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UFO case file · UFO-5869

Santa Cruz de Tenerife entity encounter — November 18, 1982

CE3Canary Islands1982-11-18

Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands

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Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Santa Cruz de Tenerife entity encounter — November 18, 1982
Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Santa Cruz de Tenerife entity encounter — November 18, 1982

Case description

German student Andreas Schneider placed this experience at Santa Cruz de Tenerife on November 18, 1982. Late at night he reportedly watched a very bright disc manoeuvring above the area. He then described losing ordinary awareness and feeling that his “astral” body was taken into the object. This distinction matters: the account is explicitly an out-of-body or subjective transport narrative, rather than a continuous observation of someone physically entering a landed vehicle. Inside, Schneider said he encountered several short beings with unusually large heads and coarse, wrinkled grey skin. The expanded version describes two working at a control panel and another communicating with him. A glowing pillar stood in the centre of the room. He interpreted their communication as reassuring, felt a positive emotional atmosphere and said they identified their origin as a planet called Humo. Those statements are elements of his reported experience, not independently established information about another world. Albert Rosales’s published summary cites S.I.B. Betelgeuse and Ulrich Magin’s discussion in Cuadernos de Ufología, noting Magin’s negative assessment. No independent witness to the interior episode or authenticated physical transportation record is supplied. The plate therefore uses an explicitly labelled cutaway to bring the exterior disc, student and described beings together, while preserving the essential difference between a claimed astral experience and demonstrated abduction.

Recorded details

Craft description
Late at night Andreas Schneider sighted a maneuvering disc-shaped object over Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands. He lost consciousness and had an out-of-body experience, feeling that his "astral" body was taken into the object.
Entity description
Inside he encountered several short beings with wrinkly rough gray skin and huge heads.
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