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STRIP TEASE Madrid." 93 A PERFECT CASE There are several groups of dedicated UFO researchers in Spain—their dean is Antonio Ribera, who began his work in the late Fifties—and they wasted no time in investigating this amazing cluster of events. There were dozens of witnesses to interview, seven clear pictures, ground traces, and physical evidence. Never had so many favorable factors been assembled around a single series of sightings. All the ele- ments of a genuine breakthrough were available. The obvious first step was to analyze the plastic strip discovered inside the capsules. It was found to be made of Tedlar, a polyvinyl fluoride, entry number 5.2g in the standard book Identification and Classification of Plastics by Haslam and Willis. The primary consumer of Tedlar, an extremely strong and weather-resistant plastic, was NASA, which used it to cover its rockets when they were on the pad awaiting launch. The material was not commonly available in Spain at the time, although it could have been obtained by the military, a defense contrac- tor, or a subsidiary of an American firm. In the days following the sighting at Santa Monica, shopowners in the area received a letter signed by one Henri Dagousset. It appealed to local people to look for more capsules, stating that "a steel worker and a young girl . . . have discovered some metallic cylinders with a central disk whose dimensions are provided here for reference purposes . Both capsules are now in our hands and we are enclosing the photograph and drawing for one of them." The letter went on to offer up to 18,000 pesetas—$300, a significant amount in Spain at the time—'"for each one of the cylinders that conform to the enclosed model. . . ." The letter was accompanied by a note: "All correspondence must be directed before June 28,1967, to Mr. Antoine Nancey, main post office, Rafael Farriols, a Spanish researcher, obtained one of the capsules from a UFO amateur who claimed to have gotten it from the mysteri- ous Antonio Pardo, the man who had already volunteered one of the