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According to the text, the \"air defense radar\" of Cádiz detected, but the \"_eurofigther_ \" fighters stationed in Seville could not intercept them \"due to lack of fuel\". The text says that the Regiment of Anti-Aircraft Artillery of Madrid activated the anti-aircraft missiles and that their \"Colonel Chief\" has been arrested for it. Also, that the Air Command of Combate "gave the order to shoot them down", but the Government aborted that order. Supposedly, the fighters came to photograph bases and barracks Spanish military. The Digital Alert website published this content after that the text began to circulate on social networks. But it is misinformation without evidence. From the Ministry of Defense and the The Air Force assures **Maldita.es** that it is a hoax. Besides, We have not found references or sources of this supposed event, but it is They move different texts of the same content on social networks. We explain it to you. ## The Ministry of Defense and the Air Force say it is a hoax The Ministry of Defense assures Maldita.es that the text that is circulating "is a canard\". For its part, the Air Force points out that the text that is moving now "is a continuation of the first hoax\", in reference to the content that went viral a few weeks ago that two Moroccan F5 fighters had violated space Spanish airline and which we talk about in this article. ![\\"\\"](\\" We have also contacted the Moroccan Embassy in Spain, but in the At the time of publication of this article we have not yet received a response. ## There are no sources or references of the alleged event From Maldita.es we have not found any source or reference to the event that is described in the text neither in Spanish, nor in Arabic, nor in English, nor in French. For example, the text indicates that the \"Colonel Chief\" of the Regiment of Madrid Anti-Aircraft Artillery of the Army has been arrested for activate the anti-aircraft missiles, but we have not found any news of this alleged arrest. We have consulted the Army in this regard, but we have still not received a response at the end of this article. Furthermore, in one of the versions that is shared as a WhatsApp chain, links to this publication from the sports media **Sport**, but in this article does not state at any time that two Moroccan F16 fighters entered in Spanish airspace on August 14. ![\\"\\"](\\" The Sport publication is about the fact that the Armed Forces of the Kingdom of Morocco could receive "90 F-16V fighters of American origin from 2026\". They cite the Defensa.com website as the source of the information, which published an article about it on August 20. ## A few weeks ago similar content circulated and the Air Force assured that it was false A few weeks ago, similar content went viral stating that two F-5 fighters of the Moroccan army had violated Spanish airspace, arriving in the vicinity of Seville. In this article we tell you what We knew about it. The Air Force assured Maldita.es that the information given in the viral post was \"totally false\". This content cited **Defense Arab** as a source, a media specialized in military information, which tweeted on August 12 that two Moroccan fighters They had entered Spanish airspace. One day before, August 11, _**The Political Room**_, media specialized in international politics, had published the content on its website. As Yago Rodríguez, director of The Political Room, told Maldita.es, the The origin of the viral content was his article and not _Defense Arab_. But they deleted that publication after receiving comments with doubts about the event and Rodríguez he asked his sources. Not getting a \"convincing answer\", he decided permanently delete the content. In relation to this same alleged incident, Sonia Moreno, correspondent in Morocco published a tweet in which it stated that two Moroccan F16 fighters Cobra entered Spanish airspace. In response to a question from a user, specified that the event took place in the Alboran Sea. > The truth is that they were not F-5 light fighters, as was said in the links > deleted > > — Sonia Moreno (@sonietamb) August 14, 2020 According to what the journalist told Maldita.es, after publishing a tweet in which pointed out that The Political Room had deleted its content, a source (which from Maldita.es we do not know) contacted her to inform her about two F16 fighters that entered the Alboran Sea. WHATSAPP CHAIN ​​ANALYZED BY MALDITA.ES \"Two Moroccan F16s were forced to return to the strait. And their pilots They said they had gotten lost. They were intercepted in Ciudad Real by fighter jets F18 from Torrejón de Ardoz. The Madrid Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment, activated the anti-aircraft missiles and the Chief Colonel has been arrested for his activation. It happened last August 14. Today it was learned that two F16 fighters Moroccans, entered Spanish airspace and flew to Ciudad Real. The Cádiz air defense radar detected them when they entered through the narrow, but could not be intercepted by the eurofigthers stationed in Seville due to lack of fuel. It is suspected that the Moroccan planes, They photographed bases and barracks in Seville, that of the Legion of Almería, the Los Llanos Air Base in Albacete, and the Almagro helicopter base in Royal City. And nothing happens here. The Air Combat Command gave the order to tear them down, but the Government aborted the order. 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Today it was learned that two Moroccan F16 fighters entered Spanish airspace and flew to Ciudad Real it occurred on August 14