning of [May] 1st and 3rd, one of the dogs was found dead outside their enclosure. There were no tracks, no evidence of struggle and no sign of bleeding. However, each dog had a hole in its chest, through which it was thought the heart and lungs had been removed. The Tenerife Department of Health Services was not interested in investigating, as the killings were considered to be the work of “human hands.” The speculation was that a “religious cult” might have sought the heart and blood for use in rituals. Later in the first half of May, near Icod (still in the Taco area), the carcasses of two goats were discovered. According to the account in the newspaper Diario De Avisos, both goats were beheaded and exsanguinated. Then, during the same period of time, in the Guamasa area, a hog was discovered disfigured with its liver “seeming in very bad state” and the carcass was reportedly missing some “viscera.” Police said that the hog was in a condition similar to the dogs at Taco. Again there was no sign of blood. Then, near Garachico, beheaded carcasses of rabbits and goats were discovered. A veterinarian at Los Silos thought dogs might have been responsible and he doubted that the beheadings were related to the Taco killings. Back on Tenerife, on a ranch at Puerto de la Cruz, a few banana trees were found broken, reportedly as though something had damaged them from the air.9
The staff of Diario De Avisos, ascertained that the Guardia Civil (police) conducted “intensive investigations” into the animal killings, but downplayed the reports to reassure the public and “diminish the importance of the incidents.” And the newspaper La Provincia sumerized these first reports by stating:: “the circumstances which surround these strange happenings (extraction of organs from the bodies, removal of blood, lack of signs of violence) could indicate that the deaths were caused by something well prepared and with scientific interest.” La Provincia also reported that in early-to-mid May reports of a purple rainfall on the town of Estrasburgo (on Grand Canary Island) and in February a blue rain had been reported in Lyon. How colorful! —END OF EXCERPT——