Papers d'Ovnis - 1a epoca - No 17-18

Magazine Overview

Title: Papers d'OVNIS
Issue: Número 17-18
Date: Mayo-Junio 1995
Publisher: Centre d'Estudis Interplanetaris
Content: This issue is a special compilation, serving as a general index of all numbers of the influential ufology magazine "Stendek" and its special edition "Stendek 1". It covers the 25-year period from June 1970 to June 1995.

Presentation: An Useful Instrument: The Stendek Index

The issue begins with a presentation by Joan Crexell, highlighting the 25th anniversary of the first "Stendek" publication in June 1994. Crexell emphasizes Stendek's significance as a milestone in Iberian ufology, becoming an obligatory reference for all investigations into the UFO phenomenon. The creation of this comprehensive index is presented as a means to facilitate quick and efficient consultation of the magazine's extensive content.

Crexell recounts the origins of Stendek, noting that it was a project initiated by a group of young researchers within the CEI (Centre d'Estudis Interplanetaris), founded in 1968. This initiative was undertaken independently of the CEI's board, who initially expressed doubts about the publication's viability. Despite these reservations, Stendek not only survived but thrived, becoming a leading voice in Iberian ufology and gaining international recognition as one of the best world magazines on the UFO phenomenon. The article notes the 'passion' for UFOs prevalent at the time of Stendek's inception, a passion that has since waned.

Summary of Stendek's Content

The summary outlines the structure of the Stendek index, which is divided into several categories:

• Cover: A review of the magazine as a landmark publication.
• Presentation: An introduction to the Stendek index.
• Stendek Index: This is the core of the issue, detailing: 1. Cases from the Iberian Peninsula, Balearic Islands, and Canary Islands (pp. 3-5). 2. Cases from the rest of the world (pp. 5-6). 3. Historical cases (p. 7). 4. Studies and investigations (pp. 7-10). 5. Miscellany: People, books, magazines, centers, congresses, and various topics (pp. 10-11). 6. Editorials (p. 11). 7. Numbers and directors (p. 11).
• American Comic about the 'Stendek' case (p. 12).

The publication also includes a disclaimer stating that the CEI does not necessarily share the opinions expressed within the magazine.

Detailed Index of Stendek Cases and Articles

The bulk of the issue is dedicated to the exhaustive index, meticulously listing articles and cases published in Stendek. The index is organized by geographical region and type of content:

1. Cases from the Iberian Peninsula, Balearic Islands, and Canary Islands

This section lists numerous specific cases, often with dates, locations, and contributing authors. Examples include:

• A UFO penetrating a room in Logroño (June 1972).
• A UFO landing in Las Arrubias, Navarra (November 1969).
• Footprints in Morón de la Frontera (May 1970).
• A UFO observation at Pantano Gabriel y Galán (March 1970).
• A luminous rectangle in Cazalla de la Sierra (August 1970).
• An encounter near Sant Feliu de Codines (September 1967).
• A submarine object near Alcocebre (July 1970).
• Strange footprints on a beach in Sancti Petri (February 1970).
• UFO observations in Catalonia (February 1971).
• The strange luminous phenomenon in Zamora (August 1970).
• UFO observation at Manises Air Base (September 1971).
• A possible UFO landing in Matadepera (January 1969).
• Photos of a supposed UFO in San José de Valderas (June 1967).
• Strange beings in L'Escala, Girona (September 1968).
• UFO photos from Lérida (February 1972).
• A landing in Puente de Herrera, Valladolid (August 1970).
• A landing in Torroja del Priorat (January 1961).
• UFO observation near Islas Medes (July 1973).
• A false UFO in Galicia (June 1973).
• UFO evolutions near Muñotello, Ávila (September 1967).
• UFO observation in the Gironès region (February 1974).
• A luminous phenomenon in Can Amat (August 1973).
• A UFO in Artés (March 1974).
• A UFO between trees in Almoster (March 1974).
• A UFO pursuit over 65 km (April 1974).
• An adventure in Salamanca (March 1974).
• A landing in Cuenca (May 1974).
• The Planoles phenomenon (December 1973).
• The 'tractors' of Cervià (July 1972).
• A case from Burgos (January 1975).
• UFOs in the Canary Islands (August-December 1974).
• A UFO in Castilla la Vieja (October 1974).
• UFO activity in Albesa (May-June 1974).
• The Feliciano Vidal case in Bunyol (July 1975).
• An encounter at sea in Cudillero (October 1973).
• A tractorist case in Valladolid (July 1975).
• Unidentified lights near the ground in Granada (January 1976).
• The exceptional landing in Benacazón (January 1976).
• UFO observations in Huesca (April 1976).
• A near-landing in Caños de Meca (August 1974).
• A Type I case in the Canary Islands (June 1976).
• The phenomenon of Vandellòs (March 1975).
• A triple landing in Lujua (October 1976).
• UFO sightings in Álava and Navarra (April-May 1975, March 1976).
• A landing in Altos de Gainchurizqueta (December 1954).
• A case of a pursued young woman in Yurre, Vizcaya (July 1976).
• Observation of a mysterious flying object in Arrabal, Logroño (December 1976).
• Observations of Aluche and San José de Valderas, and the UMMO affair.
• Strange beings in Almonaster la Real, Huelva (August 1977).
• A UFO landing field in Gallarta (February-March 1977).
• UFO observations in Mañeru, Navarra (February 1976).
• UFO photo in Sanlúcar la Mayor, Seville (March 1975).
• A multiple case in the Valencian Community, Murcia, Andalusia, Melilla (December 1976).
• A car pursued between Villamarchante and Chiva, Valencia (February 1977).
• A pendular sphere over Olivares, Seville (November 1977).
• A Type I case in Valdehúncar, Cáceres (March 1978).
• A landing in Marchena (February 1978).
• Night observation in Guipúzcoa (September 1977).
• A terrible UFO night in Gerena (August 1973).
• Report on the UFO seen in La Vecilla, León (August 1978).
• Important UFO observations in Logroño, Álava, and Navarra (July-September 1978).
• A landing in Cogolludo, Guadalajara (August 1977).
• A Type I case near Pastrana, Guadalajara (August 1978).
• A Type I case in Arroes, Asturias (August 1978).
• What happened around Tamames? (February 1979).
• A landing case in Montequinto (July 1947).
• A humanoid near Gerena (November 1978).
• Pursued by a UFO for 90 minutes near Vinaroz (April 1977).
• The Miguel Herrero Sierra case: analysis of a contact (December 1977).
• The 'inaudito' meteor case in Cullera (August 1971).
• A Type I case in Ibiza (March 1977).
• The supposed UFO of Navalmoral de la Mata, Cáceres (September 1978).
• Abundant observations in Castile and Basque Country (November 1978 - May 1979).
• A recurring UFO over Campo de Arañuelo, Cáceres (August 1978).
• Study of two photographs of the two moons of Barcelona (January 1978).
• UFO near Riaño, León (December 1978).
• Sighting in San Juan de la Peña, Huesca (May 1977).
• Strange beings near Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz (May 1960).
• A UFO landing inside a gunpowder depot in Talavera de la Reina (December 1976).
• The landing of Sangonera la Verde (July 1979).
• A possible 'III Contact' with gustatory sensation (Jaraba, October 1978).

2. Cases from the Rest of the World

This section details international UFO cases:

• A UFO in a Canadian hospital.
• Two Brazilians injured by luminous flashes from a UFO.
• UFOs at sea in France.
• A UFO photographed in Bogotá, Colombia.
• Seven years of UFOs in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.
• A flying saucer sighting in Argentina.
• New contributions to the Suárez Marzal case.
• A horse becomes ill after a UFO incident in Canada.
• The 'terneiro arrebatado' case in Brazil.
• The strange case of Arroyo Hondo, Dominican Republic.
• The Junín case in Argentina.
• A sub-contact in Argentina.
• The Brunelli-Porchietto incident: a teleportation? in Argentina.
• The 1972 Oleada in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.
• The Venus castaway in the Dominican Republic.
• Mysterious beam of light causes a death in Brazil.
• Luminous lights in the skies of Bruges, Belgium.
• Argentina: case of Calle.
• Puente Herrera 1970 - San Francisco Solano 1965.
• The captain Cayne's strange experience.
• Argentina: anthropomorphic phenomena in San Isabel.
• The mysterious ball from Florida.
• The UFO of Les Vosges, France.
• The Pascagoula case (USA).
• An oval structure illuminates Moedling, Austria.
• The 1974 Oleada in the Caribbean.
• UFO observations in Roussillon, France.
• The acrobatic humanoid of Vilborde, Belgium.
• The Díaz case in Argentina.
• The photos of Cluj, Romania.
• UFO encounter in Mexico.
• A landing in Tolosa, Argentina.
• UFOs and mysterious animal deaths in Puerto Rico.
• UFO Oleada in the United States.
• Photos of Barra da Tijuca, Brazil.
• The Travis Walton case (USA).
• UFOs in Greece.
• Isla de la Trinidad: a case with photographs validated by the Brazilian Government.
• The Erich Kaiser photo (Austria).
• The Trancas case, Tucumán, Argentina (October 1963).
• Photographic case (USA).
• Report on the repair of a UFO in New Berlin, New York, USA (November 1964).
• The UFO of Putre, Chile.
• A fantastic experience in Argentina.
• McMinville photographic case (USA).
• The Dr X case (France).
• Regarding the Bermuda Triangle.
• The humanoid of Quebradillas, Puerto Rico.
• Argentina: the surprising night of Huaco.
• Abduction in Stanford (USA).
• A UFO ray freezes a tree in Mexico.
• Mini-Oleada in Mexico.
• Landing and footprints in Delphos, Kansas, USA (November 1971).
• Report from the Dominican Republic.
• The Gary Wilcox prediction (USA).
• The strange case of Falcon Lake, Manitoba, Canada (May 1967).
• UFO photos from Impameri, Brazil (May 1966) and Mesa, USA (November 1972).
• The 'Llanca' affair: the great fraud.
• Type I case in San Juan, Argentina.
• UFO photo in Calgary, Alberta, Canada (July 1967).
• Aveyron, France, 1966-1967.
• Observations in Russia in 1977.
• A landing in Toluca, Mexico.
• The 'La Dulce' incident, Argentina.
• The beings of Los Ríos, Dominican Republic.
• Niotti photo case (Argentina).
• What happened in the Champaqui case, Argentina?
• A UFO landing in Mendoza, Argentina.
• A UFO of American manufacture (Chile).
• An anomalous aerial object over Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• Investigation in Cergy, France.
• Encounter in Un Buen Consejo, Puerto Rico.
• UFOs over the Argentine sky.
• Mysterious luminous phenomena in Neuquén, Argentina.
• The complex case of Imjärvi, Finland 1970.
• A luminous ball caused loss of consciousness in Puerto Rico.
• Strange light over the Andros Patria (Atlantic Ocean).
• A very special extraterrestrial (USA).

3. Historical Cases

This section delves into historical accounts related to UFO phenomena:

• 'Foo-fighters' in 14th-century Catalonia.
• UFOs in the Barcelona sky throughout the 15th to 18th centuries.
• A journey to Magonia: the fear of Navalón.
• A prodigious serpent seen in 19th-century France.
• Goethe cites a meteor observation.
• Did Jacobo Casanova observe a UFO?
• 'Prodigies' during the conquest of America.

4. Studies and Investigations

This section covers analytical and research-oriented articles:

• Investigation into UFO landings in the Iberian Peninsula.
• Provisional report of 53 possible UFO observation cases in the Iberian Peninsula during 1950.
• Study of 100 UFO landings in the Iberian Peninsula.
• Critical considerations on the UFO classification established by Dr. Vallée.
• 'The Extraterrestrials'.
• UFO activity in relation to weekday nights.
• Sociology of Iberian landings.
• UFO activity in relation to days of the week.
• Statistical notes on the 1950 Oleada in Spain and Portugal.
• Possible ambiguities about UFOs.
• 'Reading an ancient chronicle'.
• 'Pre-Columbian UFOs in the Antilles?'
• Prodigies and divine interventions by holy angels in Catalonia.
• Mobile light over the Asturian ground around 1900.
• Extraterrestrials in prehistoric paintings.
• Ancient chronicles (Cifuentes 1694).
• 'Meteor in Orne in the 11th year of the French Republic'.
• The strange bas-relief of El Casar, Cáceres.
• A Sputnik in Montalcino, Italy.
• 'Tours year 583'.
• 'The Martian hypothesis'.
• Propulsion systems.
• Registry of Spanish negative landings.
• Quantification of the Hourly Law.
• UFO epigraphy.
• Regarding the UMMO issue.
• On the 1974 Iberian Oleada.
• 'Strangeza-Credibility' Test.
• Process analysis of UFO directions.
• Application of Pearson's X2 Test to the Iberian Oleada (1974).
• UFOs: the 'psychic' component of Dr. Jacques Vallée.
• Cybernetics and UFOs.
• Correlations between geomagnetic disturbances and UFO reports.
• UFOs and magnetism in Puerto Rico.
• Amplification of the essay on 1950.
• Constants of landing trace reports.
• 'UFOs: in search of an interpretation'.
• 'The validity of drawing technique as a communication element for UFO reality'.
• Statistical provisional report of UFO cases in the Dominican Republic.
• Observable data of an anomalous aerial phenomenon.
• 'Should we change the current approach to Ufology?'
• 'On the name of the discipline that studies UFOs'.
• Science and UFOs.
• Analysis of the hourly distribution of Spanish observations.
• 'Operation OVNI'.
• UFOs... 'those lights'.
• Experimental lie detector.
• 'Those who are and those who are not'.
• Paralysis: the tree that hides the forest.
• Paralysis and close encounters with UFOs.
• Massive observations of luminous objects.
• Updated census of Iberian landings.
• The 'mimetic' character of UFOs.
• Regarding the absence of close-up UFO photos.
• The success of counter-surveys of old cases.
• 'U.F.O., O.V.N.I. or ovni?'
• UFOs: museum ships?
• Fundamental characteristics of the UFO phenomenon in Spain.
• Real and imaginary abductions.
• Detection of the UFO phenomenon in France.
• Approximation to the UFO casuistry in the Valencian Community.
• On frauds, 'repeaters', and other things.
• Other countries, other magazines.
• Psychic component and UFO report.
• 'The little humanoid beings'.
• The Moon and 'invisible UFOs'.
• A question scientists ask themselves.
• 'Our condemned facts archive'.

5. Miscellany

This section includes various topics:

• Impressions of a trip to Mexico.
• Passing of the President of GEPA.
• Dr. McDonald has died.
• The letter from Dr. McDonald to U-Thant.
• Passing of Eduardo Buelta, co-founder and first President of the CEI.
• 'Who's Who' entries for David Saunders, J. Allen Hynek, V. J. Ballester Olmos, David M. Jacobs, Jacques Vallée, Ted Phillips Jr., Miguel Guasp, David G. López, Félix Ares de Blas, José-Tomás Ramírez y Barberó, Albert Adell, Miguel Peyró García, and Antoni Ribera.
• Dr. Jacques Vallée in Spain.
• Dr. J. Allen Hynek: the man, the scientist, the ufologist.
• (See 30, 1: Oscar Rey Brea in Editorials).
• Books, magazines...
• Regarding the title.
• List of UFO books published in the Iberian Peninsula.
• 'UFO Magazines Worldwide'.
• 'New UFO book publications'.
• 'New publications' from V. Juan Ballester Olmos.
• 'Encounters in the Third Kind': contact (the film).
• 'They are... scientific approximation to UFOs' by Stendek-CEI.
• 'Analysis of the 1968-1969 Oleada' by Félix Ares de Blas and David G. López.
• 'UFOs and Science' by Oscar A. Galíndez.
• 'On 'flying saucers, 'repeaters', and other things' by Luis R. González.
• 'Other countries, other magazines' by Luis R. González.
• 'Psychic component and UFO report' by Juan Gascón.
• 'The little humanoid beings' by Angel Alberto Díaz.
• 'The Moon and the "invisible UFOs"' by V. J. Ballester Olmos.
• 'A question scientists ask themselves' by Jacques Scornaux.
• 'Our condemned facts archive' by Albert Adell.
• 'Passport to Magonia' by Jacques Vallée, reviewed by Joan Crexell.
• 'What Governments Hide About Flying Saucers' by 'Observer'.
• 'UFOs, Reality or Fiction' by Henry Durrant.
• 'Memories of the Future and Return to the Stars' by Erich Von Däniken.
• 'UFOs: the landing phenomenon' by V. J. Ballester Olmos.
• 'UFOs? Yes, but...' by Miguel Peyró.
• 'Hynek Report' by Albert Adell.
• 'UFO Manifesto' by Sebastián Robiou Lamarche.
• 'UFOs and Science' by V. J. Ballester Olmos.
• 'UFOs and their occupants' by Roberto E. Banchs.
• 'Messengers of Deception' by Jacques Vallée.
• (See 27, 1 in Editorials).
• Centers, Congresses...
• National UFO meeting in Madrid (May 1971).
• General Assembly of the CEI (1971).
• Federation of Northern Spain Centers.
• Ballester Olmos discusses the CEI situation.
• New Board of Directors of the CEI (1974).
• UFO Centers Worldwide.
• First UFO Phenomenon Course by Grupo Charles Fort (November 1974).
• UFO meeting in Zamora (December 1974).

6. Editorials

This section lists editorials by various authors, including:

• Albert Adell on the crisis affecting ufology.
• Antoni Aparicio.
• V. J. Ballester Olmos on disinformation, the film 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind', and the CEI's activities.
• J. M. Casas-Huguet on subjective elements in UFO study and the CEI's activities.
• Joan Crexell.
• Oscar A. Galíndez on primacies versus objectivity.
• Màrius Lleget.
• Manel Manén.
• Lluís Marí.
• Pere Redon on the CEI's activities, the national UFO data bank, and the UMMO issue.
• Josep Serra.
• María del Carmen Tamayo on the crisis and the passing of Oscar Rey Brea.
• Unnamed editorials on the formation of the Stendek Consulting Council and reflections on UMMO.

7. Numbers and Directors of Stendek

This section provides a chronological list of Stendek issues from No. 1 (June 1970) to No. 46 (December 1981), along with the directors: Joan Crexell (Issues 1-23) and Pere Redon (Issues 24-46).

Colofón

The CEI expresses gratitude to all UFO researchers who collaborated selflessly to make Stendek a reality, noting that over its twelve-year run, Stendek published 2,056 pages on the UFO topic.

Recurring Themes and Editorial Stance

The recurring themes throughout the indexed articles and editorials of Stendek are the detailed investigation of UFO sightings and landings, analysis of their characteristics, and the sociological and scientific implications of the phenomenon. There is a strong emphasis on empirical data, case studies, and statistical analysis, particularly concerning events within the Iberian Peninsula. The editorial stance, as reflected in the presentation and editorials, is one of dedicated research, a commitment to advancing the field of ufology, and a willingness to pursue independent initiatives despite potential institutional resistance. The publication aimed to be a comprehensive and reliable resource for researchers and enthusiasts alike, documenting the history and evolution of UFO investigations in Spain and beyond.