Flying Saucer Review December 1986 [antikvár]

The fact that, both in the USA and here, there are numerous sadists and perverts around, and that their numbers are constantly swelhng, still does not begin to explain this perfectly mind-boggling thing about the children.This, and all the other matters herein touched upon, are subjects upon which we can reflect. (It will be wise to keep to oneself any spectacular conclusions that are reached).ENORMOUS UFO DETECTED VISUALLY AND ALSO BY RADAR OVER BARCELONA REGION OF N.E. SPAIN ON NIGHT OF NOVEMBER 29/30,1985.J.P. Crivillén (c.e.i., Barcelona)(Translation from Spanish) from cuadernos de ufologia iv, 15 (March 1986.)Sr. Joan Plana Crivillén is a Catalan and, for the benefit of those who are unfamiliar with the Catalan language, we should perhaps explain that Joan is not a female name, as It Is with us, but = John {Juan in Castillan Spanish). editorThis sighting started at about 9.30 p.m. on Friday, November 29, 1985, when a sergeant and a constable of the municipal police noticed a big light stationary in the sky over Tarrasa, a small town lying some 33 kms. to the north of Barcelona.Numerous other local residents also reported the phenomenon to the authorities. Two men at Sant Quirze del Valles observed the light with binoculars and stated that, while to the naked eye it seemed merely like a powerful bluish-white light, with binoculars they had a clear view of an elongated body intensely luminous in its central part and considerably less so at the two ends. Some folk thought at the time that it was a star or maybe Halley's Comet, and so they looked for it again in the same quarter of the sky at the same time next evening, but there was no sign of it.The Tarrasa Police Headquarters telephoned to the Police (Guardia Urbana) of Barcelona and reported the affair, and at about 10.30pm the latter likewise informed the Air Traffic Control Centre at Barcelona Airport. The traffic controllers on duty were at first unable to pick up anything on their own radarscopes, so they switched off their MTI gear (used for cancelling out fixed echoes). On their radarscopes they then found that they had a fixed echo somewhat north of Tarrasa. In form it was like an extensive blob and it had some unusual features. Its length was estimated at over 200 metres, but as it was not moving, they felt that it might perhaps be caused by the mountainous configuration of the area (San Lorenzo- La Mola Mountains, altitude 1,000 metres).The radar employed in picking up this blob was an ASR-7 of the so-called GCA primary approximation type, located on the runways of the Barcelona Airport This is what is known in Spanish as a "TAR" radar (terminal area radar) working in ultra-high frequencies, and with a maximum range of some 110 kms. It merely gives the distance of a target-echo, and its direction, but being of plane type, it is unable to give altitudes. In the region in question this particular radar is employed to pick up aircraft flying at between 600 metres and 12,000 metres.Upon receipt of the alert, the Barcelona Police at once informed the TV-3 television station (Independent Catalan Television) who at once despatched a team to Tarrasa. Arriving there, they were joined by units of the Tarrasa Police, and arranged to take video-film (BETA CAM) of the powerful light stationary over the town, its apparent size about three or four times that of a normal star. (The TV team also tried to film some of the stars for purposes of comparison, but were unsuccessful, their camera being unable to register the much fainter luminosity of the stars).In the meantime, Barcelona Air Traffic Control directed several commercial aircraft towards the Saba-dell-Tarrasa region. These were probably a DC-9, ffight 13-799; a Boeing-727, flight IB-899; and a DC-9, flight IB-901, all belonging to the Iberia Air Lines and all three bound for Madrid from Barcelona.The pilots of all three of these aircraft reported that they could see absolutely nothing in the area of sky indicated. The weather conditions at the time, as shown by the Traffic Control's own instruments and by the