Spain Barajas Airport UAP Approach 1990

On November 11, 1990, an Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crew on final approach to Madrid Barajas Airport reported a metallic disc-shaped object in the approach corridor at 3,000 feet. Madrid Barajas approach control tracked an unidentified radar return in the same position for approximately 9 minutes before the contact departed at high speed to the east. The crew filed a formal incident report with the Spanish civil aviation authority (DGAC). The Spanish Air Force's CLAEX experimental center was notified. In 1993, the Spanish Ministry of Defence conducted a partial declassification of its UAP files — one of the first European government declassification actions — and released a summary of the Barajas case along with other Spanish Air Force encounters. The Barajas case is notable as one of the few civil aviation UAP encounters to be officially acknowledged by a European government through declassification, alongside the 1977 Canary Islands military case.