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STRIP TEASE THE 97 perfect. But it worked well enough for many investigators in Spain to drop everything to concentrate on UMMO, setting aside their research into genuine UFO cases. The Toulouse analysis should have put an end to the Strip Tease. Indeed, the Alien Emperor had no clothes! But the human mind does not work that way. Ignoring the clear evidence that some individual or group had planned the whole crude scenario, the believers escalated their credulity into an obsession: the sightings at San Jose de Valderas, Aluche, and Santa Monica were proof that we had been visited by extraterrestrials. Perhaps they were still here, among us, willing to teach us their advanced science and their superior philosophy. The movement started by these believers became a cult that is still thriving and expanding today—a cult with some fascinating characteris- tics which make it worthy of a continuing investigation. DOCUMENTS It is a matter of conjecture when the first UMMO documents were received by the believers. According to Ribera, the arrival of the space- ship had been announced prior to the Santa Monica landing to three people in Madrid: Fernando Sesma, Enrique Villagrasa, and Alicia Araujo, the latter an employee at the U.S. Embassy. Fernando Sesma, it should be noted, was president of the Society of Space Visitors founded in 1954, and had the reputation of being a credulous mystic. Born in 1908, he once invented a cabalistic language, and he became the first Spanish contactee, playing a role similar to George Adamski in the United States. The documents, which are mailed from places as diverse as Australia or Czechoslovakia, cover a wide range of scientific, social, and political subjects. They purport to come from UMMO, a planet revolving around the star IUMMA, located 14.6 light years away from our sun. The unique aspect of the Strip Tease case that has kept it alive far beyond the validity of the physical and photographic evidence is the extraordinary nature of the documents that accompany the belief in the sightings, give them transcendent meaning, and promote a feeling of