Alien iconography

THREE SCREAMS IN THE DARK

One starry August 1975 night, two men are alone in an isolated cabin somewhere in Spain. The sleeping one is suddenly awakened by a horrible scream. He rushes to his friend’s room. On entering, he slips on something and fells head-first into the floor, losing consciousness. When he awakes, a strange “bip-bip” sound permeates the night. Looking outside, he and his friend see a big multicolored ufo hovering nearby. They try to phone the police but the line is not working. The younger man takes a revolver and both walk outside. There they met two aliens. The beings seem to be naked but do have a fishbowl-like headgear. With big eyes and pointing-down ears, they speak a strange language that it is translated by one of them.

The aliens invite the humans to surrender but the young man fires his revolver. Some invisible shield stops the bullets and the humans run away. A paralyzing ray stops them in their tracks. They are taken inside the ufo. The aliens put the older human into a table and tell him they are going to open him up to learn about his insides. Thankfully, they put him to sleep before starting…

Fact or fiction?

This time, it is just a hallucination caused by the head injury and the protagonists are two cartoon characters, “Segis y Olivio, traperos de alivio”, created by the Spaniard Jaume Rovira Freixa some years earlier. The story appeared in Mortadelo Especial #002 dated 18 August 1975.

Jaume Rovira, born in 1951, is a well-known cartoonist and designer. I will post here several of his stories because he is the main creator of ufo-themed stories at Bruguera comics. Of course, there are several Spanish cartoon series inspired in aliens and we will see them all, but the alien characters are usually put into human situations without causing any surprise, just for a funny gag. On the other hand, several of Rovira’s creations have had real or imaginary ufo encounters, properly described. Sometimes, there are quite curious parallels with real ufo cases, too. 

For example, in this the first ufological story created by Rovira (as far as I have discovered), the ufo is clearly inspired by a famous Argentinian CE3K (close encounter of the third kind) that took place at Trancas in 1963 http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread906922/pg1

The oointed-down ears of the aliens are also mentioned in a posterior real incident (when I say "real" I am NOT saying it really happened, just that it was so described by a real witness):

29 January 1976

Near Pahrump, Nevada (USA)

22:15. While driving SW of Las Vegas, country & western singer JS (I will not publish witnesses names for privacy reasons) saw descending from the sky a rusty orange cigar shaped object with flashing red and white lights on its end and a darker ring around the middle, in which were portholes. It was 20 m long or longer. Then his car stopped, and he got out to check the engine. 70 m away he saw two 170 cm tall men walking toward him who wore silver sparkling one piece uniforms with a diagonal white stripe, and a round white central emblem, but no visible seams. They also had a wide white belt on which there hung capsule-shaped objects which were silver colored and about 3 cm long. He wanted to get into his car, but felt paralyzed. As the men approached, he saw that they were bald and had close set squinting eyes, a gray white complexion, and something like gills under their ears. Their faces were wrinkled and their mouths were very small and their noses “puggish.” One of them questioned JS in English (not using his mouth) in a slow, “robot-like” voice. Asked, “What are you doing here?” he replied, “I am an entertainer”, then “What are your means of communication,” which he was at a loss to answer, and irritated his interlocutor. 4 or 5 other questions were asked which he has not revealed following their orders. They said “we know where you are” and that they would see him again. Turning to go, the leader brushed his fingertips over the witness hand, which seemed to release him from the paralysis; “his suit was rough, like coarse sandpaper.” They walked away, and the car started again. Sands estimates that the whole episode took about 10 minutes.

Many observers reported seeing rust colored cigar shaped objects over the Las Vegas Valley that night. JS initially reported to the police, who referred him to the OSI at Nellis AFB but they refused to get involved. Apparently, JS passed a polygraph test, but he was afraid of hypnosis.

In a posterior article, the film crew which, on the evening of 10 February took JS out to the site of his experience, explained JS was “stoned” at the time. They still believe the initial experience was real, but…

                

Sources: APRO Bulletin 24:9 (March 1976), pp. 1 + 3-4 & ·In All Fairnes”, APRO Bulletin 24:12 (June 1976), pp. 2, 4-5.

Curiously, some weeks or months later than Rovira, the same kind of aliens appear in a Belgian comic story published in Tintin #49 onwards, “Luc Orient – La porte de cristal”, by Paape & Greg. Its publication coincides with the abduction case mentioned above so we cannot discount nor a possible feedback neither its direction.