CATALOG OF UFO CASES
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IN SEVILLE (1960–1980)
INVESTIGATED IN UMBRETE
BY MANUEL OSUNA
LLORENTE
36. August 2. 1976. 20 h.
Gerena (Seville). Together with many people we were able to observe an object in the shape of a top, shiny, immobile in the sky. We used binoculars and observed two points, also luminous, that entered and left in angular maneuvers, and so on for an hour and a half. As the sun went down they lost their brilliance. The spinning top was seen in many other places, echoing the press in Huelva and Badajoz. During the early morning of that day, some colleagues who were making observations in Olivares could see small points of light that made movements at right angles. (J. Mateos, M. Filpo)
37. August 14. 1976. 5 h.
Gerena (Seville). Another event very similar to the previous one took place. The top had on this occasion two powerful side flashes and a certain transparency in its central part. The light spots were not observed. He was motionless for about five hours. After about thirty minutes it began a slow movement, towards the west, disappearing. (J. Mateos, M. Filpo)
74. August. 1976. 2 h.
Gerena (Seville). Juan Castillo Ortiz, a tractor driver, was doing his work when he observed a bright light in the sky moving towards where he was. It was a round, silent object, the size of a full moon and with many colored lights: red, yellow, etc., which gave the impression of turning, producing great luminosity. He cut the engine, turned off the lights, and jumped to hide in a nearby sewer. Shortly after, the object already disappeared, it resumed its work, but it appeared again and went back to where it was. And again he was forced to perform the concealment maneuvers already described. (J. Mateos, M. Filpo)
30. July or August. 1976. night.
Cadiz. The daughter of a colonel woke up suddenly in anguish, extremely upset, without knowing why. Something attracted him to the window and he saw a huge thing with many lights: “it was like a large power station, or like a fair, with many irons, in the middle there were people moving and acting” He went to the bathroom, washed his face and drank. She again she went to the window a little more awake and again she contemplated the structure .. she went back to bed and fell asleep. The next morning she looked out and only contemplated a lot that was beginning to be built. That same morning she learned that all over Cádiz there was talk of the UFO that had landed at dawn and the power cut. Apparently the press published the event. (I. Darnaude)
21. November 10, 1976. 3 h. 30 m. Burguillos (Seville). Antonio Alfonso Casado was heading in his truck to the aforementioned town when he was 3 km away. he noticed a light coming from his left side. From the first moment he knew it was not an airplane. He passed in front of him, positioning himself behind and maintaining a chase for about 6 km., Experiencing real terror. He was able to contemplate it motionless, very bright, over the town of Burguillos and observed that it was a saucer about 6 meters in diameter by 2.5 meters high, whose lower part was bluish, of various general tones, turning the whole. The upper boss had windows inside which he observed an orange light. When he was close to him he heard a metallic hiss. He also noticed that it increased and decreased in size during the various viewing positions. (J. Mateos, M. Filpo)
25. November 26. 23 h. 30 m. (unknown year, 1976 possible)
Gerena (Seville). Antonia Díaz Ramos, married to Manuel Valderas Fuentes, was about to leave the kitchen in order when she saw through the window that overlooks the patio a glare that left her blinded, accompanied by a screeching sound. She then spotted her at about 4 m. from where a rare ovoid artifact was found, suspended one meter from the ground, measuring approximately 2 m. long by 1 m. Wide. Its contours gave off a strong, sparkling red color, and in the center it had a transparent white coloration. Despite the daze and fear, she thought she observed two black lumps inside her, like two heads fitted with helmets. It disappeared evolving in different directions. She then she got rid of a strange attraction and warned the family. Her husband, skeptical, said that something extraordinary she must have seen when she found her so upset. The case was publicized in the press. (J. Ortiz, J. Mateos)
26. 6 h .. (unknown year, 1976 possible)
Aznalcóllar (Seville). José Hato Rodríguez and a colleague were on their way to work. About 3 km. from the town they observed four powerful silver lights, separated by about 20 meters, oriented in a straight line and located on the skirt of a hill that dominates the “El Gran Poder” farm, about 500 meters to the right of the road. Accustomed to passing through the place, they had never observed anything abnormal, and they ruled out all the logical possibilities: tractors, machinery and houses. They were not fixed, it seemed that they were being followed, it was something very strange, until they stopped seeing them from several kilometers away. In the place there is a very important mine. In the same area, on the Agrio river bridge, a national teacher saw a red disk descend at high speed at around 0 o’clock, drift into some olive trees, and, shortly before hitting the ground, completely extinguish. (J. Ortiz)
12. January 11. 1977. 23 h. 15 m.
Guillena (Seville) Julián García Barroso, his wife and his mother-in-law were at the door of his house and they observed in the direction of Las Pajanosas a red ball, the size of a full moon, suspended, without movement, about 2 km. It began to descend slowly until, obliquely, at an angle of 45º, it began a climb to continue horizontally and, again, change its trajectory into a vertical descent. Almost at ground level they lost sight of her. The sighting lasted about 30 minutes. (A. Moya)
68. March 1977. 11pm. 30 m.
Between Gerena and El Garrobo (Seville). José Chávez Jiménez, a welder, and another colleague were hunting, along with other friends, near a farmhouse called “La mesa de las vacas”, in a valley. José noticed a star that was slowly moving towards his position, getting bigger and bigger. At the mentioned time he had it on top of him and he could see that it was a round object, three times larger than a full moon, with a spotlight in the center and around which there were a large number of small lights: red, green and red other colors, fixed, without intermittence, did not illuminate. The utter silence struck him. However, the farmhouse dogs were barking furiously. Around 24 hours they heard the deafening noise of two military jets that were approaching the place at low altitude. He looked at the object, saw that it shifted position on edge, and with tremendous speed it disappeared. The reactors followed him but he soon saw them return the way they had come. (J. Mateos, A. Moya, M. Filpo. I. Alonso)
45. May 1. 1977. Sunset.
Rociana del Condado (Huelva) Aurelio González del Castillo, a farmer, was finishing his work day at the “El Tinajón” farm and was riding his motorcycle to take the road from Bollullos to Rociana when he saw an object the size of a bus that was getting 20 meters above your head. He wanted to accelerate but the motorcycle stopped and, full of fear, he ran towards a nearby house from where he could observe that the object remained immobile in the air, until it slowly moved towards some burning bushes. It consisted of two plates joined by a central area, provided with windows that gave off a strong orange light that was projected intensely to the outside, as if the interior were incandescent. The bottom and top rotated, not the one with the windows. The headlight bulb burned out and the motorcycle had an irregular operation from that day on (EL CORREO. Juan Pérez Carrasco).
70. June 9, 1977. 11pm. 30 m.
El Garrobo (Seville). Manuel Bermúdez Techt, a plumber, was driving his car on the road from Gerena to the aforementioned town. It was a dark night, with some dark clouds. He suddenly saw ahead, about 200 meters, a bright orange rectangle, with the appearance of a TV screen, which was motionless in the center of the road, suspended about two meters from the ground. He soon arrived at his chalet, got out and saw how it rose slowly, the color orange changed to yellow and then it was white, disappearing from view above the clouds. He calculates the observation time at about seven minutes. He did not notice anything unusual in the car, nor in his person. (J. Mateos)
4. August 3, 1977. 7pm. 30 m.
Village La Escalada. Almonaster la Real (Huelva). Ceferina Vargas Martín, 20 years old, single, was going to visit her grandmother, who lives in a nearby village, walking along paths bordered by a stream. She suddenly she received a reflection in her eyes from the stream. She believed that it was some mirror or piece of glass located on the shore. An instinctive impulse made her speed up her walk but she felt something slow her down. After traveling about 20 meters she received another flash, white, the size of a bicycle headlight, very annoying. She seized with nervousness she felt her strength fail him. When the spotlight went out, she observed two figures about 4 meters away, both standing, on the path. One of them was a very tall woman, about 2 meters; long, waist-length, platinum-colored hair; with large eyes and arched eyebrows; no nose or only two orifices; in her mouth he made out a line that moved, without opening, giving the impression of wanting to speak while she gestured with her arms. She wore a long dark green tunic, sparkling, as if made of small lights with a round top opening that reached from shoulder to shoulder, with wide sleeves. She also did not get to observe if she had feet. Her chest was flat. The man had the same features and stood motionless. His hair was short and somewhat tousled; he wore a narrower tunic that reached his knees; light brown, with sparkles; her height was slightly lower, 1.70 meters. Ceferina described the faces as repellent, lemon yellow. Stunned, she lost consciousness shortly after sitting on a stone. She did not perceive noises or odors. The beings remained indifferent to the presence of her witness. When she returned to her village, she noticed the loss of her identity card and the crown of her watch. The Civil Guard searched the area and only found some bus tickets belonging to the young woman. She that night she woke up with a start dreaming of bugs. The approximate time in which she was unconscious was half an hour (J. Mateos, A. Moya, M. Filpo)
10. August. 1977. night.
Villanueva del Ariscal (Seville) A.C., director of an insurance company, was with his family enjoying the freshness. A son arrived alarmed telling them that he had seen something strange in the sky, everyone observing to the north, towards Olivares, a red object with the apparent shape of two plates joined at the base, immobile, about 60 cm. diameter. A nephew, very interested in the subject, arrived from Portugal, became ill, vomiting all night. The object disappeared instantly. The wife of A.C. At the beginning of November 1977 she woke up one night for no reason and saw for a few seconds a very beautiful light, of a bluish silver color, very delicate, illuminating a tree and the whole room. She was afraid and called her husband but when she arrived she did not see anything, she thought it would be the light from the streetlight, afterwards checking that she had been damaged for a long time. The lady was left with the longing to see her again because she was sure that there was nothing as beautiful in this world. At the end of November of the same year the couple went on vacation to Santa Pola and decided to visit the little island of Nueva Tabarca. Back they had unpleasant weather and a lot of swell. The passengers were inside the ship but, due to the heavy atmosphere, the man decided to go out on deck and observed an object similar to the one he had seen from his chalet. It was red to yellow in color, very bright and he observed it for about 4 minutes, disappearing, perhaps, covered by a cloud. (J. Mateos, A. Moya, M. Filpo)
50. Autumn. 1977. Dusk.
Highway from Seville to Huelva. Two teenagers were traveling on a bus with the rest of their classmates. They were located in the back, next to the rear moon, when they saw a point of light in the sky that caught their attention. They decided to concentrate to get closer, in case it was an alien ship and it reacted telepathically. This is how it happened: it increased in size, dazzling the entire passage. When he was “ordered” to stand left or right, he did so promptly. The driver and his teacher were watching him until he was in the distance, but without disappearing during the journey. When they arrived they were divided into various pavilions, subsequently grouped together in a central dining room for dinner, and watching it all the time. Arrived at the sleeping pavilion they saw him again, motionless. After a while, uneasy, they decided to draw the curtains to see if it was still going on, when they saw a figure, about 20 meters away, slowly approaching them. They could only point out that he had no hands and the lack of wrinkles in his clothing, although there was no absolute match in the description. They left the bedroom going to another and startling the rest of the companions. The next morning they were able to observe footprints of a considerable size. Prior to the event, both schoolgirls had performed vasography. (M. Filpo).
60. October 9, 1977, 8pm. 30 m.
Gerena (Seville). Lucas García, José Vázquez, and Antonio Prieto, 13 the first two and 14 the last, were cycling along a road near a place called “El Berrocal”, a garbage dump. The sky was partly cloudy and hours before it had rained because of a storm. Suddenly they saw an intense glow of greenish light that moved their curiosity and they entered the path that leads to the aforementioned landfill, but before arriving they saw a rectangular object similar to “a saucepan without handles”, illuminated in green, with little white lights. in its central area. It seemed suspended half a meter above the ground. They rushed to town and told J. Mateos who accompanied them to the scene in his car. Upon arrival, about 120 meters from the previous observation, they saw how a white light in the shape of a “V” was projected into the sky for about 40 seconds. By signaling him with a polarized flashlight, the beam disappeared. Around 9 p.m. they were returning. Manuel Llamas, a farmer, and his girlfriend Juani Falantes, were going to the town by car and, when they crowned a slope, about 800 meters from the landfill, they observed a white ball that emitted flashes in their vicinity (J. Mateos, A . Moya)
46. October 14. 1977. 21 h. 10 m.
Seville. Mrs. de Vázquez spotted some strange and large objects moving in the sky. When she was on the terrace she observed a red disc the size of a full moon. Then another appeared, just like she approached the first, while the latter backed away a little. Then she saw a third object in the vicinity of both. They moved taking a reddish color and stopped turning white. Her observation lasted 15 minutes, and she still had the opportunity to call the newspaper and indicate that she continued to see them elsewhere. Three workers from “Abonos Sevilla S.A.” They also saw white lights similar to headlights at dawn that day. At first they were static but later they began to move, presenting as four white lights, instead of two, in the shape of a cross, as if it were one at each end, showing in the center a large intense red light. Its apparent size would be about 25 cm. Suddenly it disappeared on the vertical of the Nervión neighborhood (J. Mateos).
73. October 23. 1977. 20 h.
Gerena (Seville) Ana Rumín and Manuel Fernández chatted amicably on the street and observed a glow coming out of the cemetery. The two exchanged reasonable explanations and continued talking. However, that great cloud of a very intense and unique red color came to surprise them, because the late night was clean and stars were visible. They were watching it for about three minutes and its projection on the wall and cypress trees. They went to Muñoz García’s house to be able to see it from the roof that perfectly dominates the place. Manuel’s wife and the married couple who owned the house went up but the cloud had disappeared. They did, however, make out a small bright object that was slowly moving away, changing its color from red to green with spaced flashes. According to witnesses, the intermittences occurred every 20 seconds. Other neighbors also observed luminous oddities on the cemetery. (J. Mateos, A. Moya)
44. November 10. 1977. 4 h. 30 m.
Highway from Guillena to Burguillos (Seville). Antonio Alfonso Casado was driving his truck, when about four kilometers from Guillena he saw a very powerful light approaching him from the front. When he reached the level of him, he turned and stood behind him in a chase that lasted fifteen minutes until he reached Burguillos. When making a “stop” he stood on top of the truck projecting the great luminosity of it. As he was able to observe it from three positions: from the side, from the front and at its base, he described it as a flattened egg divided into two parts: the upper one was orange-yellow with three concavities, as if it were a kind of skylight and round windows; the interior was a deep blue, with three points of light. It would be about twenty feet long by three feet tall. He heard a metallic noise. As he continued on his way, after the obligatory stop, he stopped seeing him. There were high voltage lines at the meeting place. The press published the news. (J. Ortiz).
13. November 26. 1977. 21 h. 30 m.
Olivares (Seville). A family composed of the married couple, five children and the grandmother, being in their home, near the center of the aforementioned population, heard a great noise from less to more, crunching, like that made by a wood from a ceiling that is strongly pressed . The mother stayed in the kitchen and saw through the window a round object of about 40 cm. Descending on the patio, with a very white luminosity, with a little flame without a point that came out of the base, oscillating like a pendulum, of the same color White. The patio was lit intermittently and the light penetrated through the window into the interior of the house. She then she heard a muffled thump and believed that she had touched the ground but no, she was suspended at about 10 cm. She closed the kitchen door and they were all gathered inside to wait for events. The event lasted about five minutes. They did not dare to go out that night. The next morning they observed a circumference of about 40 cm over the place where the sphere was suspended. It was colorless and for days it dried much faster than the rest of the pavement despite receiving the rain evenly. Among the pots that adorned the patio, they had a hydrangea, the closest to the object, presenting the edges of its burned leaves. In the early morning hours of December 1 of the same year, at 2 am, because the grandmother was ill, her mother went to prepare coffee. Still shocked by the event that occurred five days ago, she sensed that something was going to happen again. Two of her daughters came into her kitchen with the intention of helping her, and again they heard an identical noise that did not last long, and again they hurried out of the kitchen. One of the sons, whose room is upstairs, saw his bedroom light up. He went downstairs to find out what was happening this time and verified that a great luminosity, as if it were a continuous lightning bolt, illuminated everything, without specifying its origin. They entered the house and closed all the doors. In a little while they heard the crunches already reported for a few seconds. Nearby neighbors did not notice anything. (J, Mateos, A. Moya, M. Filpo)
72 .. December 8. 1977. 21 h. 30 m.
Olivares (Seville). Manuel Méndez Cotán, farmer; Concepción Zambruno Méndez, wife; and her five children; While in his home, near the center of the aforementioned town, they heard a noise from less to more, crunching, as when a shoe sole brushes against the ground, discreetly. They went out into the dining room and were amazed by an intense golden light in the courtyard. Seeing nothing abnormal, not daring to open the door, they opened the door to the street and saw that the front facade was also brightly lit. The clarity was such that it filtered through all the cracks. Thus they remained locked in for ten minutes in total silence. The children also witnessed the event. The clarity disappeared completely and suddenly. It happened that the neighbors were not at their homes. (J. Mateos, A. Moya)
47. January 14. 1978. 12 h. 30 m.
Seville. Antonio Somoza, editor of EL CORREO, when he was driving home in the car on Avda. Pino Montano he saw a light that he did not give importance to, but when he reached a change in elevation he found an object about 100 meters away luminous in the shape of an inverted plate that was stopped next to the road and floating at a height of 3 or 4 meters. As a result of the bewilderment, the car stalled and, stopped, he was able to observe it for a minute. It would have a diameter of about 4 meters, it gave off an intense and bright red light without disturbing the view. Immediately, without noise, it began to change to amber color, at the same time it gave a couple of oscillations and began to ascend vertically at full speed (M. Filpo).
7. February 10. 1978. 0 h.
Road from Carmona to Marchena (Seville). Andrés González Masero and José Cerpa Mateos, truck drivers, saw a red light coming that caught their attention but they thought it was an airplane. At about 200 meters he stopped in front of the truck that stopped permanently at about 10 meters without touching the brakes, blocked, stopping the diesel engine and turning off all the lights, even with the ignition on. The light was like incandescent, bright red, flashing, greater than the full moon, reaching to touch the road. They were blinded, shocked for about five minutes, without reasonable cause, not attributable to fear, oblivious to time. When they recovered they turned around. Both presented eye irritations for a week that prevented them from going out on the street. (J. Mateos)
67. February 18 to 20, 1978. 8 p.m.
Aználcollar (Seville). Luis Luque Nacario, forest guard of the Provincial Council in the area between El Álamo and the aforementioned population, taking care of a bees, after dark, he saw a very bright, round “star” colored with the range of the rainbow. In the center was a dark mass, surrounded by three colored rings: bright orange, blue, and dark green, moving from left to right in an arched path. Then he observed that it descended vertically, until it touched the top of a nearby mountain, a kilometer away; then it ascended, also vertically. These maneuvers he did several times, silently. He appears to have landed on top of the mount called “Firebreak Top”, the rings slowly disappearing and the rest below. The total duration of the observation had been about four minutes. He returned to the place of the supposed landing and, given his experience, he was struck by the fact that a cork oak sapling had been heavily crushed, something unusual since, given the time, the only way to get there was on foot. He was limp, as if subjected to a strong heat. Also the stones were like swept in a diameter of two meters and the ground appeared more level inside. He also told us that a few months earlier, around midnight, he observed a reddish ball, similar to a full moon, moving from south to north. (J. Mateos, A. Moya)
48. March. 1 hour..
Seville. Antonio González Morales, a taxi driver, had picked up some passengers in Parque Alcosa to take them to Carmona. About to arrive, they saw a very vivid light from an object that crossed in front of the car to stay on the side of the road suspended and still. He slowed down and they looked. When looking towards an olive grove, they discovered another illuminated object that had the shape of two inverted plates with a diameter of about five meters, distinguishing a green light above and a red one below. In the central part it had an illuminated orange disc. (J. Mateos)
78. April 2. 1978. 0 h. 30 m.
Cantillana (Seville). Antonio Gil and Carmen Moyano, along with their three children, when they were traveling in their car, they saw a group of red and green lights on one side of the lonely road. When they turned a curve they observed a gigantic luminous mushroom, about three meters high, perhaps floating, still and silent at first, to be heard later a sound like engines. As they passed by, they experienced a considerable rise in temperature. As they left the place they saw how it emitted flashes with a large spotlight located at the top. (I. Darnaude)
8. May 13. 1978. 1 h.
Villaverde del Río (Seville) On a path called Camino del Santuario, José Gómez, 30, a mechanic; Francisco Morón, 23, a hospital orderly; Francisco José Jiménez Méndez, 18, student; Manuel Font Rodríguez Carretero, 27, a mechanic, and Julio Centeno Moya, 24, a mechanic, met to take infrared photographs. The night was cold, without clouds or wind, and the Moon was in a waxing quarter, behind the observers. One of them saw a reddish “star” moving in a zigzag fashion. They saw it with 10X50 binoculars and it was a circular figure that vanished when it arrived in front of the observers. After a few minutes they could see another reddish object that was moving in the same direction as the previous one, disappearing just like the first and in the same place. Not ten minutes had passed when they observed two objects: one elongated and next to it another like the previous ones. The first, smaller, disappeared like its predecessors; but the other, cylindrical in shape, presented through the binoculars three domes of different colors: red, yellowish-white and blue; the body was grayish in color, like metal. In the opposite part to their march they saw a kind of turbine. After describing half a parable and approaching the verticality of the witnesses, he headed south. The observation lasted about five minutes. A new reddish point made its appearance in the west, similar to the first ones, fading vertically. There were no noises. (A. Moya)
9. June 12. 1978. 23 h.
Rota (Cádiz) Shortly after leaving by car in the direction of Puerto de Santa María, María Luisa Bermúdez Travieso, 28, single, an employee of the naval base, and a friend observed a disk-shaped object, like two inverted plates. Its central part was surrounded by lights of various colors, not being able to specify if they were windows, at the top it had a dome similar to the light of ambulances. The sky was clear but in the vicinity of the sighting there was mist from which the object came out. Its size was about four or five times the size of a jet fighter. It was descending until a hundred meters, moment in which it flew over them, losing power the car. They heard no noises. (A. Moya)
11. May 28. 1978. 1 h. 45 m.
Guillena (Seville) Pilar Punta González, 60 years old, owner of a bar, heard in the small patio of her house a hissing that became more intense, associating it with someone who was on a nearby roof or the leak of a tap. Looking up at the sky, she saw a very luminous reddish-yellow triangular shape, the size of a new moon, moving high up. As she followed the path, north-southeast, she became aware of a second object with the same characteristics arriving from the west. At the point of maximum approach they crossed and continued, paired, in parallel courses in a southeasterly direction. As the courtyard was small, she could not witness it for long. The hiss faded as the objects receded. (J. Mateos, A. Moya, M. Filpo)
58. June 16, 1978. 3 h. 15 m.
Gerena (Seville). José Llopis, a farmer, was going through the field in a place near a farmhouse called “Rompezapatos” and the farm “Pico Roto”, when he observed in the distance, in the starry sky, a light that approached her down the skirt of a hill. He hid behind a tree and, seconds later, a light purple object passed him, one meter long, shaped like a comet, hexagonal, the tail was approximately twice as long, illuminating the entire terrain where it passed. After flanking the area, he made a perfect “V” in the sky and disappeared. He said that he had never seen anything so beautiful. He lost his original fear and stayed a few minutes in the hope of seeing him again (J. Mateos, A. Moya, M. Filpo)
56. September 11, 1978. 11 a.m.
Seville. Francisco León Burgos, transporter, observed a round, silent object, like a bicycle wheel, since it had fluorescent spokes and a blue crown, which moved from south to north, very slowly. He calculated the dimensions to be about 30 meters in diameter. It was about 500 meters above sea level and about 200 meters away. A friend in the company of his wife also participated in the observation. After a while they saw that it slowly descended, taking on a reddish color, without being able to specify if it landed. (EL CORREO. José Luis R. Romero).
59. November 1978. 3 h. 30 m.
Gerena (Seville). Francisco López Rivero and four people were hunting on a farm called “La Pizana”, located between the aforementioned town, Aznalcóllar and Olivares, near the Guadimar river. It was a dark night, but with good visibility. In the area there are remains of a Roman aqueduct that carried water to Italica, and the rich mines of Aznalcóllar. When the witnesses entered a grove of eucalyptus trees, with some clear spaces, they saw lights that they believed to be a car, but they soon found that it was not true because when surrounding it it always maintained a red coloration. They forgot for the moment and continued with their flashlights exploring in the hunting tasks. But, surprised by the fluctuations in the light, two of them decided to come closer and observed that a human-looking being was circling an inverted jar-shaped object, about three meters high and four or five wide, with a shiny legs. It had several lights, one red at the top, and others in the center of different colors: green, orange, yellow. They saw a being, about two meters tall, that was moving about ten meters, slowly, they lost sight of it, it approached again, it took something from the ground, perhaps it entered the interior. As they were lying on the ground they could only see him from the waist up, without specifying what general outfit he was wearing, although he assured that he was silver with some glass at eye level in a black helmet. He would make a sound, like a cavernous voice, he would go like: “Mmm, mmm.” Exhausted their doses of courage, they fled. In a subsequent investigation, after a little over two months, some footprints, such as a foot, measuring 42 cm were found. (I. Aonso, J. Mateos, A. Gutiérrez, M. Filpo, A. Moya)
4. January 20, 1979. 8pm. 30 m.
Olivares (Seville). Teresa Fernández Ortega was in her patio when she heard a roar. When she looked up, she could see how a red flare of great luminosity sped away at low altitude. Her husband, José Delgado Sánchez, admitted to having heard the noise, but when the luminosity came out it had disappeared. Another couple also saw the light, leaving their home in darkness. On Saturday, the 27th of the same month, Francisco Velázquez Freire, a neighbor, when retiring to rest, heard a strange noise that forced him to lean out of the window, being surprised to observe three luminous balls in the sky that gave off a bright red hue, the which were descending and getting lost on the horizon. (ABC, Manuel Carmona).
53. January 27. 1979. 0 h.
Carmona (Seville). Francisco López Rodríguez was returning to his home when he observed a strange light located about 25 meters from where he was. Thus he traveled about 50 meters until he reached his home, being able to verify that it came from a circumference of about 6 meters in diameter that suddenly disappeared. The incident was reported to the Civil Guard. There were numerous witnesses in the aforementioned town and in areas of Aljarafe. (ABC).
75. March 15. 1979. 2pm.
Gerena (Seville). Paquita Castillo, Antonio Castillo, José Jiménez, Soledad Valderas, aged 7, 8, 7 and 7, respectively, were playing among some olive trees near their neighborhood of Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación, when they saw an object shaped like a table of stretcher, ovoid, of intense red color, with lights around it in yellow color and that moved close to the ground, advancing and retreating. It made a sound similar to what rain makes when it falls on the ground. They saw that the birds as they passed by were illuminated with the reddish glow, and in broad daylight. They watched it for a couple of minutes and, scared, ran home to tell their parents. The version we took was identical. (J. Mateos, A. Moya, I. Alonso, M. Filpo).
52. May 5. 1979. 2 h. 30 m.
Gerena (Seville). Two brothers, researchers on this subject, who had just arrived in the area they usually frequented, saw a pink light in the sky that began to descend, turning white, extremely bright, illuminating the field as if it were broad daylight. Instinctively they took refuge in the car. Recovered, they headed towards where they had fallen, approximately 50 meters away, without observing anything strange. The next morning they returned to the site, tracking it again without positive results (J. Mateos and M. Filpo).
55. 1979. 23 h.
San Jerónimo (Seville). Miguel Pérez was warned by his father because from the patio of his house he was seeing a formation composed of about 15 luminous points that were moving in the sky in an east-west direction. When leaving the son he could see that they had a luminosity similar to that of the stars and that swayed in their path. Their formation changed from triangular to rhomboid. and it was always led by a brighter one. The observation lasted about ten minutes. The wind direction was south north. (Press).
Very luminous object with a circular shape and from which another smaller object appears, observed by hundreds of people over the city of Seville.
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51. May 10. 1980. 7pm. 40 m.
Seville. From the Triana bridge a light was visible in the sky, at the height of the Sun, and about a fifth of its apparent size, evolving in one direction and another. It was seen by numerous people. A photograph was published in the press. (ABC).
78. June 8. 1980.
Ayamonte (Huelva). Carmelo Villar Sousa was riding his motorcycle when he saw a red light, giving off fire from its back, about 10 meters in diameter, like a semicircle, without making noise, approaching him. He headed towards a bridge while the object remained withdrawn, as if in expectation. Indeed: it is placed on him again, having to throw himself to the ground and passing him a little more than a meter above him, noticing heat at that moment. THE MAIL OF ANDALUSIA.
76. August 15. 1980. 22 h. 30 m.
Gerena (Seville). For three consecutive times the aforementioned town was left in the dark. Many neighbors who occupied the nightstands of the summer bars saw two lights of an approximate size of a small orange, pinkish, that crossed each other, blackouts occurring at times of confluence. The town electrician did not know the cause. (J. Mateos)
77. December 8. 1980.
Valverde del Camino (Seville). Francisco Ferrero, a farmer, when he was traveling with his wife, his three daughters and a friend of these, and two traffic policemen, saw some fourteen or fifteen light fixtures, eight of them grouped in formation, flying at high speed, firing red and bluish bubbles that were consumed as they moved away .. The observation lasted a minute. Almost at the same time, some of Gerena’s neighbors saw above their heads a perfect formation of luminous circles, arranged four by four, about eighteen. They were heading at low speed towards El Garrobo. It seems that a ball of considerable size was detached. (The Mail of Andalusia)
80. December 25. 1980. Various hours: day and night.
Isla Cristina (Huelva) Many people saw objects in the sky. They emitted intense bright lights that changed colors: from red to yellow to green. During the night they stood out amid the luminosity of the brightest stars. They were seen for several days. THE MAIL OF ANDALUSIA.
81. December 26. 1981. Sunset.
Jimena de la Frontera (Cádiz). A witness observed a perfectly clear ship on the ground that gave off a green glow. Beside him, on the ground, he saw three tall beings, dressed in metallic white suits, wearing skirts. ABC.
39. November 24. 1981 21 h. 45 m.
Gerena (Seville). Josefa Acuña and her son, Diego Vidal, observed in the “La Calera” farm, located ten kilometers from the aforementioned town, an object that had the shape of a cube used for cleaning, but inverted, with several lights of different colors and two spotlights located on the sides, about 30 meters from the ground. He stayed in the same place. The next day they found a bull dead as a result of serious injuries and another prostrate, with his spine broken in several places and several fractured ribs, without visible damage, lacking any bravery despite being a stallion. The vet described meekness as an anomalous fact and devoid of logic. The dogs remained numb. The next day, at 8 p.m. and 30 m., the couple formed by José María Llama Guillemín and María González Vidal heard a thud, similar to the one that precedes an earthquake. They started out of their house, located in the middle of the field, and observed an object with the same shape seen the previous day, giving off a blinding light. The case was echoed in the press. (J. Mateos)
27. January 30. 1982. 9pm.
Sanlúcar la Mayor (Seville). Land of the La Alegría farm, Los Garabatos gorge. Manuel Morato, married, 30 years old, a tractor driver, was doing agricultural work on a few rainy days when his tractor got stuck. He left him and walked to the farm to ask the manager for help. They took another tractor to tow it and, shortly after leaving, they observed a light that caught their attention because of its length, more than an airplane, and because of its brightness: like a large fluorescent tube, about 30 meters. It flew slowly and they were absorbed in contemplating the trajectory until it was hidden behind some hills. They took out the tractor and decided to go back but, while the manager went ahead, Manuel inspected the place, checking, astonished, that it was almost touching the ground, surrounded by a fog that illuminated everything: plants, stones … about five minutes, he decides to notify the manager, they come back, but he’s gone. That night a black spot appears on their TV and they break down. In the area there are remains of the Roman aqueduct that carried the water to Italica. (J. Mateos, M.Filpo)
61. November 24. 1982. 9pm. 45 m.
Gerena (Seville). Josefa Acuña and her son, Diego Vidal, observed for two and a quarter hours in the “La Calera” farm an object, about thirty meters from the ground, immobile, shaped like an inverted cube, several lights of different colors and two large spotlights located on the sides.
The next day a dead bull and another seriously wounded appeared. The vet said that the deceased had broken his spine in three places, several fractured ribs and several goring, he was soon buried. As for the wounded stallion, he had lost all bravery, an unusual event, and had no signs of having had a fight. Curiously, the dogs did not bark. On Wednesday, the 25th, another phenomenon occurred at 8:00 p.m. 30 m. José María Llama Guillemín and María González Vidal, married couple, who lived in an isolated house in a place called “Monte del borracho”, near the previous farm, heard a noise similar to that of an earthquake. They went out and observed a very bright object, moving at low speed, about eighty meters high and with a shape similar to that observed in “La Calera”. (J. Mateos)
65. September 29, 1986. 3 h. 30 m.
Tablada aerodrome. (Seville) José Antonio, a policeman, was on duty inside the base when, alerted by the voices, he left and could see the take off of a C 130 followed at a short distance by a light. He was able to know that before taking off he was at the head of the runway, flashing, like a large flare and formed by two tangential spheres, one of them larger, rising and falling vertically, causing the astonishment of the control tower personnel. The plane, however, took off when the light was up, then sticking to the tail of the C 130, at which point he saw it. They were severely warned about the obligation to remain silent. US servicemen were unusually seen in later days. (M. Filpo)
64. April 22, 1988. 3 h.
Las Pajanosas (Seville). D. Pedro, owner of a house in that town, heard a tremendous noise similar to an explosion. He leaned out of the window that had one of the broken glass, and observed at the level of his eyes a dark object that emitted an intense light from its upper part. The phenomenon lasted several minutes, leading to the Civil Guard taking to the streets with their weapons in their hands. He needed an eye check. (Delia)
63. April 23, 1988. 3 h. 30 m.
Huelva. Rural Civil Guard patrols saw a round and incandescent object, with a tail or light beam, that was in the air at low altitude and that gave off explosions at intervals. He headed to Huelva and then to Seville. The Arenosillo base said there had been no launches. ABC and DIARIO DE CÁDIZ.
41. February 10. 1990. 20 h. 45 m.
Gerena (Seville). Antonio Márquez, a policeman, was traveling from the aforementioned town to Seville when he had barely traveled about 8 km. He spotted about 40 meters to the right and about 100 meters high an equilateral triangle of about 14 meters on a side, bright. Inside it he made out several hexagons of different colors: green, blue and yellow. Because of fear he did not stop, nor did two cars that passed him. When he reached the intersection of the highway with the general of Extremadura, he entered a brick factory to tell the person in charge about the case and try to calm down. (J. Mateos)
62. April 3. 1999. 22 h. 30 m.
A Mr., with the initials D.S.J.M., was alerted by his wife, from the terrace of a first floor located in East Seville, about a silent shadow, and surrounded, apparently, by lights of a degree of brightness equal to that of the stars. He was shaped like a boomerang and flew silently, at great height and speed. The wife considers that it was a very open “V” (about 130 degrees), both vertically and on the horizon. (I. Darnaude)
40. May 10. 1999. 2 h. 30 min.
Aznalcóllar (Seville). Several truck drivers and a mine guard saw a bluish object, similar to a circular electric heater, about 50 or 60 meters in diameter (they are not quite sure of the size). The sighting went on for 30 minutes. They calculated that it was in the center of the triangle formed by the towns of Gerena, Aznalcóllar and El Castillo de las Guardas. (J.Mateos)
This catalog has been made possible thanks to Manuel Filpo Cabana’s page “Catalog of UFO cases in Seville (1960–1980) investigated in umbrete by Manuel osuna Llorente”
Other Andalusian researchers who have participated in this research:
Ignacio Darnaude Rojas Marcos
Manuel Filpo Cabana
Joaquin Mateo Nogales
Antonio Moya Cespa
Daniel Guerrero Bonet (ADIASA)
Enrique Campos Muñoz (ADIASA)
José A. Galán (ADIASA- C.E.I. Center for Interplanetary Studies)
The graphic contributions belong to the archives of:
Claudia M. Moctezuma and Moisés Garrido
ABC of Seville
ABC of Madrid
José A. Galán UFO Archive
