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a fiery light. 92 REVELATIONS ciones to say his pictures could be picked up at a certain photo shop on Calle General Ricardos. There were five photographs, not in se- quence. A couple of months later another man calling himself Antonio Pardo mailed two more photographs. A few hours after the San Jose de Valderas incident, in another Madrid suburb called Santa Monica, several witnesses—notably Rivero, Mrs. Eugenia Arbol Alonso, and at least seven others—saw an object land. The date was June 1, 1967 and the time was between 8:30 and 9:00 P.M. They observed the object coming to the ground near a restau- rant called La Ponderosa. It was round, and it took off again, emitting The next day one of the witnesses went back to the site to investi- gate. He found clear traces: three rectangular imprints, about six inches by eleven inches, forming an equilateral triangle with each side measur- ing eighteen feet. There were burn marks at the center of the triangle, and a metallic powder was recovered. Even with no more evidence, the case would already rank in status with the most celebrated close encounters in history, such as the Socorro case of 1964, where imprints, burns, and metallic deposits had also been noted. But that was not all. The strangest revelation came when a group of people entered the restaurant and told the managers that they had received prior informa- tion that a landing would take place at that site. In following days astonished local residents recovered strange objects in the vicinity: shiny metallic cylinders with a central disk, measuring about six inches in length. When they were opened with pliers or metal saws, these cylin- ders were found to contain a strip of extremely tough, pliable material embossed with a strange symbol—the same insignia that appeared on the underside of the flying saucer that had so conveniently flown over the astonished guards in Aluche and the group of witnesses in San Jose de Valderas. The solution to the UFO problem was at hand. The perfect case had happened at last.