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But the evidence that should have proved that the Ummites were who they claimed to be, simply confused many people when it became known that there had been a sighting 6 months earlier in the same area, similar in many ways to the 5 June sighting. Why, they argued, had not the Ummites announced this sighting beforehand too? The earlier sighting occurred on 6 February 1966 in the suburb of Aluche to the south-west of Madrid, between 8 and 9 p.m. An orange-colored disc-shaped UFO had made a brief landing on a farm near an airfield. It was seen by a large number of witnesses, including a group of soldiers, a man named Vincente Ortuno who, from his sixth-floor apartment, saw it both land and take off, and a housewife who declared she saw a giant eye looking at her. The most important witness, though, was a motorist named Jose Luis Jordan who saw te object from his car. He stopped to get out and take a better look, then drove onto where he thought it had landed. As he approached, it rose quickly, but he was able to give a detailed account of what he saw. The craft was luminous, colored, and 33 to 39 feet (10 to 12 meters) in diameter, giving out a steady, muted, vibratory sound. Beneath it were three projections resembling landing gear, and a curious marking, something like the letter 'H' Marks were later found in the area where Jordan had seen the landing, and a 1. + ona sore photograph of them appeared in Informaciones. The predicted UFO was seen in near-daylight conditions, a little after sunset, in three separate locations in the south-west suburbs of Madrid. The first sightings Th oR Shortly afterwards a Spanish ufolog named Manus Lleget published a book which he requested additional information on the San Jose' sighting. On 26 August received a letter from a man signing him Antonio Pardo, who described how he his family had been in the area on 5 June had seen not only the UFO but also a young man taking photographs of it. Antonio Pardo also had his camera with him and he too, took photographs of the UFO. Alas, in excitement he forgot to take off the lens cap when he took the first two pictures. Nonetheless, he did end up with seven clear pictures - two of which he sent to Lleget. They were very similar to those taken by the anonym young man. On the landing site they found strange tubes (the site of the Madrid landing of 1 June 1967) The tubes, which were around 5 inches (13, 5 centimeters long, were filled with a liquid that escaped and evaporated on opening -and also were over the open grounds.