The Night of the Shape Shifting Humanoids (Part 2)
by Red Pill Junkie
Greetings, fellow Coppertops! We continue with the chronicling of the Conil close encounter,
when a group of 5 local kids witnessed all sorts of otherworldly phenomena at a beach
in the coast of C�diz, which included red-glowing UFOs, orbs of light, a 10-foot-tall levitating
giant, and (last but not least) two cloaked entities who transformed themselves into a
human-looking couple right in front of them. So strap in, because the high strangeness
surrounding this remarkable case is far from over!
The Debunking As we briefly mentioned by the end of part
1, it only took a few days until the incidents occurring on the night of September 29th,
1989 became a matter of public knowledge. After El Diario de C�diz ran a story about
the case on October 5th, members of the Spanish Group of UFO Investigations (GEIFO in the
Spanish acronym), a skeptically-oriented organization, visited Conil de la Frontera to conduct a
field research and interview the witnesses; they asked the same local newspaper to publish
their findings, which it did on October 16th.
Cover of El Diario de C�diz from October 16th, 1989, running the debunking explanation
by the GEIFO group The conclusion by GEIFO�s researchers? The
whole episode had been nothing but a big misidentification caused by over-excited imagination. The red
UFO observed by the group of local boys and girls for the past couple of weeks ��as
big as the moon� according to their testimony� had actually been a British ship in charge
of laying down underwater cable for the Telef�nica phone company in that area, which was near
the coast of Conil during the night in question according to their findings, and used �light
signals� to coordinate the work with ground personnel. The �aliens�, according to
the skeptics, were two crew members of said vessel wearing scuba-diving equipment and
covering themselves with blankets or towels, and the �white cloud� they had observed
coming down from the sea, was nothing but the wake left by a Zodiac boat they divers
had used to reach the beach. Case closed, Scooby Doo!
�But wait!� you may be asking, �what about the trench the �divers� dug out
in the sand? What about the blue light they passed around each other while they were lying
down on it? What about the TEN-FOOT-TALL GIANT which appeared after the couple walked to
the town (leaving their �towels� AND all their equipment behind?)?�
GEIFO�s answers to all these questions �and the way they left other questions unanswered�
seem to be more incredible than the testimony of the witnesses itself: The trench was built
by the divers because they wanted to �remove their gear in privacy� �you know, instead
of doing it much more easily onboard the British ship or the Zodiac?� or maybe because after
a hard night�s work laying out cable, they wanted to spend a few hours under the C�diz�s
fair weather doing *ahem* �other things� *wink wink*. The �orb� they had on their
hands was a mere torchlight, and the black-suited giant was another diver, possibly in charge
to pilot the Zodiac boat (!) So, in the eyes of the �scientifically-oriented�
investigators �the ones who think any sort of explanation, no matter how tenuous or downright
improbable, is always better than entertaining the possibility of a truly anomalous event�
the 5 Conil witnesses rather than being UFO hoaxers seeking publicity, were just a bunch
of gullible idiots. I�ll leave you Coppertops to decide which is more insulting�
The Counter-Debunking
Juan Jos� Ben�tez: Reporter, UFO investigator, author and globetrotter
5 months after GEIFO�s report had �satisfactorily� solved the case �and quite possibly subjected
the 5 witnesses to all sorts of ridicule in the process� investigator Juan Jos� Ben�tez
visited Conil to make a research of his own. Ben�tez is one of the most famous UFO hunters
in Spain and has been instrumental in coaxing his government to declassify a good number
of cases which were investigated by the Spanish Air Force. He has also traveled thousands
of miles all across the globe to conduct field investigations and interview hundreds of witnesses,
most of them humble townsfolk living in remote villages, who had never shared their testimony
outside their circle of friends and family. He is a bestselling author not only in his
home country but in all of Latin America, and it was in 1990 when he described his involvement
on the Conil case in his book La Quinta Columna. Ben�tez�s approach to put GEIFO�s theory
to the test was simple and straightforward: The skeptics� main argument was that the
UFO observed by the witnesses had been one of two British vessels laying down underwater
cable �this despite the boys� insistence that during the night in question there was
NO ship or boat on sight. Ben�tez did corroborate the existence of
two oceanographic ships, the British Enterprise Two and the C.S. Monarch, which had been hired
by a Spanish subcontractor to conduct work for the Telef�nica phone company. According
to GEIFO, the Monarch had been the one near the coast on the night of September 29th;
yet their first mistake was in stating the ship was laying down the cable, whereas in
fact they were conducting preliminary prospecting of the littoral.
It took some hard work, but in the end Ben�tez managed to uncover 3 important pieces of the
puzzle: When the Monarch started working in the area
(September 18) its position was 60 miles away from the coast, which was too far to have
been able to be spotted from the beach (not to mention the witnesses started to observe
the red UFO on the night of September 14th). On the night of September 29th the meteorological
report indicated the weather conditions were inadequate for any medium-to-large ship to
even approach the coast, due to the strong winds winds mixed with the low tide and the
littoral currents. But the coup� de grace came when Ben�tez
was able to contact captain, J. A. B. Simkins �Chairman and Chief Executive of BT Marine,
the oceanographic fleet which owned the Monarch� who on July of 1990 wrote him a letter stating
the approximate position of their vessel during the night in question (36� 23' N, 06�
44' W), placing it 30 miles away from the Bateles beach. Consider how during the best
viewing conditions, the horizon line on the sea only extends 8 miles.
And if that is not enough, here�s a link to Ben�tez�s own web page describing the
Conil case, where if you scroll down you can find a scanned copy of Simkins� letter.
In it one can read the final nail in GEIFO�s coffin:
�[During our operation] (W)e would not have employed frogmen.�
Check. And mate. As an aside note, Ben�tez also managed to
discover (according to an article written by Bruno Carde�osa published by the magazine
A�o Cero in 1996) that around the time of the incidents two individuals bearing the
characteristics of the �changeling� couple were lodging on a small guest house in Conil
around the days of the encounter; these �tourists� registered themselves using the passports
of German citizens who, supposedly, hadn�t abandoned their country in those days �unfortunately,
La Quinta Columna doesn�t mention this detail, nor can further information be found in Ben�tez�s
website. But wait, there�s more! Ben�tez also uncovered
another interesting part to this mystery: On the nights from Sept 27th to Sept 30th,
the military radar station located in Algeciras (C�diz) suffered an inexplicable malfunction,
which rendered the whole Conil area �dark� during the period in which the alleged UFO
activity and close encounter took place. Coincidence, or did someone (or something) was trying to
avoid detection? Ben�tez�s detective job showed GEIFO�s
main argument failed to convincingly explain the events that took place at Conil. But although
it proved the UFO was not a British oceanographic ship, and the humanoids were not British scuba
divers, it can�t unfortunately substantiate the testimony of the witnesses and what they
claimed they saw. Corroboration to their fantastic story did
take place, though; albeit indirectly and in the typical inconclusive manner in which
the phenomenon tends to conduct itself� The Return
How many UFO hunters, I wonder, feel as if they are doomed to always remain 2 steps behind
their �prey�? Always trying to document cases, interview witnesses and collect whatever
evidence remains AFTER the objects and their occupants take off or leave the area; but
never having the chance, just for once, of actually be able to witness the high strangeness
with their own eyes. Well, for local UFO hunter Jes�s Borrego
L�pez that was about to change when he decided to travel to Conil in search for more answers
on October 15th. A police officer of 44 years old assigned to the Security and Control office
of the C�diz town hall, Borrego L�pez easily managed to locate four of the witnesses
(Loli, Isabel and the two Pedros) who politely accepted to answer his questions.
Once they finished talking at one of the witnesses� home, the researcher asked them to accompany
him to the Bateles beach, which they accepted even though it was already late at night.
Once Borrego L�pez was satisfied with his field survey, he invited the group of boys
and girls to a local bar for a refreshment, where they remained lively discussing the
incident. It was around 10:35 pm when the group instantly
fell silent, because they had all taken notice of a strange couple crossing in front of them
toward the sea. Borrego L�pez was the first to say �have you noticed the forehead of
that man?� The youngsters said nothing and kept looking
at the odd individual and each other in total amazement. Borrego L�pez insisted: �look
at his height! He measures 2 meters tall, easily!�
The boys finally dared to open their mouth, confirming that was indeed the same �man�
and �woman� they had observed leaving the Bateles beach after their �transformation�
inside the �sand trench�. The male with the prominent cranium was walking
2 steps ahead of his female partner. Like the witnesses had described in their original
testimony, he had long blond hair reaching up to his shoulders, and was wearing a denim
attire which looked somewhat worn out and tightly fit. The woman was way above regular
height (1.90 meters) and wore similar clothes as her less-conspicuous companion.
Borrego L�pez and Pedro S�nchez quickly got up the table and left two of the witnesses
behind, with the clear intention of intersecting the couple who were ahead of them by at least
150 meters. �Visibility was perfect,� Borrego L�pez
reported later to Ben�tez, �despite the fact the streetlights at the marine promenade
were turned off (according to town hall�s regulations). But the night was very clear.
There was a full moon and also low clouds reflecting the town�s illumination and lunar
light over the sea.�
La Quinta Columna (The Fifth Column). The book where Ben�tez narrates (among many
other encounter reports) the events surrounding the Conil case
Yet despite these optimal viewing conditions, and the fact the two UFO hunter and his young
sidekick were keeping pace with the odd couple, the individuals suddenly vanished in front
of Borrego L�pez and Pedro�s very eyes. Bewildered, the two chasers looked in all
directions, but their pursuants were nowhere to be found.
The unexpected disappearance raised goosebumps on both Pedro and the seasoned researcher,
who had now become another witness of this incredible case. But the surprises were not
over: When they both looked toward the east they noticed what looked like a �black dot�
the size of a soccer ball approaching rapidly from the sea shore.
Meanwhile the two other kids they had left at the bar joined them in time to observe
the dark �ball� which kept moving toward them at a preternatural speed. As it got nearer,
the witnesses saw how its shape started to change; its trajectory became more erratic,
at times looking as if it was floating above the ground, and at others as if it was being
�yanked� or �dragged� by an invisible force.
The group continued to observe the mesmerizing vision, until they finally realized the incoming
dark mass was actually a human figure; though its legs were moving so fast they were a mere
blur. When the �sprinter� was just 60 meters
away from the witnesses, it stopped. It was a woman! She was standing in front of the
group very close to the water age, and without any warning she removed the upper portion
of her clothes to reveal her female curves, and started walking toward the Roche cape,
faraway in the west. And when she had put some distance between herself and the astonished
group, these observed yet another figure who joined her and watched the two individuals
lose themselves in the night. According to their later calculations given
the apparent size of the figure from their position, the strange female had managed to
traverse a distance of 4 kilometers in around 45 seconds; something impossible to achieve
even with a land vehicle. Not to mention the woman didn�t raise a tremendous wake of
sand while racing through the beach, nor even make any discernible noise.
Had that been the same man and woman Borrego L�pez and Pedro had tried to pursue? Or
were they an additional element to this absurd stage play, intended to distract the witnesses
the same way the ten-foot-tall giant had done on the night of September 29th, when it showed
itself floating inches above the ground while the couple of changelings were making their
move toward the anonymity of the Conil streets? Whatever the case, the only thing Borrego
L�pez could do was analyze the footprints left by the (original) couple before they
vanished. While the tracks made by the woman were very light and faintly discernible, the
man�s were very profound; so much so that Borrego L�pez estimated the individual had
to weigh more than 100 kilograms. The size and shape were consistent with the ones found
by the youngsters on the night of the 29th, not only in their unusual shape and monstrous
size, but also due to the fact the researcher found tracks hinting how whomever made them,
had been apparently making strange swirls as if going in circles �movements unobserved
by neither Borrego L�pez nor Pedro, the same way the original witnesses had watched
the couple walk straight toward the town, yet they later found a great number of large
footprints going in different directions. After the �circles�, only one set of footprints
was detectable� and it went straight into the water.
It was close to midnight when Borrego L�pez confirmed there were no more tracks to be
found in a 100-meter radius, and with that he was ready to call it a night. While he
was advising his young acquaintances not to reveal to anyone what had transpired that
night, Pedro suddenly yelled �here they come!�. Sure enough, the enigmatic couple
was making yet another uncalled-for appearance right in front of the witnesses. One of the
boys was (finally!) carrying a super-8 film camera and began recording the seemingly hurried
movements of the couple as they passed by. The man looked straight into Borrego L�pez�s
with cold, unfriendly eyes. His face was very pale. The woman on the other hand was stunningly
beautiful, and she seemed to have somewhat oriental features, with her eyes slanted slightly
at the edges and glimpsing at the gathering of witnesses with an expression of animosity
or nervousness. The seasoned UFO hunter noticed both their clothes were completely dry, which
ran counter to the evidence of the tracks heading into the sea.
The witnesses never dared to address the couple. They just kept staring at them until, for
the second time, they reached the streets of Conil and were lost out of sight. They
didn�t return that night, nor any other subsequent night.
When they revealed the Super-8 film, nothing appeared on screen. �Convenient� would
say the hardcore skeptic; �customary� would reply the experienced Fortean, who knows
fully well these sort of things happen all the time.
The Epilogue Our tale has basically come to an end, which
doesn�t mean the UFO activity in the area fully ceased; Ben�tez reveals other interesting
incidents near Conil during that time of 1989 in his book La Quinta Columna �including
the observation of another giant being by a local artisan on the morning on September
22nd. Further confirming the supposition made by few people in the UFO field �including
yours truly� that high strangeness events almost never happen in isolation; rather,
it seems the �energy� conducing to these manifestations slowly increases, until a final
dramatic �crisis� unfolds. And if someone needs further confirmation
that the year 1989 was exceptionally �charged� with high strangeness, we but need to remind
our dear Coppertops of another remarkable close encounter report, which happened just
two days before the Conil case: I�m talking of course about the landing in the Russian
city of Voronezh, where children and other witnesses interacted with giant humanoids
and robotic entities.
Which begs the question: Why does the phenomenon chooses to manifest so prominently in places
like Voronezh, or in Conil de la Frontera? The Conclusion
In the comic book world, the Marvels mini-series created by Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross holds
a prominent place because it managed to show all the familiar stories of the Marvel super-heroes
from a fresh new perspective: That of the human bystanders, who are forced to observe
their actions and epic battles of these god-like beings from a safe distance, not fully understanding
their motives or even what�s really going on.
When I think of the Conil case, I feel it is a similar situation. Because this amazing
story is far more suggestive by what it doesn�t reveal, than by what it actually does. The
testimony of the main witnesses feels like broken pieces of a larger puzzle, hinting
to a bigger tapestry of events that took place covertly in that placid beach town of C�diz,
which we will probably never fully understand. Comparing Conil with a comic book story may
look like a cheap literary trick on my behalf, yet it you think about it there are MANY aspects
of this close encounter that seem almost plucked out of a pulp novel or a Sci-Fi B-movie. Forget
about the grotesque appearance of the male �changeling�, which we already equated
to that of the extraterrestrial invaders in This Island Earth (1955) or how the ten-foot-tall
giant is slightly reminiscent of Gort in the classic The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
�at least in the sense of how it seems to serve as a �protector� of the couple,
by distracting the attention of the witnesses away from them. Consider also how there�s
this strong link between the humanoids� ability to transform themselves into a human
form, and the ability of the extraterrestrial visitor portrayed by Jeff Bridges in the 1984
movie Starman to do the same thing �and do you remember the main form of �technology�
shown by this alien? That�s right: small metallic spheres which glowed with a blue
light. Sound familiar?
Make no mistake, my dear Coppertops: Those who read the previous paragraph as an attempt
to shoot down the case on my part, should do well to grab a copy of Jeffrey Kripal�s
book Mutants & Mystics. Kripal is a scholar of comparative religious studies at Rice University,
and rather than being skeptic on the subject of UFOs and paranormal phenomena �his last
book was co-authored with Whitley Strieber� he points out there�s an undeniable �cross-pollination�
between these type of events and the pop culture we consume in our literature, television and
films; to the point that trying to play �chicken-and-the-egg� between fantasy tales and paranormal cases
becomes a rather tricky proposition� Because the truth of the matter is that stories
of paranormal agencies infiltrating our world in human guise have existed way before the
existence of Sci-Fi movies, or even cinematography. In fact, such folklore goes back centuries
�if not millennia� into the dawn of Time. Oxford scholar W.Y. Evans-Wentz managed to
gather the remnants of the belief in the Fey folk in his seminal book The Fairy Faith in
Celtic Countries (1911), and talked to a lot of honest, hard-working country folk who still
believed �or had actually interacted� with these elusive beings who from time to
time chose to meddle in the affairs of men: �They are able to appear in different forms.
One once appeared to me, and seemed only four feet high, and stoutly built. He said �I
am bigger than I appear to you know. We can make the old young, the big small, the small
big.� The Celtic peasants also believed lakes and
bodies of water acted as �bridges� or conduits in which the transmutation from the
human to the fairy state took place. But if that is the case� couldn�t the OPPOSITE
be also possible? Could water be a medium by which liminal beings could get entrance
into our world? Both Evans-Wentz and Guillermo Del Toro would probably concur�
When you boil them down to their bare essence, and you stop the bickering caused by either
trying to validate or debunk a given case, the true main difference between fictional
stories and factual close encounters is that Fiction HAS TO MAKE SENSE. A novel or movie
plot needs to have a core of consistency in order to make all the elements fall into place.
Finding sense in the events that took place in Conil on the night of September 29th is
practically impossible: If what Juan Jos� Ben�tez reveals in La Quinta Columna concerning
the military radar station which remained inoperable during those days is true, then
it would hint the beings making their appearance at the Bateles Beach wanted to perform their
infiltration activities covertly, away from the eyes of the Spanish government; yet if
that is the case, then WHY choose a tourist town, instead of a more remote location? WHY
suffer the presence of pesky human interlopers near them? WHY was Pedro Gonz�lez the only
one in the group who could see the giant at first? WHY perform their shape-shifting spectacle
lying down on a beach, instead of the safety of their own �craft� (if that is what
the �red moon� observed by the witnesses was)? WHY the imperfect transformation, which
still rendered the male with such abnormal-looking facial features? WHY the incapacity to cover
the unusual shape and size of their tracks? �And WHY O WHY the need to reappear in front
of the witnesses not once, but twice?? These are just a few of the open questions
left by the Conil case. How one chooses to approach them tells more about one�s personal
opinion about the UFO phenomenon, than about what really happened on that fateful night.
In a polarizing world demanding to view things as either �black� or �white�, I personally
feel this case was always meant to remain �gray�. I consider the actions allegedly
performed by the entities manifesting at Conil de la Frontera as *deliberately* absurd; like
a well-crafted act enacted for the benefit of the young witnesses, who also had a part
to perform in this play, even if they didn�t know it or were capable or comprehend it.
The high strangeness of this encounter is both equally suggestive of non-human intervention,
while at the same time being sufficiently devoid of enough concrete evidence so that
almost 30 years after the story broke, it sadly remains scarcely known outside the Spanish-speaking
UFO community. �We want you to believe in us,� said one
of the UFOnauts who abducted patrolman Herbert Schirmer in 1967, �� but not too much.�
If the tall blond who left those inhuman footprints on the Bateles beach had ever opened his mouth
and talked to the witnesses, he might have said similar words. Just as it was in 1989,
his cold eyes remain an open question hinting at answers that could be not just incomprehensible�
but also deeply unsettling.
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