D a y l i g h
t d i s c p h o t o g r a p h e
d a t B e n i d o r m
, S p a i n
The picture below surfaced in the seventies and was published in
several UFO books and journals.
The photographer, a German tourist by the name of Gunther "Fensky"
WILDEMANN, claims he spotted this unidentified disc-shaped object in the
early evening of November 23, 1966. According to the photographer, the
spinning disc remained stationary for about 15 minutes before it took off
at great speed in the direction of the setting sun.
Little more is
known about this picture, except that it was taken at Benidorm, a popular
holiday resort near the city of Alicante in eastern Spain.
- DELVAL, Pierre, Le grand
livre des Objets Volants Non Identifiés, Editions De Vecchi, Paris,
1976.
- SPEIGEL, Lee, "First Encounter"
in OMNI, April 1979.
- DARNAUDE, Ignacio ignaciodarnaude.galeon.com (in Spanish)
- BEAU, Jérôme http://www.rr0.org/data/1966/index.html (in French)
In reality the picture taken by Mr. WILDEMANN shows a solitary lenticular cloud. The
UFO story is false. Lenticular clouds are very common in the eastern and
southern coastal areas of Spain. They are regularly photographed by
tourists because of the sometimes striking resemblance these clouds bear
to "flying saucers".
This is not a UFO, but a cloud.
- SCHNEIDER, Adolf & MALTHANER, Hubert, UFO-fotoboek, Ank-Hermes, Deventer,
1977, p. 237
- VAN OVERMEIRE, Godelieve
"Chronologie OVNI" (in French)
