The Seville UFO Sightings 1999

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Seville UFO Sightings 1999

by José M. García Bautista

 What follows is a list of the latest events studied during the month of September 1999 in the city of Seville and its environs. Sightings of a fraudulent, erratic or confusing nature have been discarded, as have those which can be explained from a rational point of view. This researcher seeks to report the following:

 1st sighting:

September 4th, 1999 (Saturday)

Cornisa del Aljarafe, locality of Puebla del Rio (25 km. from Seville)

Time: 21:45 (approx.)

WItnesses: Juan Alcalde Moreno and Soledad Sánchez

Weather: Clear, very good and warm temperature.

Sighting: Two natives of Seville from the community of Puebla del Rio were able to see from their vehicle a very bright light traveling in the sky with a northerly direction (Gerena-Aznalcóllar, El Ronquillo, etc...) The light followed an anomalous trajectory, "hopping and skipping," as per the witnesses' description while maintaining a constant greenish coloring. The object emitted a brioght light which stood out in the Sevillian sunset. It continued its route without any alterations except for the "skips". The sighting lasted approximately 30 secots, after which the strange luminous point ceased to shine and vanished. The possibility of a weather balloon was discarded.

 2nd Sighting:

September 8, 1999 (Wednesday)

Sierra Norte de Sevilla, locality of Alanís (115 km. from Seville)

TIme: 23:20 hrs.

Witness: Antonio Vargas

Time: Unsettled, rather cool and somewhat cloudy.

Sighting: Mr. Antonio Vargas was returning to Alanís along a highway from a small estate where he keeps animals and had gone to "give them a quick runaround", in other words, to take care of them and insure that all was well. Turning aroudn one of the numerous curves on this road, the witnesss was able to see luminous dots over a small hill. They were three powerful orange lights, which would form a triangle if linked in a single line. The artifact appeared to fly slowly and silently over the terrain. Eventually it flew over him and took off vertiginously into the sky. After reconnoitering the premises in person and taking advantage of a family visit to the town of Constantina (near Alanís), I must remark that there are no marks to be found on the ground (although the rain could have played a factor in this) and I discount the possibility of air traffic over the sector.

 3rd Sighting:

September 9, 1999 (Wednesday)

Embalse del Retortillo in the Sierra Norte of Seville, next to the locality of Las Navas de la Concepción (some 100 km. from the capital).

Witnesses: María José Rodríguez, Francisco Ortega, María del Robledo García.

Time: Cloudy and cold.

Sighting: Three witnesses were able to observe a cloudy formation of the ones known as "lenticular clouds", being discoidal in shape and large in size (between 400 and 600 meters, according to eyewitness calculations). The strange cloudy formation was highly luminous and moved erratically, although the wind direction in the upper layers of our atmospehre do not necessarily coincide with the direction in the lower layers. I think that this has a natural explanation and that it falls under atmospheric phenomena.

 4th Sighting:

September 15, 1999 (Wednesday)

Carretera C-432 between the Seville-Cádiz Expressway and the community of Lebrija

Witnesses: Rosa Montero and Pilar Castillo

Time: 15:30 hrs. (approx.)

Weather: Good; agreeable temperatures and good visibility.

Sighting: Our two witnesses were able to see a strange elongated object having the shape of a "sausage" or "cigar" suspended in the sky over a field near Lebrija. The object did not seem to move and its motion--if any--was imperceptible. Our witnesses estimate its length at 100 meters. The object was lost from sight after following its course, without giving the appearance of moving or changing position. The curious circumstance arises that sightings are numerous along this stretch of the road from Lebrija to Trebuena, Sanlúcar de Barrameda to Chipiona and to Rota (the last four location belonging to the locality of Cádiz).

 5th Sighting:

September 18, 1999 (Saturday)

Aznalcóllar - El Castillo de las Guardas, Seville (some 40 km.)

Witnesses: Francisco López and Agustín Baena

Time: 22:00 hours (approx.)

Weather: Poor. Strong wind and rain; unpleasant temperature.

Sighting: Our two witnesses were on their way back to Seville from Sierra de Huelva when whtey made out a bright shape in the sky. It issued lights whose colors alternated between green, light blue and yellow-orange. Its trajectory was irregular, since it traced strange closed angles of between 75 and 90 degrees, amazing our witnesses, who first attributed this to the instability and the inclement weather. The object appeared headed to the East, which is to say, from Huelva to Seville, crossing the so-called "Magnetic Triangle" (Gerena-Aznalcóllar-Castillo de las Guardas). Its speed was swift, since it took 40 seconds to cross our witnesses' line of sight, taking into consideration its brilliance as a reference point in the distance. The road was empty due to the unpleasant climactic conditions, which poured some 60/m2 of rain over Seville. This could be attributed to some meteorological or luminous phenomenon or perhaps even a celestial phenomenon or error of perception by the witnesses, but the "UFO nature" of the region leads us to think that much more could have been going on, since there are numerous reports of this kind to be found tehre, and many witnesses claim having seen strange objects and flights in the area, among them prestigious ufologists such as Joaquín Mateos Nogales or Ignacio Darnaude Rojas.

 These are the latest sightings that this researcher has been aware of in the locality of Seville and its environs. The cases included in this report are the ones most liable to be unidentified flying objects. What is missing is confirmation from INTA regarding tests over teh area. We know that Seville Flight Control confirms the presence of flights during those days but not over those areas. The sighting of September 18, 1999 lends itself to confusion, since the Gerena area is an air corridor for the San Pablo Airport in Seville. In spite of this, the object's eccentric trajectory and the strange luminous colors it emitted appear to discard the hypothesis or possibility of attributing it to some artifact of terrestrial manufacture. These cases HAVE NOT BEEN EXPLAINED. Certain possibilities have been put forward, but they remain POSSIBILITIES whose certainty or rejection is pending confirmation.

 Other sightings have been reported in the area, but after a sober and deep analysis of same, they have been rejected due to a natural, atmospheric or other explanation was found. Some day I shall write further about errors in perception and confusion, including hysteria, in the face of what people took for UFOs.

 [Translation ©2000, 2026 Institute of Hispanic Ufology]