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One of several UFO photographs taken by “Antonio Pardo” at San Jose de Valderas, Madrid, Spain, June 1, 1967 (Fortean
Picture Library)
witness, Jose Luis Jordan Pena, reported seeing
a strange symbol on the bottom of the
craft. It resembled two reverse parentheses,
with a vertical bar between them. Only Jordan
Pena told of seeing such a symbol (in fact
quite similar to the stylized H used sometimes
to represent the planet Uranus), which he described
in a letter to prominent Spanish ufologist
Antonio Ribera. On June 1, 1967, the
same man claimed to have investigated another
close encounter at San Jose de Valderas,
near Madrid. He said witnesses had told him
that they saw a symbol on the UFO’s bottom.
It was like the earlier one, except that now a
horizontal bar crossed the vertical and linked
the two reverse parentheses. The following
day, Antonio San Antonio, a newspaper photographer,
took a phone call from an anonymous
young man. The caller said he had
taken pictures of the UFO, and San Antonio
could pick them up at a certain photographic
laboratory. One of the pictures depicted the
curious logo.
Soon afterward, leaflets signed “Henri
Dagousset” asserted that the UFO had left
capsules in the area. “Dagousset” offered three
hundred dollars for each sample, referring takers
to a general delivery address at Madrid’s
main post office. In August, Barcelona writer
Marius Lleget, author of a recently published
UFO book, received a letter with no return
address from “Antonio Pardo.” Inside the envelope
were two more pictures of the San Jose
de Valderas object with the identical symbol.
Pardo said he had taken them moments after
the first photographer had snapped his. He
also enclosed a green plastic strip with the
symbol on it, explaining that he had recovered
it from a boy who had found it and a similar
strip inside a mysterious tube. (Subsequent