UFO Encounters on the Roads of Spain by Charles Lear.

In the course of researching UFO cases in Spanish speaking countries, one is bound to run in to Scotcheralis and Inexplicata, the journal of Hispanic Eufology.

It exists today as a website, but in the fall of nineteen ninety eight Corlis put out the first print version.

In issue number three, put out in the spring of nineteen ninety nine, Coralis celebrates the public reception of the first two issues and notes that there were eighteen hundred visitors to the Inexplicata dot com website.

In that issue was an article by Javier Garcia Blanco headlined roadside Encounters, UFOs, Aliens and Missing Time that Coralis promises does for driving what Wielberg's Jaws did for swimming.

You won't want to get behind the wheel.

Blanco is credited with being the editor, along with Antobriangos Martinez of the Spain based magazine Declassificado and the director of La cip The first case Blanco goes into is that of veteran radio personality Pedro Matteo and his wife Laura Jimenez.

According to him.

Matteo described what he said happened to him and his wife on June twenty sixth, nineteen seventy seven, after explaining, I have it etched upon my mind because we are flying the Dusseldorf that day, and most of what happens to me I write in a note book.

He said that after leaving Zaragoza at around five a m.

They were just past the town of Las Caregas after sunrise when they saw a disc shaped object off in the distance.

He wasn't overly concerned at that point, but got scared when it proceeded to move quickly and silently towards them.

It stopped above the car, and Matteo's description of its size appears at the top of the article.

That thing had the side of eight cars or more.

In other words, when it was on top of us, it looked like a skyscraper.

He saw a sign for a gas station one thousand meters away and sped up to one hundred and sixty kilometers per hour.

He said, seconds later, we noticed the object disappearing the same way we saw it arrive.

According to Matteo, when they got to the station, it was very odd.

It had two posts and a broken down shed with a kind of pump.

When season American stations, a one point nine meter tall man dressed in faded blue coveralls came over, and when they asked him if he had seen anything unusual, he said he hadn't.

They weren't able to see his face because he covered it with something that looked like a sandwich.

When he realized they weren't buying gas, he left.

They continued on to the airport, and whereas they had expected to get there at eleven a m.

They didn't arrive until two thirty p m.

And barely had time to catch their flight.

They were missing three hours.

They didn't talk about their experience during the flight there or even on the flight back.

At the hotel in Dusseldorf, Yemenez noticed that her underwear was torn on one side.

On their drive home after their trip, they put a cassette tape in the car's player to listen to some music and heard nothing.

They tried other tapes and found that they had all been erased, and when they got home they found that they couldn't record on them.

Matteo's bifocals were missing from the glove compartment and later the car's roof and hood on the passenger side, which had been read turned pink.

The couple also found a strange wart on each of their genitals after reading a book, which from the description was probably John Fuller's nineteen sixty six book An Interrupted Journey.

Later, they found that the gas station where they had stopped never existed, according to Blanco.

Another couple, Alberto Bellerin and Maria Joseph Torres, were heading for their home in Monzon on April second, nineteen seventy six.

They were on Highway End two forty going through Anguis when they saw an object heading towards them in the other lane, moving at about fifty five kilometers per hour.

It was shaped like a flattened pair, about three point five meters tall by seven to eight meters wide, and moving as if riding the waves.

The object passed them, giving off sparks, and then rose up into the air and moved out of sight.

The couple found themselves in front of the San Roman Parador, with no memory of passing by the bridge in the town of Lacellus before it.

They were missing fifteen minutes.

They reported they felt a great sense of calm, tranquility, and well being a few days afterwards, and that their car ran better and even breaks better.

Blanco then describes two cars being chased by UFOs, one driven by Issous Garcia in nineteen ninety five, who reported radio interference, and the other driven by Anna Cassameyor in July of that year.

Garcia reported a rectangular object with blinking multicolored lights, and Casimeyor reported a metallic disc.

After this, there is a report from Zadigosa.

According to Blanco, on November first, nineteen sixty eight, five recruits Francisco Marti Cortero and four others not named, were heading back after being away on a pass on the Los Manegros road.

They saw what they thought was the sun coming up, but then realized that the sun was on the opposite horizon, described as a luminous disk.

It came closer, and when it was half a kilometer away, the car engine and radio shut off and the headlights dimmed.

The men later noticed that their watches had all stopped at the same time.

The object is described as being as big as a bull ring and is said to have landed five hundred meters to the left and remained there silently.

For three minutes.

According to Blanco, it then rose up, suddenly accelerated, and was quickly out of sight.

At this point, the car's engine and radio started up, and the headlights returned to normal.

Once they were back, they reported the incident to their superiors and were subjected to detailed questioning.

Finally, there is a case Blanco doesn't give a date, from Bergo de Ebro, a small town located a certain distance from Zaragoza.

According to Blanco, Balthazar Caverro Andrew, a humble shepherd, was headed home on his motorcycle after sunset.

Halfway there, he saw three men who were standing on the roadway.

He got to within forty to fifty men of them and thought it must be the Guardia Civil.

Andrew turned on his high beams and the three men started running down hill.

He followed them for about two hundred meters, and after coming around a curve, didn't see a trace of them.

He described them as one point eight meters tall, dressed in white, and having blue bands on their backs that ran from their shoulders to their waists.

While this might not seem all that strange, he reported that two days later he went to check on his sheep and sheep dogs, and saw that they were all huddled against a wall.

He then saw two men dressed the same as the ones from before, flattened against a wall as if to avoid detection.

He ran away and called the Guardia Civil, but when they arrived, the men were gone.

In his conclusion, Blanco comments that these cases, and thousands of others like them, evinced the phenomenon's interest in the human being and a desire to let itself be seen as for the purpose of such encounters, he says, who knows.

Charles Lear is the author of The Flying Saucer Investigators, available in its second edition at Amazon dot com.