Description

Source: CUFOS - The landing at Turís 1979 (https://cufos.org/PDFs/IUR%20issues/IUR%20Vol.%2033%20No.%201.pdf)

Turis Valencia Spain
Date: July 25 1979
Time: 1130 a.m.

Federico Ibáñez, a successful 54-year-old farmer was driving to some grape fields, just south of the village when he encountered a brilliant white object in the middle of the roadway blocking the access to the grape field. As he drove on and approached to within four meters of the craft he could see that it was a half egg shaped object with a smooth shiny white surface, about 2.20 meters tall and 2.50 meters wide. It rested on two "feet".

Strange beings appear -

Stunned and still sitting inside his vehicle, he saw two identical beings run from behind a carob tree to his left. They were between (2 feet 7 inches–3 feet 4 inches) tall and running quickly one behind the other, almost touching. They did not turn to face the observer, who saw them only in profile for a couple seconds. They entered the object on its left side.

Thanks to his sharp eyesight, Ibáñez could see that they were wearing a white outfit that seemed to be “puffed up with air” (about half as wide as they were tall), beginning at their foreheads and almost reaching the ground, leaving their small dark feet uncovered. Their arms were short, folded tightly against their bodies and ending in dark hands. The only details that he could see on their faces were some protruding black tubes, about 7–8 centimetres long. Like “glasses that are used for welding, but longer,” was the analogy that he put forward.

The UAP takes off -

Suddenly, the object ascended at great speed, not quite vertically but slightly inclined toward the witness’s left, and then it headed almost directly west (at an azimuth of 260º–265º). It stirred up a whirlwind that swept the ground clean, but even so, Ibáñez had time to make out through his windshield a smooth, circular base that was the same bright white colour as the rest of the object. He no longer saw the feet of the object.

He quickly got out of the car, but could only discern a “pearl” in the sky that disappeared in the heights. Perhaps because he had no time to cut the ignition and the window on the driver’s side was down, he did not hear any sound from the object. In all, from the time when he saw that it was strange until it began its take-off, about six seconds elapsed; and then, four more until it was out of sight.

Ground evidence found -

Investigators found within a circle four tracks in a perfect rectangle, (5 feet 10 inches by 4 feet 4 inches). Two of them had deteriorated, but the team took exact measurements and made plaster casts of the other two. Each one had a shape of a circle 3 inches in diameter, formed of eight spherical holes 0.9 inches in diameter, which in turn symmetrically surrounded a central spherical hole about 1.4 inches in diameter.