It's Vedra
On November 11, 1979, flight JK-297 of the TAE company took off from Palma de Mallorca bound for Tenerife with 109 passengers on board. Commander Francisco Javier Lerdo de Tejada, a veteran with 14 years of experience and a firm connoisseur of the mysteries of the air, was in command control. At first, everything seemed in order. until mid-flight, two blinding lights appeared near the plane . It was 11 pm on the 11th day of the 11th month. Coincidence?
"We have a red light signal about three miles from our position," warned the pilot, as can be seen in the following recording. About 200 meters in diameter, these flashes moved at a speed greater than that of any aircraft , which is why Lerdo de Tejada, faced with the rejection of the Barcelona airport control tower, was forced to initiate a emergency landing at Manises airport, in Valencia.
Within hours of the event, a Mirage F-1 of the Air Force took off from the base of Los Llanos, in Albacete, and tracked the area during two hours. In Manises, the neighbors claimed to have seen strange lights in the sky and in Sóller, in Mallorca, some witnesses even went out in search of a UFO photograph to sell to the newspapers.
During the now known as Manises case Levante entered a spiral of paranoia and bewilderment. Especially at a time like the late 1970s when UFO obsession was at its peak (Without going any further, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, by Steven Spielberg, was released a year earlier in Spain).
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But what is the actual origin of lights of the Manises case?
UFOs in LEVANTE
While the Manises case left all passengers and crew unharmed, other planes have not suffered the same fate. As collected by the Fourth Millennium team in a program broadcast in 2014 on the occasion of the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight that same year,** since 1948 up to 88 commercial planes and 1,150 people** have disappeared and nothing has been heard of since 1948.
Specifically, a large part of these disappearances have taken place in the two main “paranormal” hotspots on the planet : the famous Bermuda Triangle, in the Caribbean; and the one known as the Devil's Triangle, in the China Sea, although, according to the ufology expert Antonio Ribera, there would be up to twelve mysterious triangles on the planet.
Aerial view of the Bermuda Triangle
In addition to those already mentioned, we find the Deadly Triangle, in Argentine Patagonia , the Aleutian Islands Triangle , or even the alboran sea , in Spain, between Gibraltar, Cabo de Gata and northern Algeria. In this last, a Cartagena-Jerez flight suffered an accident in 1966 Only Lieutenant Pedro MacKinley survived, found dying on a beach while muttering "we were approaching a great sun."
Nevertheless, the origin of the Manises case belongs to an even more curious and poorly documented triangle: the so-called Triangle of Silence , formed at its ends by the Rock of Ifach in Calp, Alicante; the coast of Sóller, in the south of Mallorca and, especially, the islet of Es Vedrà, in Ibiza.
Ascent to the Rock of Ifach
IT'S NOT MYSTICISM, IT'S VORTEX
Located off the south coast of Ibiza (it is perfectly visible from places like Cala d'Hort), Es Vedra It is an islet barely 3.8 kilometers long and 382 meters high, converted into a nature reserve and an icon of the island of Pitiusa.
An enclave that accompanies many of the sunsets in Ibiza and whose mystical presence has been associated with numerous stories and legends over time . Already in ancient times, the locals narrated the tale of It is geant, a giant hidden under the waters of Es Vedrà that prevented the arrival of two brothers who came to the islet looking for fonoll marí, a plant capable of healing their sick father. One of the brothers threw the giant octopuses, his favorite food, with nailed hedgehogs to kill him and thus get the valuable medicine.
Oral traditions aside, in the 19th century Friar Francisco Palau i Quer spent long periods praying and dancing "among beings of light" in the bowels of the islet , just as he collected in his writings; and in the 1950s the idea was promoted that whoever reached the top would change their sex.
To this must be added a mysticism fed by fishermen who claim to see red lights some nights or divers who have perceived strange rhythms in the navigation of the fish, as well as unidentified objects that could come from old secret underwater bases.
In search of an explanation, others experts relate the surroundings of Es Vedrà to the so-called vortex . A matter of dispute among scientists and scholars, the vortex or vortex is a spiral-shaped circular flow structure that passes through the subsoil of the planet like a wave , "sneaking" to the outside in some places.
The defensive tower of Cabo juen (1756) in front of Es Vedrà and Es Vedranell
In fact, different vortex sites have been documented like the famous complex of stonehenge , in England, or the megalithic temples of malta , destinations adored by its ancient inhabitants as a place of contact with various gods.
As far as Spain is concerned, as the following vortex map shows, the two main places would be the Monastery of Montserrat , in Barcelona, in addition to a islet of Es Vedrà that, by separating from the rest of Ibiza, it would have accumulated part of the energy of the island and caused the "Manises case" that would reveal to the world the most UFO side of Levante.
An energy also present in all those triangles that continue to cast doubts and studies among experts and spiritual gurus. We would even dare to say that far from all the mystical paraphernalia, could be the culprit of the accident of the famous flight 815 of Oceanic Airlines of Lost.
Although unlike the famous 2004 series, no polar bears have yet been seen in Ibiza.