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Pontejos Santander Spain -6th January, 1969

I have the following notes and images on this incident and they were sent to me by someone many years ago but with no source.  If anyone can give me details of sources in Spanish and English I would appreciate it as I do not usually like un-referenced reports.

Thanks

At around 21:15 hrs Maren Merino was working in the kitchen of a small café owned by her family when she looked out the kitchen window and sees an intensely bright light but did not think anything of it.

Above: location of the incident

Maren continued with her work until her 25 years old daughter, Felicidad Fernandez Merino,  entered the kitchen and also looked out of the window and observing the light, asked her mother about it.  Her mother continued to ignore the light but Felicidad, thinking that it was something abnormal,  yells out to two other women, including a woman called Paquita. 

All three women then open the window and observe an incredible scene, on a field about 30 meters in distance, hovering about 3 meters from the ground they see a luminous square of four to five meters wide, intensely illuminated with a light of orange-white color. Inside the luminous square they see the silhouette of man walking about. Suddenly from the right another similar figure appears and walks towards the left side of the luminous square.

Above: Witness(?) sketch of the object and entities.

 Then from the opposite end of the square three more figures appear, thus making a total of five figures within the luminous square. By now the witnesses are totally fascinated and my source states that they shouted out to the figures. The women  were then joined by another witness; 35-year old Antonio. After watching what was going on Antonio told the women he was going to go outside the get a better look and at this moment the craft disappears from sight. 

Above: an artist's rendering of the scene

According to the observers the movements of the figures was somehow mechanical with arms straight down at their sides without any apparent joint movement. The entities were tall and very well built with normal features, chestnut-color hair and light skin. They wore dark or black, very tight-fitting coveralls with sleeves and turtlenecks. The observation lasted for about 5 minutes. Suddenly  a small shiny sphere descended from the middle of the air falling to the soil in a curvilinear trajectory and the  UFO also became visible again and clearly displaying the shiny square section and the sections of the object that had remained invisible to the witnesses thus far.   The object was an ash-silver colour, lightly fluorescent and half spherical dome shape. The object then ascended slowly and disappeared very quickly leaving behind a brilliant greenish trail that remained visible for about 15 minutes after the object left.

The case was investigated by Professor Manuel Pedrajo.

Some emphasis has been put on the object "vanishing" when Antonio said t5hat he was going to go outside.  Quite honestly there is no reason to believe that the entities "sensed" this and it seems far more likely to be just coincidental.  The sphere dropping to the ground seems to be the part that makes no sense. Are they saying that another object left the first and landed?   There seems to be very little online in English.

 In Spanish I have found Juan Carlos Victorio's Mysteries of The Air blog and  The Pontejos Incident (Cantabria) from  9th February, 2009 which seems to dismiss the sighting as being an observation of the Moon with cloud cover. Which is almost a stretch but the illustration of the entity from one source is dismissed as being a typical Adamski-like Venusian but with short hair but again this seems a stretch to explain the observation as  a hoax or "seeing what they were not seeing" and to back this up a link is provided to a BBC post on witness memory problems. The Moon and bad observations. 

https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2009/02/el-incidente-de-pontejos-cantabria.html

It is also worth pointing out that the witness drawings of the object are said to be similar to another report and I will quote:

"The Santander group CIOVE published an article, The Observation of Pontejos (Santander), in its newsletter Tiempo y Espacio (year 1, no. 1, Nov-Dec. 1970), based on the research carried out by Manuel Pedrajo and Gonzalo Sanz Polidura. In the aforementioned work they show a drawing of the type of humanoid observed, clear influence of the Adamskian extraterrestrial (with short hair), and another of the UFO where the resemblance to the “flying saucer” of Lago Argentino (March 18, 1950 , possibly to journalistic fraud) is evident."

Above an illustration of one of the entities which might be embellished by memory

Well, "possihly" a journalistic hoax is often used to dismiss a report and I would have to ask for the evidence of a journalistic hoax?  Although I believe Adamski was a damned good conman followed by a lot of gullible people (even to this very day) the dismissal of the entity description is pushing it at best since Adamski's "space brothers" did not move mechanically.  The fact that Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos only managed to track down and speak to Felicidad is also no reason to dismiss the account.  Neither is the current position of a window in the developed building.

Did the Mysteries of the Air blog add any details to the report? No. It reproduces two pages from a book but these are not readable or saveable to try to translate. More effort is put into dismissing the report than giving details of it.  Does this mean that the blogger is calling into question Prof. Manuel Pedrajo's investigation?  Certainly Spain has had its fair share of Ufologists hoaxing other Ufologists not to mention attacking other Ufologists credibility (to be fair this happens everywhere in what is largely an undisciplined and often unethical field).

It is an interesting report worth noting but far more is needed to be able to categorise it as a Low, Medium or High Credibility report.

Are We Going to Let All of the Information Fade Away: Or Are We Going To Do Something About It?

 originally published in 2018 on the AOP Blog

I would like to offer this page from Patrick Gross' Ufologie page.  It shows the results for an incident during the 1954 "French UFO flap" -which may not have been a flap at all (see Unidentified-Identified):

The 1954 French flap:

The index page for the 1954 French flap section of this site is here.

October 3, 1954, Marcoing, Nord:

Reference number for this case: 3-oct-54-Marcoing. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

REPORTS:

[Ref. la1] "L'ALSACE" NEWSPAPER:

The newspaper reports on October 6, 1954, with no other information, that there was a sighting in Marcoing. The date is not given but the sighting is mentioned among others that took place on October 2 and 3, 1954.

See the article here.

[Ref. li1:] "LIFE" MAGAZINE:

MARTIAN MEN'S HEIGHT is shown by two bakers. Pierre Lucas (left) of Loctudy was going to well when, he said, orange ball fell from the sky. Suddenly a small bearded figure with one eye in the middle of his forehead tapped him on the shoulder. Serge Pochet (right) of Marcoing was approached by two small shadows.

[Ref. ar1:] ALBERT ROSALES:

103. Location. Marcoing France Date: October 3 1954 Time: night Bakers apprentice Serge Pochet was approached by 2 small shadowy entities, about 3-feet tall. No other information. Humcat 1954-67 Source: Humcat quoting Newspaper reports Type: E?

[Ref. dj2:] DONALD JONHSON:

Donald Johnson says that on October 3, 1954, a humanoid report occurred later than 6:45 p.m., in the night and did not involve a UFO sighting: young baker's apprentice S. Pouchet, was approached by two small shadowy beings, about three feet tall, in Marcoing, Nord, France.

The sources are noted as "Webb, David F. & Bloecher, Ted. HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0271, citing Life Magazine, November 1, 1954" and "Life Magazine, November 1, 1954".

[Ref. gn1:] "GNEOVNI" UFOLOGY GROUP:

In "Special notes" of their catalogue, the GNEOVNI group indicates that there exists in several books, such as Aimé Michel's "M.O.C.", Planète publishers in 1966, in which there is a number of observation cases in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais which are not included in their catalogue because there "remains much doubts as to their credibility." One of them is noted "3-10-54 Marcoing nord".

[Ref. ta1:] "THINK ABOUT IT" WEBSITE:

Location: Marcoing France Date: October 3 1954 Time: night Bakers apprentice Serge Pochet was approached by 2 small shadowy entities, about 3-feet tall. No other information. Source: Humcat quoting Newspaper reports

[Ref. ub1:] "UFO-DATENBANK":

This database recorded this case 9 times:

Case Nr.	New case Nr.	Investigator	Date of observation	Zip	Place of observation	Country of observation	Hour of observation	Classification	Comments	Identification
19541003			03.10.1954		Marcoing	France	Night	CE III
19541003			03.10.1954		Marcoing	France	20.00	NL
19541003			03.10.1954		Marcoing	France	20.00	NL
19541003			03.10.1954		Marcoing	France	20.00	NL
19541003			03.10.1954		Marcoing	France	20.00	NL
19541003			03.10.1954		Marcoing	France	20.30	NL
19541003			03.10.1954		Marcoing	France	20.30	NL
19541003			03.10.1954		Marcoing	France	20.00	NL
19541003			03.10.1954		Marcoing	France	Night	CE III

EXPLANATIONS:

Not looked for yet.

KEYWORDS:

(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)

Marcoing, Nord, Serge Pochet, entity, entities, dark, small, two

SOURCES:

[---] indicates sources which I have not yet checked.

• [la1] Article in the regional newspaper L'Alsace, Mulhouse, France, October 6, 1954.
• [li1] Part of the article "Astral Adventurers - Frenchmen report meetings with unlikely creatures", in LIFE Magazine, USA, page 28, November 1, 1954.
• [---] "HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports", compiled by David Webb and Ted Bloecher, Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), USA, circa 1978.
• [ar1] "1954 Humanoid Reports", compiled by Albert Rosales, circa 2001, at www.ufoinfo.com/humanoid/humanoid1954.shtml
• [dj2] "The Worldwide UFO Wave of 1954", electronic article by Donald Johnson, Ph.D., USA, page 5, 2009, at www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/papers/Worldwide%20UFO%20Wave%20of%201954.pdf
• [gn1] "Catalogue Régional d'observations", by the Groupement Nordiste d'Etudes des Observations d'Objets Volants Non Identifiés (GNEOVNI), France, undated, circa 2009, at www.geru.fr/fr/catalogue-regional-observation-ovni-nord
• [ta1] "1954: October Sightings", catalog on the UFO website Think About It, USA, not dated, found 2014, at http://www.thinkaboutitdocs.com/8-1954-october-sightings
• [ub1] Online database UFO-Datenbank, Germany, found in 2016, at ufodatenbank.de

So what do you notice? Perhaps that someone notes that someone referred to this case...appearing in newspapers?  I am hoping that this sticks out like a ten feet (3m) high glowing red thumb. We have a case, once again, of 'investigation' by news-clippings.

Two reported incidents of alleged actual landings and entities and who turns up after -the press. There were people claiming to be flying saucer investigators but that amounted to noting down a news item on the radio or adding a newspaper clipping to the scrapbook. From the news clipping these people could pontificate and waffle on over pages.

I understand that there was no funding for flying saucer research but most of these people involved in the subject knew each other one way or another. There was a very real attitude, not just in France, that even if a report came from a mile or two away -why go investigate when the newspapers had all the information?

I actually almost choked on a swig of coffee when I read Italian investigators, who had not once even attempted to go and investigate Rosa Lotti's encounter in 1954 until the early 2000's, complaining and criticising newspapers and journalists for leaving out information and not doing a thorough job. Well, at least the reporters got off of their arses and went to see her.  There are literally hundreds of cases like the one above.

Writers -'ufologists'- are making money out of including these cases in their books and worst of all in their "data" or "sightings breakdowns" that make them look so good.  The truth is that they are producing nonsense: they have no data other that he wrote what so-and-so wrote who got it from whatshisname who found it mentioned in a newspaper clipping. That is then the solid data used by people like Jacques Vallee who does not actually check anything himself. 

The period 1947-2018 has literally achieved nothing when it comes to ufology other than over-hyped hysteria, bunko-men and...literally, huge volumes of trash.  Graham F. N. Knewstub's British Flying Saucer Bureau Technical Report No. 1 was in the 1950s, we all thought that we were seeing real science (I was fooled, too) when Vallee published his work on UFO Waves, Flaps and so on.  He included well known hoaxes, misidentifications of aircraft, meteors, weather balloons and much more in amongst the not investigated UFO cases. The data was useless.

Then we saw Ted Bloecher Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, published in 1967. This was an actual attempt at analysis and to piece events from that year together.  Published work that could be peer reviewed. It was as early as 1956 that Bloecher became intrigued by the growing number of “UFO occupant” reports and along with researcher David Webb, started to work on what would become the Humanoid Catalogue –HUMCAT: a collection of early “humanoid” sightings. I prefer not to use the term “Humanoids” as an all-encompassing term but the important thing is that the work began.

   Ted Bloecher’s major interest was always in occupant reports or Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE3K), as they would be called after J. Allen Hynek set out his categorisation of UFO sighting reports.  Bloecher had been one of the top thinkers in the Civilian Saucer Investigation group and after that became active with the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) and when  NICAP became “moribund”, Bloecher moved on to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS).  He was still concentrating his efforts on investigation of CE3K reports with David Webb. In 1978, CUFOS published his and Davis's Close Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955, based on the investigation of the Kelly-Hopkinsville case.

   Bloecher could well be called the top authority on these cases in the United States by the 1970s and though he did everything he possibly could (see UFO Contact?) to get the Euporia, Mississippi landing/entity case prioritised and investigated it never was –presumably due to the prejudices of the two investigators.

   But being the top man does not come with a university grant or even financial funding and to keep records complete Bloecher filed away press reports.  This should have been the data base used for thorough investigation of the cases. Instead, ufologists just quoted Bloecher and that he, himself, was referencing newspaper reports.

   Then came the big excuse of the “Grey Abduction Paranoia” –if a case did not involve Greys then it was a fake or misidentification.  No need to bother. Or to use the much criticised US Air Force ‘excuse’ used so well by MUFON today: the amount of time that has passed negates any fruitful investigation.

Ufology does not “get the respect deserved”?  You earn respect.

Two cases from recent years I have tried to get more information on so I went to the site owners who reported on the cases.  In each I was told “I picked that up from (website) –best you contact him” and so I did: “I read that on (name of website) because it seemed interesting” and then I was advised to contact the “original source”. This original source turned out to have copied the item from some newspaper item and he could not remember which or the date. This is the most common response I get when following up old reports and today I more or less expect it.

Ufology is basing all of its claims on cases –including plain old “UFO” sightings- that were never investigated because it is much easier to sit in a chair and say “The evidence is all there” –it is not.

In the United States, France and Belgium I think there are enough ufologists with some credibility who can open cold case investigations on old CE3K/Alien Entity cases.  Once the witnesses, now in their 60’s, 70’s and 80’s are gone then so are all of the facts that they can tell us and to ascertain which, if any, of the CE3K/AE reports is genuine could provide us with the valuable data we need.

I am undertaking this work in the UK (though some prominent ufologists appear to not want this –I wonder why?) and I just hope and pray that someone out there will do likewise in their own country.  

PLEASE!

"Inter-galactic Travel" -What?

Above: Like early explorers mapping the continents of our globe, astronomers are busy charting the spiral structure of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Using infrared images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have discovered that the Milky Way's elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Previously, our galaxy was thought to possess four major arms. This annotated artist's concept illustrates the new view of the Milky Way, along with other findings presented at the 212th American Astronomical Society meeting in St. Louis, Mo. The galaxy's two major arms (Scutum-Centaurus and Perseus) can be seen attached to the ends of a thick central bar, while the two now-demoted minor arms (Norma and Sagittarius) are less distinct and located between the major arms. The major arms consist of the highest densities of both young and old stars; the minor arms are primarily filled with gas and pockets of star-forming activity. The artist's concept also includes a new spiral arm, called the "Far-3 kiloparsec arm," discovered via a radio-telescope survey of gas in the Milky Way. This arm is shorter than the two major arms and lies along the bar of the galaxy. Our sun lies near a small, partial arm called the Orion Arm, or Orion Spur, located between the Sagittarius and Perseus arms.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC/Ca

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I still find it incredible that people in Ufology refer to "inter-galactic visitors"  -how are they supposed to be taken seriously?  Firstly, which galaxy do these people think UFOs are coming from?  Our nearest neighbouring galaxy is Andromeda. And the Andromeda galaxy is 2.2 million light-years away, with a single light-year being almost 6 trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers).  It makes no sense that any possible alien civilisation in the Andromeda galaxy would want to visit the Milky Way when its own galaxy sprawls across space.

Look at the number of stars in our own galaxy - Milky Way.  It is difficult to estimate numbers based on our position in the galaxy but scientists give their best estimates as  the Milky Way being made up of approximately 100 billion stars

How many planets is the next question people should be asking and Ufologists tend to get all of their 'facts' off equally dubious web sites.  Bear  in mind that our solar system (not thoroughly investigated) has eight planets, Other stars may have more or less and, turning to scientists who work on this stuff every day, the Milky Way galaxy could have between 100-200 billion planets -or possibly many more.

Now, that leads us into trying to guess, and it is guessing, based on things such as The Greenbank Formula, the number of habitable planets in the Milky Way. Well, considering that every time someone says "That might be an alien signal" another scientist says "Probably a microwave", you might think that at best maybe 100 -is that too wild a guess?

Far from a wild guess actually as it is, based on very conservative interpretations, estimated that our galaxy holds at least an estimated 300 million  potentially habitable worlds. According to the results of a study to be published in The Astronomical Journal. NASA discusses it here:  https://www.nasa.gov/missions/kepler/about-half-of-sun-like-stars-could-host-rocky-potentially-habitable-planets/#:~:text=Our%20galaxy%20holds%20at%20least,published%20in%20The%20Astronomical%20Journal.

I have no doubt that scientists have looked at UFO reports since 1947. I have no doubt that those scientists have also looked at reports by investigators of close encounters of the third kind.  In fact some such reports from the old Commonwealth -Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), South Africa, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, etc, I know were forwarded back to the old Air Ministry.  Whether those in charge had their own personal biases and dismissed such reports based on personal religious beliefs or just because they would not accept that anything was coming from "out there" is another matter.  Talking to the late Air Vice Marshal Sir Victor Goddard I know this was the case.  Look at Ufology where in all the decades since 1947 there is still mocking and ignoring of CE3K reports.

Officialdom is no more enlightened than the Ufologist.   We should have been looking at these encounters from the very outset to establish witness/percipient credibility and from that credibility of the reports.  Instead we have seen nothing more than the various prejudices and no matter how seemingly major a report seems if it involves anyone who is not white skinned the racial prejudices explode into dismissals ("Well, he just came out the US Army and, you know, he's black and -wink wink- you know they smoke some funny stuff!").  We have lost, perhaps, 90%+ reports since 1947 because a news clipping was the only investigation and it took the Ufologist a great deal of skill, time and effort to glue that in a book.  

What we need to remember the Milky Way is 100,000 light years wide -oh, Andromeda is much larger at approx 220,000 light years across.  We need not draw Andromeda into Ufology or our Citizen SETI work because ...well...the Milky Way!  

As American physicist Michio Kaku suggests; if you ever do find yourself on board a UFO/craft -STEAL SOMETHING!  I know, that sounds bad but something made by an alien civilisation can be tested and no I am not even thinking of Vallee and Nolan and their  bunko claims; something taken from an alien craft is evidence because it is an actual physical thing and that is what we have so far lacked.   

Therefore, think only Milky Way as a possible origin point for claimed aliens. Also remember that when it comes to solid evidence you will need to put aside a moral stance and steal something. Humans have done far, far worse over the centuries.

(c)2024 T. Hooper-Scharf

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