December 14, 2025 • 8 mins
by UFO History Buff & Author, Charles Lear ~ In the course of researching UFO cases in Spanish speaking countries, one is bound to run into Scott Corrales and Inexplicata: The Journal of Hispanic UFOlogy. It exists today as a website, but in the fall of 1998, Corrales put out the first print version. In issue number 3, put out in the spring of 1999, Corrales celebrates the public reception of the first two issues and notes that there were 1800 visitors to the inexplicata.com website. In that issue is an article by Javier Garcia Blanco headlined “Roadside Encounters: UFOs, Aliens and Missing Time,” that Corrales promises, “does for driving what Spielberg’s Jaws did for swimming: you won’t want to get behind the wheel!” Blanco is credited with being the editor (along with Angel Briongos Martinez) of the Spain-based magazine Declasificado and the director of LACIP.The first case Blanco goes into is that of “veteran radio personality” Pedro Mateo and his wife, Gloria Jiménez. According to him, Mateo described what he said happened to him and his wife on June 26, 1977, after explaining, “I have it etched upon my mind because we were flying to Dusseldorf that day, and most of what happens to me I write in a notebook.” He said that after leaving Zaragoza at around 5:00 a.m., they were just past the town of Los Garrigues after sunrise when they saw a disk-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. Read more →
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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
(00:32):
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
(00:56):
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
(01:19):
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,
(01:39):
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
(02:00):
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
(02:20):
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
(02:42):
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
(03:05):
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
(03:25):
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
(03:49):
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
(04:12):
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
(04:34):
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
(04:56):
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
(05:17):
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
(05:41):
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
(06:02):
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
(06:23):
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
(06:46):
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.
(07:10):
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,
(07:32):
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,
(07:53):
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.
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
(00:32):
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
(00:56):
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
(01:19):
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,
(01:39):
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
(02:00):
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
(02:20):
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
(02:42):
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
(03:05):
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
(03:25):
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
(03:49):
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
(04:12):
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
(04:34):
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
(04:56):
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
(05:17):
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
(05:41):
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
(06:02):
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
(06:23):
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
(06:46):
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.
(07:10):
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,
(07:32):
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,
(07:53):
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.
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