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STRIP TEASE 1966 drid. 1967 91 ALUCHE, SPAIN, It began on February 6, 1966, in Aluche, a suburb of Madrid. Between 8:00 and 9:00 P.M. a large, circular object was seen to land by a group of soldiers at a nearby ammunition dump, a pattern I call the Unsus- pecting Sentinel trick. The object was also seen by Vicente Ortuna and by a man named Jose Luis Jordan Pena, who was driving toward Ma- Jordan Pena saw "a whitish disk coming close . . . changing in color from yellow to orange." He got out of his car and watched it as it came down in the vicinity of an airfield. In his detailed description of the event, he reported driving close in time to see the disk—which was about thirty feet in diameter and very luminous—trise quickly from the ground with a steady vibration. Under the disk was a symbol that resembled a Cyrillic letter. It looked like a closed parenthesis followed by an open parenthesis, with a vertical bar in the middle: )+(. All of a sudden the object just "went out." Three deep, rectangular marks were later found at the site. SAN JOSE DE VALDERAS, The next incident took place more than a year later, on the evening of June 1, 1967, in another suburb of Madrid, San Jose de Valderas. Several dozen witnesses saw a craft rise behind a line of trees to the northeast and follow a curved trajectory toward the power lines. It was lens-shaped, about 120 feet in diameter, with a bright dome on top. Like the Aluche object, it had a clear symbol on the bottom. It swung to the right, stabilized, reached a point to the southeast, veered again— exposing its insignia to the astonished witnesses—and turned north. It hovered for a moment, then flew up at very high speed. Its color had turned from yellow to orange (as in Aluche) and then to red. Two photographers, who never fully identified themselves, submit- ted pictures of the disk. One of them called the newspaper Informa-