By Tim Binnall
A pilot with the Spanish Air Force recently shared an intriguing account of an incident wherein fighter jets were scrambled to intercept a UFO. The curious event reportedly took place sometime last year and came to light this past Sunday by way of a Spanish journalist who published a letter that he received from the unnamed witness. Indicating that the incident occurred at the Morón Air Base near the city of Seville, the pilot explained that "our squadron was on operational alert when we received a detection signal from an unidentified flying object."
In response to the presence of the UFO in the airspace near the base, "the scramble protocol was immediately activated" and the squadron of Eurofighter jets quickly took flight in search of the mysterious aerial interloper. "Upon arriving in the designated area," the pilot recalled, "we observed an unidentified flying object that exhibited erratic behavior and did not respond to standard identification signals." When they tried to approach the mysterious object, he wrote, "the UFO demonstrated a maneuvering capability that defied the capabilities of any known conventional aircraft, and eventually quickly disappeared from our sight at a speed that far exceeded any known operating parameter."
Upon their return to the air base, the squadron attempted to decipher what it was that they had just encountered, however a "thorough process of analysis of the data collected during the mission" left them with no answers as to the "nature or origin of that UFO." Insisting on the veracity of his account, the pilot astutely observed that the incident "raises significant questions about the security and defense of our airspace," which is presumably why he came forward with the fantastic tale. That said, despite his story generating headlines in the country, there has been no official response from the Spanish government regarding the puzzling incident said to have taken place last year.