The Roses Radar Base Encounter

In 1971, at the Ava IV radar base near the Bay of Roses on the Spanish coast, guard dogs grew agitated before guards reported a golden-yellow disc above the antennas that shot out to sea. Following a green beam of light, they said they came upon a pale blond figure, roughly seven feet tall, in a metallic suit, and opened fire. By their account the figure retreated, and a section of the inner fence was afterwards found disintegrated with scorched edges while the outer fence stood intact.

What is on the record

The archive resolves five named claimants on a single reporting channel, and it holds one video. The accounts build a sequence. Two nights after the first encounter, personnel on base described a light hovering for several minutes, and on 29 March two Phantom jets were said to approach the object before all three accelerated away. The source describes around sixty base personnel present for that mass sighting; the archive resolves five claimants. A later telling has two American servicemen and a Spanish Air Force officer questioning witnesses separately, telling them to forget what they saw, and photographing each man against a white wall with a violet flash, the case then sealed as a 'reserved matter'.

There is a pointed gap for a case set at a radar station. Radar operators are among the witnesses, and describe a reddish-gold ovoid rising and turning at a right angle over the bay, but the account states it never appeared on radar and that no radar record was officially acknowledged. So the setting offers instruments without an instrument trace in the file. No documents accompany the entry.

Why it sits where it does

Roses grades L3, the independent-witness tier, carried by several claimants describing one connected episode on a single channel. It holds no government paperwork and no authenticated sensor data, which keeps it from climbing higher. What the guards confronted at the fence is not resolved here.