Southwest / Gerena, Spn being encounter — November 1978

During a hunting outing near La Pizana estate southwest of Gerena, four men reportedly saw colored lights among eucalyptus trees near the Guadiamar River. Ignacio Darnaude’s investigation places the outing across the night of 24–25 November 1978, around 3:30 a.m.; abbreviated catalogs retain November alone. A fifth member of the party had already returned to their car. Manuel Gordillo and Francisco López Rivero approached most closely. They described an object resembling an inverted earthenware jar, about 4–5 meters wide and 3 meters high, with a red top light and rows of multicolored lights around its middle. Nearby stood a heavy-built figure exceeding roughly 2 meters, wearing silvery clothing, thick boots and a bulky black rounded helmet with a face opening. Vegetation obscured parts of its upper body. The figure made muffled, indistinct sounds, moved toward them and then returned toward the object. The men fled. They did not clearly see a doorway being used or witness the object’s departure. A later site visit found marks after intervening rain, but their origin could not securely establish a landing. Darnaude recorded interviews and witness-assisted drawings, providing more detail than the ledger’s compressed reference to a helmeted man and jug-shaped craft.