CATALOG OF UFO CASES
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IN SEVILLE (1960–1980)
INVESTIGATED IN UMBRETE
BY MANUEL OSUNA
LLORENTE
20. September. 1970. 10 h.
Umbrete (Seville). A 20-year-old boy, a teacher student, when he went out to the patio of his house was surprised to see next to an electric turret, at the same height, a kind of truncated cone of white luminosity. He tried to go around a large tree but did so slowly due to fear, causing the object to disappear. A neighbor said that at the same time a large light came out of the nearby electrician’s corral. (M. Osuna)
13. September. 1970. 24 h.
Highway from Bollullos to Umbrete (Seville). Antonio Martín Montes, 19, was returning with his motorcycle to Bollulos when, very close to the first town, he observed a green light next to a willow tree, located on the side of the road. He went looking for a friend but when they returned the light had disappeared. Right at the same point, Antonio had observed two lights, one green and one red, on August 24, motionless, about 2 meters from the ground at 9:00 p.m. 30 m. The next day, accompanied by another friend, they saw another green light on some olive trees. (M. Osuna)
21. September 23. 1970. 9pm. 30 m.
Aznalcázar (Seville). Joaquín Diez Cabrera, 12 years old, deaf and mute, returned from his corral to the house in great agitation, causing the family to go out to find out the cause and verifying that it was a discoidal, yellow object, about 2 m. of diameter that moved slowly on the roofs of the mentioned population. The boy made a watercolor. Other people also saw a great light, among them a neighbor who at that moment was introducing his car into the garage, being able to verify that the brightness was so strong that it canceled out the headlights of his car. (M. Osuna)
15. October 10. 1970. 13 h.
Road from Marchena to Morón (Seville). Antonio Guillén Quesada, 10 years old, and Manuel Fernández, 15, observed from a distance of about 200 meters and for half a minute an object of about 2 meters in diameter located about 20 meters from the ground, metallic, gray-white, dull nor luminosity. It emitted a kind of gas from its underside. Its shape was double dome, the union between the two being visible. Small windows were visible on the edge. They also saw in the center of the upper dome a little flag with three horizontal bands: blue, white and red. The object was hidden in a nearby pine forest. Antonio called his uncle, who didn’t see anything when he left his house. There were no noises. (I. Darnaude and M. Osuna).
12. December. 1970. 12 h.
El Castañuelo, Aracena (Huelva). Juan, married, 43 years old, was going with his cattle when he heard a loud noise that made him think of an accident suffered by a truck. He went to the slightly elevated road and observed a device that seemed to him a refrigerator about eight feet high by one meter at the base. He assumed it had been dropped from the truck. With more detail he could see that it had two lights, one above the other. Its color was similar to matt aluminum, pulling towards gray. At the vertices of a face, the one he could see best, he perceived as two windows. He tried to advance but could not and observed that his dog and goats were also hieratic. The situation made him laugh. When asked why he did not throw away a heavy bag of acorns that he was carrying, he said he realized that in that situation he did not weigh him down. They stayed that way for about two minutes, after which he heard the same noise, like the screeching of an electric sawmill, while a puff of grayish smoke billowed off the object as it began a vertical ascent. As the noise rose, it faded and everyone regained their mobility. (M. Osuna, F. Laffitte, S. G. de Juan, E. Campos and Daniel Guerrero)
63. January 20, 1971. 18 h. 30 m.
Aznalcázar road (Seville). Antonio García Delgado and his brother Jacinto were heading towards the farmhouse on a motorcycle. Suddenly they observed at about 400 meters an object so dazzling that it hurt their vision, they think it is discoidal, orange in color, about two meters from the ground, fixed and without making noise. In a hurry they arrive at the farmhouse and in the company of a child they continue to observe him for about fifteen minutes. Afterwards, without changing position, it gives the impression that it fades and disappears. Around the same time there was a general electricity cut in the province, affecting a majority of transformers. Another witness also saw the light. In September of last year, an escort driver of a high person, accompanied by his wife, observed the same phenomenon (M. Osuna).
26. 1971. dawn.
Road to Osuna (Seville). Umbrete’s neighbor, José Delgado Santana, 30, in the company of two other men, were heading towards the aforementioned town. When they were about 14 km. they saw an orange light slowly descending on the road, just ahead of them. Upon reaching about 400 m. It had reached a few meters from the ground and without stopping it rose vertically with the same slowness. The event shocked all three witnesses. (M. Osuna)
91. February 18. 1971. 20 h. 30 m.
Umbrete (Seville). Rocío Trigo, María Cristina and Antonio Vera, 13, 11 and 10 years old respectively, were playing outside the aforementioned town when they saw an oval-shaped, immobile object, something smaller than a full moon, illuminated by twilight. . They thought they perceived luminous dots of various colors, predominantly orange. It was at a distance of about two kilometers. Presently he began a slow march in an easterly direction and suddenly disappeared. Three other children, from a nearby olive grove, believed they saw two orange lights that flew slowly, projecting a beam towards the ground, with flashing lights, brushing the treetops. Also three other children about the same time, from a neighborhood that dominates the vision of the town due to its altitude, perceived an orange-colored object, the size of a full moon, with a slow flight, which suddenly turned off. (M. Osuna)
64. February 19. 1971. 20 h.
Umbrete (Seville). Manuel Romín Prieto, 12 years old; José Romero Moreno, 12 years old; Juan M. González Guerra, 10 years old; They were playing near the “Huerta del Moreno” when they saw a very bright orange light about 15 cm in diameter and one meter in length. The tail was fixed light. They heard no noises. Their statements agreed separately. The next day, around the same time, Antonio Lunar Sánchez, 12 years old; Rafael Ruiz Fernández, 12 years old; Juan Corrales Osto, 13 years old; they observed, after dark, the same light that, this time, was on a well. It intermittently while it made three runs of about 50 meters over the tops of some olive trees, until it disappeared towards the west. On the 23rd, three girls: Purificación Guerrero, Trinidad Morón and Loreto Delgado, all 13 years old, saw three lights, apparently linked, at a low height, on San Bartolomé Street, located at the entrance of that town. One of them insisted that she heard a strange noise. Shortly afterwards, a large group of children saw the passage of the three lights that turned.They were heading so slow and downward that they began a race after them, seeing that they stopped in the air at the height of a two-story house, on the vertical of the “Cerrado Grande”. They went in search of their teacher, but when the lights arrived they had taken the direction of Seville. Two other students who were outside the group also observed them heading towards the Andalusian capital. (M. Osuna)
59. March 1971. 9pm. 30 m.
Road from Venta de las Pajanosas to Guillena (Seville). Vicente Osuna, a merchant, could see that an object of about 2 meters, ovoid, red and with three flashing lights was approaching him. He immediately noticed a daze and a stall in his car’s engine. After the object, everything returned to normal, except for general discomfort and nervous breakdowns. Close in time to the aforementioned event, this same witness saw on the road from El Garrobo to Gerena, on one side of the road, heads with lights and with faces not similar to humans, but to those of animals. (M. Osuna)
67. May 24, 1971. 12 noon. 30 m.
Extremadura road. Cuesta de la Media Fanega (Seville). Antonio Alvárez was driving his car and noticed a strong glare on the road that forced him to stop. He observed that it was a circular object, about seven meters, with a very bright light, and that it remained on top of his vehicle for about four meters. At that time, a truck driven by Julio Santos arrived and stopped to observe the phenomenon. The news was released by the press as the first witness addressed the media. (M. Osuna).
65. June 9, 1971. 9 a.m. 30 m.
Aznalcázar road (Seville). Pedro Luis Chico Alvárez and his wife were approaching the aforementioned town in their car when they saw a strong glow, like a fireball, with clear profiles, the size of a truck, at a distance of approximately 3 km. They got out of the car and it seemed to them that the luminosity was diminishing and horizontal dark bands appeared. The possible object was very close to the ground, strongly illuminating the terrain. They were able to specify that a quarter of the sphere was unlit, placed downward. The observation lasted about 15 minutes. (M. Osuna).
68. June 26, 1971. 11 a.m. 30 m.
Umbrete (Seville). The author, Manuel Osuna, was leaving his house in the direction of the town square and, at that moment, he saw an orange light of a magnitude similar to that of Venus that climbed the zigzag zigzag, at about 70 degrees above the horizon . He immediately went into his house to check the TV for abnormalities. When he did not observe them, he went out with his family to the patio, not being able to see him because he was not at the height that he had at the beginning. Soon they could see it, or it was another one that, at about 45º in moderate speed, was moving away, until it began a sudden acceleration while its size increased and its luminosity tripled. When it had traveled about 30 meters it returned to its primitive speed and brightness, moving away from the town in a SW direction, towards the Marisma. (M. Osuna).
69. June 27, 1971. 9am. 40 m.
Umbrete (Seville). Manuel Amores and his wife, along with another couple, were sitting on the sidewalk of the Archbishop’s Palace looking south, when they saw an orange object moving at high speed. The light was the size of a full crescent and gives you the feeling that it goes around the town, until it heads south. (M. Osuna).
66. July 8, 1971. 10 a.m.
Puebla de los Infantes (Seville). Clemente Rodríguez Morillo, Pedro Parias, Francisca Aros Castilla were having dinner and watching TV when there was a power cut that affected the entire town. The Mrs. went out to the terrace, called to the others, and they observed a flying object of a size similar to that of half a full moon, orange, spherical, without leaving a trail or making noise. Its trajectory was from North to South, rectilinear, and at great speed. Electricity was restored when he walked away. The technicians found no explanation for the aforementioned failure. Near the town there is a swamp. (M. Osuna).
25. 1971. 4 h.
Gulf of Cádiz (Cádiz). While three amateurs were fishing, not far from the Moroccan coast, with a calm sea, they suddenly felt such agitation of the waters that they were about to capsize. Surprised they looked around looking for the cause, supposing that it could be a submarine. Then they saw about 3 or 4 km. an object the size of a bus, with a shiny fuselage, giving off a great luminosity that rose vertically and disappeared after starting a horizontal trajectory. (M. Osuna)
70. 11, 12 or 13. September. 1971.
Shortly before dark. Cortijo “Los Lunarejos”. Aznalcóllar (Seville). Juan Rodríguez Domínguez, familiarly known as “Juan el de la Palmareña”, 82 years old, a bracero, a simple man with primary behavioral patterns, was resting in a hut, preparing to spend the night watching over a melon plantation. Suddenly he saw in the vicinity of a well how a large illuminated apparatus landed, followed by a large group of about fifty small humanoids descending. His appearance did not give away anything special, except that they all wore a tight blue uniform, without caps or helmets. He couldn’t make out their facial features. They advanced in formation, single file, without speaking or gesturing. Juan always referred to “them” as the soldiers. They went to the artesian well and, shortly after, he lost sight of them when he descended into a hollow called “La Alberca.” About five or six stood outside looking at him and blinding him with a kind of flashlight. Juan took a shotgun and hid behind the hut, but every time he tried to look he was dazzled. He did not dare to shoot because he had the conviction that it would be useless: “he would have been surrounded and disabled, there were too many.” He fled as if prompted by a mental order. He came to town after stumbling and falling several times chased to the vicinity by those with blinding spotlight. He always believed that it was about secret military operations to overthrow the “Regime”. It did not occur to anyone to investigate the place in the first few days. He also did not want to report him to the Civil Guard so as not to have “trouble.” He was the subject of numerous jokes that made him furious for questioning his testimony. At that time the national press highlighted the riches of the Aználcóllar mines. (I. Darnaude, M.Osuna and F. Laffite).
28. December 11. 1971. 9pm.
San Juan de Aznalfarache (Seville). A wedding couple was returning to the aforementioned town when they observed a light that moved strangely in the rear view mirror of the car. They got out and watched for half an hour as it rose and fell with movements that oscillated from right to left until it was lost among the olive trees. The apparent distance was about 400 meters. While they waited for another possible apparition, some dogs approached them very slowly and surrounded them, staring very intently at them, without barking. Frightened by such strange behavior, they hurried back to the car. On the 26th of the same month, at 8 a.m. 30 m. They see the same object again in the same place and making the same movements. Hoping that the duration was the same, they set off swiftly to pick up his father, but when they returned in his company they saw nothing. On the 28th, at 8 p.m. 30 m., From the roof of her house, they saw a small light that in a few seconds acquired the apparent size of a full half moon, at about 500 m. altitude. Somewhat later it made a vertical descent. They decided to take the car and headed towards Mairena del Aljarafe, place of the previous observations. The object continued to descend slowly until it was about 300 meters away. It seemed to them that it always maintained the same difference despite the advance of the car. Then it ascended until it was hidden behind a cloud. She, seized with great concern, decided to return home, observing that the object, at great speed, headed towards them until it was the size of a full moon. The groom turned alone and being under him, she disappeared in seconds. She waited and saw him again from the west, in the direction of Mairena. For the third time he reappeared and swooped down, reaching a height of only 100 meters, this time reaching an area of about 9 square meters. The witness tried to take advantage of her closeness to give her a shout, but she instantly disappeared. Within a few minutes there was a fourth apparition, disappearing in the same way. On the 30th, at 7:00 p.m., again from the roof they saw an object in the same place, still, giving him the opportunity to photograph it; also to the Moon, to contrast the shots. They returned to the usual place accompanied by a brother of hers, who also took a couple of photos, while he was lost on the horizon. They marched towards Mairena and shortly before arriving they again spot the object that emerged between some olive trees, vertically, crossing the road, until it disappeared. When they were returning to San Juan, at the Simón Verde crossing, the brother, perched on some olive trees, saw the object suspended at the height of some trees, in a hollow, shooting other photos of it. (M. Osuna)
29. December 8. 1971. 22 h. 11 m.
Umbrete (Seville) Four sightings occurred that same night. Two children from the aforementioned town, Hidalgo and Infantes, saw an object of the classic way cross at low speed. Around 11 p.m. 30 m. A guard named Ramírez, from the outskirts of Gerena, saw “a lit drum” pass at a low altitude and some 400 meters away. Around 24 h. The Justice of the Peace of the latter town, already in bed, was forced by his wife to get up and go out to the patio to see a reddish object, the size of a full moon, with two kinds of legs, also red, which was fixed about two kilometers above the vertical of Olivares. Tired of seeing him, they decided to go to rest. Another Mr., surnamed Macías, when he returned to Gerena around 5 am. he apparently witnessed the same object since its characteristics were the same. He went to Madrid to be interviewed on a TVE program, his intervention was not very fortunate given the sensationalism of the questions they asked him. (M. Osuna)
28. December 21. 1971. 7pm. 30 m.
Carretera de Cádiz towards Granada. A couple observed that it was followed by a dim, bluish light that was located on the rear window of their car. When they crossed another vehicle or passed through a town, it turned off. They stopped repeatedly without noticing anything unusual, but when they drove it reappeared. Before taking a curve the light had disappeared but a few seconds later they found an object located on the side of the road full of very powerful bulbs of white light. It was very difficult for them to describe it, although they assured that it was very bulky, like a bus, floating a meter above the ground, emitting a high-pitched sound. At the height of Loja the light disappeared. The case was widely reported in the national press. (M. Osuna)
61. June 9, 1972. 10pm. 30 m.
Algodonales (Cádiz). About 3 or 4 kilometers from the cemetery, a traveler began to perceive a light that ended in a glare that blinded him as the car stopped. Then he saw in the center of the road an oval of intermittent, yellowish light, surrounded by bluish bumps. He had the impression that it was not material, but pure energy, intelligent in a way. Everything happened in silence. He thought he sensed that the glass of the car had heated up. After about two minutes it disappeared. She thought she saw a light and he headed toward it, heading down a slope. Once on the road he observed that the oval was moving at a moderate speed towards the ravine that he had just climbed. In an upcoming sale they told him that a couple had had the same experience the night before and that they had filed a complaint
60. June 1972. 11pm.
Carretera de Cazalla (Seville), near the cemetery, near the El Pintado reservoir. About 3 km. From the aforementioned town, Francisco Falcón Carmona, a farmer, was driving a motorcycle when he suddenly saw a red, round light with a size of about 25 cm. diameter. The intensity of the light was so strong that it canceled out the focus of the motorcycle. He was going at a height of about 20 meters which he maintained for about 7 km. until he stopped looking at her in the direction of the Swamp. He did not notice any disturbing effects or hear any noise. He saw the same phenomenon again at ten days, and again at two months, at the same time and in the same area, riding the motorcycle as well. In December, accompanied by a sister and a brother, when they were driving in a car, they observed the same phenomenon again. (M. Osuna).
62. October 1972. 2 h. 30 m.
Cazalla de la Sierra (Seville). The Reyes couple were heading towards the aforementioned town when at the height of the El Vizcaíno farmhouse a large circular spotlight the size of a red full moon appeared to them, accompanying them to the side of the car for about 6 minutes along 4 km. The height was constant: about 30 or 40 meters. They did not appreciate anomalies. The captain of the Civil Guard confirms that the focus was seen by many people. (M.Osuna).
71. December 8. 1972. 22 h.
Umbrete, Gerena and Olivares (Seville). The children of Umbrete, Hidalgo and Infantes saw an object with a classic fuselage crossing over the aforementioned population heading north and with little speed. Around 9 p.m. 30 m. Mr. Ramírez, guard of “Agroman”, on the outskirts of Gerena saw “a lit drum” pass at a low altitude and some 400 meters away. The Justice of the Peace of OLivares, about 24 h. he lifted his wife up to see a reddish, two-legged object, motionless, about a mile away, the size of a full moon. After about fifteen minutes they decided to go to rest. About 5 a.m. Mr. Macías entered the town and observed him with the same characteristics (this witness was on TV, and was the object of irony). The news was published in the “Correo de Andalucía”. On the same day, an Authority of Gerena, driving around the Cortijo de Conti in his car, came across a vehicle carrying blinding spotlights. He made the crossing repeatedly without results, stopped on the shoulder and observed that the “truck” had no wheels. (M. Osuna).
72. December 21. 1972. 9pm.
Carretera de Cádiz towards Granada. Mr. Castillo and his wife observed that they were followed by a bluish light, not very intense, without dazzling, which was located behind the rear glass. When a vehicle appeared it turned off, and when they stopped in a town it disappeared. The car slowed down to 40 km / hour and the radio was full of interference. An accompanying dog kept sniffing upward. On one occasion when they did not see it when they left a curve, they saw a large object filled with white light bulbs, suspended a meter above the ground, emitting a high-pitched hiss. They could not specify more details given the physical and mental circumstances of the protagonists. At the height of Loja the light disappeared. The news was published on ABC with certain variations in favor of the sensational. (Fojo Arias and M. Osuna).
8. December 28. 1972. 9pm. 45 m.
Highway from Burguillos to Cantillana. (Seville). Several witnesses were driving and observed a phenomenon that made them stop. It started with a low intensity horizontal lightning bolt. Then there were concentrated flashes from which a dark red ball came out, like dirt, which became more intense as it ascended. He stopped at a certain height to later begin a journey towards Burguillos. When he was almost vertical, they could see three lights: green, white and red. It appeared to be a round or triangular object, giving the sensation of being rotating when moved. Its size was that of a full moon before reaching its zenith. There was a soft touch. It was bitterly cold that disappeared when he walked away. The total duration of the sighting was about ten minutes. (M. Osuna)
33. December 31st. 1972. 1 h.
Road from Seville to Rocío (Huelva). Luis Miguel H. and his wife, along with another married couple, after having dinner at a sale, refueled at a gas station in Hinojos to go to the aforementioned town. The night was overcast and they observed several lightning bolts but, suddenly, a strange ray shaped like a four touched the ground and deposited in the center of the road a very vivid silver light that expanded in all directions, something similar to the glow of an electric welding that However, it did not hurt the sight. When the occupants of the second vehicle were seeing the entire illuminated field, the “beam” went off rising, staying at the level of the hood of the first of the cars. Luis’s wife saw that the “beam” had a non-illuminated lower part and that it was circular, ending in a funnel-shaped stem. The second marriage confirms that its shape was a metallic disk. It remained wobbling for a few seconds, then quickly began a climb at an angle of 45 degrees until it disappeared, making a deafening noise, like that of many jet engines. They continued on their way but again the “lightning” struck the road at a distance of approximately one kilometer, repeating the disappearance. When the first car landed, the light went out, but not the engine; the second also the engine stopped working. The noises were heard in Almonte and Umbrete, as well as the glow. (M. Osuna)
92. February 1973. 4 h.
Finca “La Majadilla” Castillo de las Guardas (Seville). Florencio, a shepherd, decided to leave his hut at the insistence of his dog’s barking and saw a luninous object on the shore of the “La Minilla” reservoir that had in its central and upper part a smaller bluish circle that turned to high speed. He tried to get closer but the dog refused. Suddenly the object rose and moved over the reservoir producing a whirlpool in the waters, losing itself among the mountains that surround the dam, at high speed. Florencio only told the owner and an expert about the case. (I. Darnaude and J. Mateos)
54. Spring. 1973. 22 h.
Guadalcanal road (Seville). The young Pérez Cumbre was heading by car to the aforementioned town when he perceived at the bottom of a depression and at the opposite end of the curve that he was about to start, about 300 meters from where he was, four yellow lights, two bigger ones. , one meter in diameter; the small ones increased from time to time in intensity, giving him the feeling that they were approaching him. He thought it was an overtaking, but when he saw that he was still he stopped and waved at him with the headlights, receiving from one of the larger lights a response translated into a narrow purple band that cut it in diameter. Nervously, he decided to return. As he fled, he was surprised to see that the lights passed by the left of him, silent, and that the engine stopped. When they were away, the car ran normally again. He started his journey again and saw three of them again, static, in their primitive formation, crossed on the road, at a height of about 10 meters. He didn’t stop and went under them. But, when they were passed, he saw them again on the pavement, at an approximate height of one meter. As he approached he observed that the light from his spotlights disappeared, as if absorbed, and that the enigmatic lights did not project luminosity, being a light yellow, as if dirty. He stepped on the accelerator and, irrationally downhill, tried to cross them so as not to have to return again, but very close to the meeting they moved to the left, while the fourth, previously hidden, joined the others, disappearing into the night. After two nights, together with his father, a brother-in-law and a friend, they saw an object on the side of a nearby mountain, somewhat round with small lights that rotated like a roulette wheel. Suddenly he threw two small red balls that before reaching the next mountain disintegrated. A captain of the Civil Guard said that on the ground of the first landing there were two stains that marked the ends of a kind of longitudinal gear and that the stains were not grease, but a tan, yellowish ground. The area is close to the El Pintado reservoir and the Guadalcanal TVE repeater post (M. Osuna).
52. April 22. 1973. 9pm. 30 m.
Gerena to Olivares road (Seville). Manuel Gil Gaytán and his wife saw a large cluster of purple light descending slowly towards the highway. He stopped the car at about 300 meters at the request of his wife while they observed that it began to rise with equal parsimony, vertically, ceasing to see about 300 meters high, as if it had turned off. (M. Osuna).
53. Beginning of June. 1973. 3 h.
Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz). Manuel Rubio Domínguez, 26 years old, got up to go to his work and saw in his patio two immobile objects of a silvery white. One was large, shaped like glasses, emitting an intense, silvery glow, as if it were a reflector. The other was smaller, circular, the size of a full moon, emitting rays that were directed towards the first. He called his sister and they both watched the strange event for a while. (M. Osuna).
55. August 1. 1973.
Mairena del Aljarafe (Seville). Julio Marvizón, meteorology assistant, accompanied by his wife, were watching TV in the patio of their parents’ chalet, when they saw a red, spherical object, and around it three white balls that seemed to rotate. The apparent size of the red one It was 1.5 meters and White’s was a third smaller. His wife thought she saw an equilateral triangle, without pronounced vertices, and in the center of which she saw a fixed red light and on the sides many white ones that produced an increasing sparkle. Another couple, ufologists, observed it late and saw a flashing red and white ball. (M. Osuna).
56. August 14. 1973. 22 h. 25 m
Mairena del Aljarafe (Seville). Rafael Llamas and a child observed four luminous points of different colors within a white luminosity that narrated at a great speed at a height of about 40º above the horizon. (M. Osuna).
50. December 25th. 1973.
El Rocío (Huelva). Two workers on the night shift of the Water Prospecting Company (IDISA) saw a large red light pass over the Guadalquivir marsh that descended towards the sea in a clear parable until it disappeared behind a dune. When they calculated that it was going to fall, its intensity increased and they perceived a large dark body. The possibility of an essay in “Arenosillo” was ruled out because the trajectory went from El Rocío to Torre de la Higuera. (M. Osuna).
51. December 25. 1973. 7pm.
Almonte (Huelva). Joaquín Ojeda Jiménez and Manuel Reales were returning by car to the aforementioned town, and as they passed through the place known as “La Cañada” they saw, from about 150 meters away, gliding over the treetops, about 4 or 5 meters high. , two “braziers” one meter in diameter, belonging to the same body, orange, without leaving odors. It made a noise like that produced in power lines when the wind makes them vibrate. His turns were so smooth that the witnesses, outside the car, were recreating for more than half an hour in his contemplation. Then they took the car with the intention of seeing it more closely, under its vertical, but at that moment it was moving at great speed several kilometers away. The second witness said that such demonstrations were frequent in the area. (M. Osuna).
52. Christmas Eve at the end of the year. 1973. 10 a.m. 30 m.
Zarzuela del Monte (Madrid). José Antonio Llardent, director of the Editorial ISTMO, and his wife, Mª Luisa Castillero, were returning from the town and when passing through a port, located in the foothills of Sierra Morena, they noticed a luminous point that stood out in the sky. Suddenly it began to increase in size emitting orange flashes of great intensity. They stopped the car and watched the event, seeing with amazement that it was heading towards them, while its volume became greater than that of a SEAT 600, showing a circular shape. Scared they got into the car and started the descent, ceasing to see him. They think it must have landed on the summit. (I. Darnaude)
35. Last days of February. 1974. 4 h.
Finca El Vicario located about 4 km. of Aznalcóllar (Seville). José Almansa, butcher; Manuel Ortiz and José Perea saw that night with a clear sky approaching them, while they were traveling in the car along a path at low speed, a kind of “ember. They stopped without turning off the lights, as the light slowly approached them. Scared, they decided to turn off the headlights and the light stopped at about 20 meters for a few seconds, rising vertically at enormous speed. (M. Osuna)
39. April 1. 1974. 17 h. 30 m.
Farm located between Bollullos del Condado and Rociana (Seville). A 27-year-old farmer was crouching during agricultural tasks when a light made him raise his head, seeing as some 50 or 60 meters away an object shaped like a truncated cone, one and a half meters high, and about 3 meters in diameter of the base, metallic blue in color that is held one meter above the ground by four rays of coherent light; he is motionless and silent. He watched as a kind of glass-like window opened at the top, but nothing was seen in the darkness inside. The sighting lasted about a minute. Stunned he is contemplating the rare event when the object takes off obliquely, losing itself in the distance. He was able to verify that there were no traces or damage to the plants. (M Osuna)
79. April 24. 1974
Seville. Three witnesses observed the following: The first says that he saw an oval-shaped object, of not much intensity, which was progressively dimming its luminosity. The second corroborates what was said by the previous one except that it seemed to him that it changed form. The third claimed that it went from oval to spherical, that it seemed to sway and that it also changed in brightness. The observation lasted one hour and the witnesses exchanged a binocular. (I, Darnaude)
80. April 26/27. 1974. 20 h. 30 m.
Seville. Antonio Selva Blanco, a nurse, observed from his home in the Barriada de los Pajaritos and for about 15 minutes an object shaped like a top, with a tripod, still, metallic-looking, shiny. As it moved at high speed, it turned red. At the beginning of the observation, it would be at a height of about three thousand meters, then it came down and it looked older, and as if turning. He was nodding in a pendulum motion. The observation was widespread and the binoculars were shared. (I. Darnaude)
78. April 28. 1974. 16 h.
On Sunday, the last day of the Seville Fair, an object was seen whose upper part was hemispherical, translucent, like gas; in its central part they were seen as rays of light; and its lower part had a metallic appearance. He remained motionless until 9:00 p.m. 30 m. Its general luminosity went from white to orange. It was about five thousand meters away. All possibilities that it was a balloon, or any mirage, were ruled out. Some of the witnesses were: Juan M. Espín, student; Guillermo Rasero, EGB professor and lawyer; Manuel Amores, engineer; Antonio loves, merchant captain; Manuel Barrios, writer; Fernando Campos, student; José Antonio Alarcón, surveyor and meteorologist technician. ABC picked up the news: “Thousands of people observed the presence of a strange bright object” (I. Darnaude)
81. May 1 or 2. 1974. 11 a.m. 45 m.
Seville. Juan M. Fernández, student; Mayor of Seville and family of Alba and Ayala; Antonio Jiménez, mining practitioner; Antonio J, González, bachelor and other people, from different points of the City saw a luminous focus of intense white light, spherical, flattened by the poles, almost in the shape of a lentil, three times larger than a full moon. Some saw it from a ninth floor, horizontally, from the top of the Cathedral, being hidden by the Giralda in its movement. The time he was still was estimated to be five minutes. (I, Darnaude)
38. First of May. 1974. Sunset.
Coto de Doñana (Huelva). A guard, surnamed Caro, was walking beside his horse when he heard a sound similar to that of a swarm flying as the scared animal managed to escape. When he raised his head he could see something like a huge butane-colored Zeppelin at a very low height, to the point that he fell to the ground in fear of being hit. After the incident, he had to locate the horse at a great distance. He was silent for a long time and did not leave the Palace for several days. Some time later, in broad daylight, a daughter of about 5 years old had entered her house in terror, screaming that something very big had passed over her. (Heliodoro Contreras)
37. May 5. 1974. 3 h. 45 m.
Mairena del Alcor (Seville). Three witnesses, whose ages range between 22 and 34 years, were returning to their respective homes when they observed red, intermittent, still and silent lights in the sky. Suddenly they went slowly towards where they were until they disappeared to the south, hearing a noise like an airplane. They continued towards their houses and again they appeared in greater numbers and with more intensity, going north, equally slowly and without making a sound, except for one that changed towards the south. In a little while they met again and stood still. Suddenly the red ones became a single glowing focus of yellowish-white light, moving south. When they disappeared behind some rooftops they heard a noise like an airplane again.
36. May 6. 1974. 12 h.
Villamanrique de la Condesa (Huelva). Heliodoro Contreras, his father, and a couple of other people, saw in the sky a kind of globe of yellowish white light passing through the aforementioned town. It was flying at low speed, at an estimated height of about 150 meters and at a distance of about 200 meters from the witnesses. They saw how it faded moments before passing in front of the full Moon. As it passed, it took the classic shape of two inverted plates, metallic gray in color, lighting up in the central part some small lights of different colors in continuous circular movement, as if the edge was rotating on its own axis. He turned off the lights and disappeared into the distance. (M. Osuna)
82. May 21. 1974.
Seville. The journalist Quintaval in his ABC section says: “Two or three neighbors claimed to have seen in the sky of Seville an elongated and luminous object that was moving at high speed. It had to be large and also retractable, because according to one of the witnesses it would shrink and lengthen from time to time ”.
83. July 5. 1974.
Sierra de Aracena (Huelva). “El Noticiero” echoed the news: “A mysterious red circle has been seen three times and by numerous people on the sky over the mountains of Huelva, in the areas of Castaño de Robledo and Cortegana. Among them is the corporal of the Municipal Police, Francisco Maestre; José Romero, official of the Forestry Heritage and the correspondent of “Odiel”, plus numerous neighbors. Around three in the morning, the phenomenon disappeared to the amazement of the neighbors ”.
34. March 13. 1975. 18 h.
Farm located between Sanlúcar la Mayor and Benacazón (Seville). José Manuel, a delineation student, observed an orange-colored object on the aforementioned property. He hurriedly went to pick up a KODAK Instamatic c / 25 camera to try to shoot some shots of it from the roof of the chalet, but it had disappeared. When he got off he saw him approaching very quickly, although his speed was decreasing until he was at a low height above the vertical of a Mediterranean pine, about a thousand meters from the place where he was. Then he was able to photograph it only three times, because it increased its speed again until it disappeared at an apparent landing site. He went there, noticing a smell of hydrogen sulfide and, starting a search around, saw three 8 cm holes. deep by 23 in diameter, within a circumference of flattened grass, which he also photographed. While taking the shots he sensed that something was flying and threw a photo into the sky for no reasonable reason. The negatives were sent to Madrid for a thorough study, confirming their authenticity. In one of the first photographs a dodecahedron is seen, and in the next an oval object appeared in an inclined position, typical of a take-off. Compared the object with the pine, he gave measurements of about 30 or 40 meters. The duration of the sighting was about 45 minutes. It was widely reported in the press. (M. Osuna).
49. From March 20 to 25. 1974. 9 h. 30 m.
Rociana del Condado (Huelva). Joaquín Suárez Rivas was approaching the aforementioned town in his vehicle when he perceived a very powerful white light in the back of the car. He moved to the right, believing that it was another car that he intended to pass him, but he could see that there were no such intentions. Suddenly the light disappears and, suddenly, it was enveloped by an orange glow that fell on the hood, a few inches from the windshield, disturbing the visibility .. The car began to lose power although the headlights continued to illuminate. Stunned, he came to think that the engine was so overheated that the heat reached red-hot, such was the intensity of the light, without noticing that this model had the propeller in the back. (M. Osuna).
48. March 26. 1974. 8 h. 30 m.
Neighborhood of Santo Tomás. Jerez (Cádiz). Idelfonso Ramírez Guzmán, 17-year-old electronics student, was at home watching TV with strange interference when some friends told him to go out to witness two objects: one still and the other moving quickly in short distances, going from one side towards another, as if they were exchanging light signals. Their sizes were larger than a normal plane, with flashing red and orange lights, varying in intensity. Its shape was similar to a melon slice. They reached a height of about 400 meters. The sighting occurred approximately one kilometer from the witness and lasted just over half an hour. Nearby were a TV repeater, powder magazines of the Sierra de San Cristóbal, an anti-submarine base where the one that moved several times and the Jerezana sugar factory went. In one of his trips he crossed part of the city of Jerez. (M. Osuna).
47. March 27. 1974. 10 a.m. 45 m.
Bridge over the Trebujena road. Jerez (Cádiz). José Collado Carmona, administrative, 20 years old, was warned by a relative of the presence of an object that was on a mound suspended about two or three meters away. The aforementioned object was three times the size of a full moon, in the shape of a melon slice, giving off red and yellow luminosities that illuminated the area. There was a power outage for about fifteen minutes in the surrounding area. Nearby is the Sanatorium of Santa Rosalía. It was observed from a bridge because the small hill belonged to a private farm, with a distance from the witness to the object of about two kilometers in a straight line. Other people got out in their cars to witness the incident. (M. Osuna).
76. March. 1974. 17 h.
Baena (Córdoba). José Francisco Díaz Navarro, painter, was circulating on the road, nine kilometers from the aforementioned town, when he observed an almost oval object, 4 by 2 meters, immobile, like nickel, reflecting the Sun, about 300 meters from the road and about 400 meters high. Dazed, he fled. (M. Osuna)
46. April 5. 1974. 9 h.
Villanueva del Río and Minas (Seville). Laureano Jiménez Vergara and José Mora Hernández, miners, along with seven children between the ages of ten and fourteen, saw a red object shaped like a truncated cone according to some and round according to others, measuring one meter and twenty centimeters in diameter. about. The distance, also approximate, was estimated at about 200 meters. It passed at considerable speed over the town’s water tanks. He made a 45º turn to get lost in an immediate vegueta. They went looking for him but they no longer saw anything. However, other people claimed that they saw him rise. Everything proceeded without noise. (M. Osuna).
26. April 16. 1974. 20 h.
Strait of Gibraltar. Many passengers who were making the crossing from Algeciras to Ceuta, aboard the ferry “Virgin of Africa”, observed for a few minutes something strange and luminous that emerged from the sea, rising not too high to fall again abruptly. Suddenly they could see a torch of intense light and almost round shape that emerged from the sea to fall under the water again. Shortly afterwards, it rose again, remaining for ten seconds, and again plunged sharply towards the sea, finally disappearing in low flight after “The Dead Woman”. (Logos. La Vanguardia 16.04.74)
41. End of April. 1974. 23 h. 30 m.
Hacienda Torrequemada. A worker was coming out of the main building towards some exterior houses and could see a small red ball on the vertical of a haystack. In later nights he was able to see her again. Both times it disappeared as if it were extinguished. Another night, around 10 p.m. 30 m., The wife of one of the workers, when she went out to the patio, she saw a larger red ball that was slowly rising vertically from a corner of the large quadrangular patio. She entered terrified to warn her husband but when she left her they no longer saw anything. The foreman, very skeptical of the previous events, was leaving with his car at night when he observed another red ball one meter in diameter until it disappeared with a strong flash, at about 15 m. of the place where he was. He went back to the hamlet and, very upset, related the event, asking to be accompanied. (M. Osuna)
74. May 5. 1974. 11 a.m. 30m.
Snlúcar (Seville). Some boys from Benacazón and Bollullos were returning from a dance in Villanueva del Ariscal and as they passed a gas station near Sanlúcar they saw a bright red light pass in the sky. Some claimed that it rotated, others that it showed an elevation in its center, others that it was shaped like a wide-brimmed hat. They continued their march and at the height of the Sanctuary of Loreto they saw another or the same one that increased its intensity in the vertical of the aforementioned religious house. (M. Osuna)
73. May 6. 1974. 4 h.
Umbrete (Seville). Mr. Trigo, a transporter, got up to load his vehicle and noticed about 500 meters in a SW direction that a white, compact, round light, like a globe, is fixed on a road, between some posts that mark the entrance to an orchard. After about 15 minutes Manuel Román arrives and they both wonder what it could be. Once the preparations are finished, they have to undertake the trip to Seville with the sadness of not having been able to get close and the concern of not knowing the nature of the phenomenon. (M. Osuna)
75. May 7. 1974. 10 a.m. 30 m.
Rociana (Huelva). Manuel Amores, an engineer, and José Luis Lázaro, a plastics technician, were invited by Heliodoro Contreras, another friend, and Francisco Ferraro, owner of a farm located in the aforementioned town, to make observations that had been lavished since last December. The first took place at the appointed time, it was a fixed, luminous point that, when viewed with twins, two could be seen: one red and the other green, making continuous turns. When it disappeared, another of the same characteristics was seen again, with identical maneuvers. At 10 a.m. 50 m. they saw another that was still without being observed and that began a trajectory from south to north, at different speeds, turning off before losing sight of it. Several witnesses about fifteen people saw the second and third observation. Mr. Ferraro commented that these phenomena were frequent. (M. Osuna)
77. May 19. 1974. Afternoon.
San Juan de Aznalfarache (Seville).
Angel Lucio and María Cámara, married couple, and their two children, when they went to the Simón Verde Urbanization, they saw two plate-shaped objects, immobile. They stopped and stared at them, scared. Suddenly they approached and began a rapid trajectory until they disappeared. (M. Osuna)
40. May 27. 1974. 23 h.
Olivares (Seville). Some 14 boys, accompanied by the parish priest of that town, were collecting alms, when from one of the houses on the outskirts they saw an orange light that was traveling horizontally at very low speed and at a height of about 6 or 7 meters. The sighting lasted about 8 minutes. The priest, in his 40s, was very affected and decided to leave the collection and go back to his house. But one of the boys, Manuel García Baya, called his cousin to whom he proposed to go to a house that had a very high roof. They were provided with binoculars but did not see the aforementioned light. However, they were able to observe at about 5 km. away, on the vertical of an area between Salteras and Valencina, a light that descended vertically and disappeared as if it had reached the ground, to rise again and remain fixed at a certain height. Elsewhere they saw another light that slowly began a trajectory and froze. Shortly after the same phenomenon was repeated elsewhere. They also saw another light accompanied by some smaller ones that were flashing, then staying still. The event lasted about an hour. (M. Osuna)
45. June 10. 1974. 11 a.m. 30 m.
Madrid. Ramón Garriga Miró, professor of aesthetics, saw for an hour an object that gave off a pale, white luminosity that moved to the right and left and from top to bottom, perhaps in elliptical spaces. Sometimes it blinked and gave off a reddish reflection, other times it was blue-green. It also faded to reappear. First it looked like a fireball that grew in size, then it looked like a cross light and then you could make out the shape of an elongated saucer. (M. Osuna)
44. June 18. 1974.
Almonte (Huelva). A motorist, with 32 years of meteorological experience due to having worked at the airport, saw, shortly before arriving in Matagorda, accompanied by many other people, next to a small road, an oval, orange object, apparently twice the size of Venus, without flashing, flying towards the sea, as if it were from Vejer de la Frontera to Rota. He ruled out the possibility of a landing at the naval base because he continued toward Almonte and because of his extensive experience in recognizing aircraft. (M Osuna)
43. End of June. 1974. 1 h. 30 m.
Umbrete (Seville). Rafael Sánchez, a soldier, was passing through Nueva Street, open and wide, with low buildings, when he saw on the roof of the house that closes the mentioned street an orange, bright, without dazzling, oval-shaped object, about 3 meters diameter of the major axis, fixed, at a distance of approximately 100 meters. He quickly reached his house without waiting for the sighting to end. (M. Osuna)
42. July 22. 1974. 22 h. 30 m.
Road to Bollullos, near the “La Herencia” farm (Seville). Juan Corrales was driving a motorcycle when he saw an orange, almost red, about 25 centimeters in diameter, fixed. The height could not be specified. The spotlight began a swift movement toward the SW and he stopped seeing it. After a minute, when rounding a curve, he found the light again, now on the left, standing on the vertical of a pine tree, a few meters from the road. As I approached he began a slow movement in a southerly direction, without modifying the height. He must have sped up or shut down because he stopped seeing it.
101. October 20. 1980.
Coria (Cáceres). A strange “cone of fire” was seen a few days ago, appearing suddenly, at high speed and making a noise similar to that of a jet plane. He disappeared in the same way. The base of the aforementioned cone moved about 50 meters from the ground and during the three kilometers that it traveled in a width of four meters, it left the animals burned, evaporated the water from the ponds and burned the vegetation. Metal objects were twisted, as if subjected to very high temperatures. The geologist Gil Montes said that the earth was vitrified in a depth of four or five centimeters. He pointed to the possibility that it was a globular lightning although there were no storms or an electrical discharge from a high voltage line. (Eph).
99. December 16. 1980.
Villanueva de la Serena (Badajoz). Two couples who were traveling by car to the aforementioned town distinguished in the municipality of Campanario, the presence of numerous bright orange objects that were furrowing it at high speed. They stopped the vehicle and counted about twenty objects that had a large light trail of the same color. Upon reaching the vertical of the town of Coronada they were reduced to a few points. (I. Darnaude).
100. December 25. 1980. tomorrow
Isla Cristina (Huelva). A team of veteran Sevilla footballers saw some strange objects that emitted an intense flashing light that changed color, from red to yellow, passing through green. Many people from Huelva, La Antilla and Lepe have seen rare objects both during the day and at night in recent days. (I. Darnaude).
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
