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them. searchers. 98 REVELATIONS imminent contact with a superior civilization among those who receive Not only do they receive the documents, but they duplicate them, they annotate them, they index them, and they compile lexicons and dictionaries. In 1985 Colonel Wendelle Stevens, a retired U.S. Air Force officer, translated and published many of these documents in book form, while the volume compiled on the subject by Ribera and Farriols went through several hardcover and paperback editions in Spain, an indication of the growing fascination with the topic among UFO re- The letters are generally composed of six to ten typewritten single- spaced pages with diagrams and occasional equations. Each page is marked in a corner with the symbol of the Aluche saucer. At first the addressees were primarily Spanish-speaking UFO believers, but the UMMO mailing list soon expanded to cover French researchers like Aime Michel and those of other countries as well. I received my first UMM0O letter in May 1981 in Palo Alto. It was postmarked Flushing, New York, and it bore two dollars worth of stamps, ten times the required amount. It contained a statement that had already been widely circulated in Spanish and in French, beginning with the words: "We are aware of the transcendence of what we are about to tell you ..." It must be acknowledged that, in contrast with the utterly boring streams of extraterrestrial platitudes we are used to receiving from the channels, the contactees, and assorted ascended masters, the UMMO revelations are refreshingly specific and consistent. For instance, when a French physicist, Dr. Teyssandier, examined the more "scientific" UMMO documents in November 1969, he reached the conclusion that the mathematics used were internally consistent and assumed a numeri- cal system of base 12. The author had to have at least a basic college education in science. The physical data regarding the alleged planet UMM0O were also consistent. For instance, the acceleration of gravity on a given planet can be derived in two ways, either from its radius or from its mass, and the results found by both methods are in agreement. The author had not picked some numbers at random. However, there is a problem with the star IUMMA, which is sup-