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STRIP TEASE ‘ | ac gaxrarrah log O¢evsnr Ww ch (QAC Typical UMMO message received by the author. Qarraereh Beusnr “ae Mo, 99 Nous vous présentons nos respectueux hommages posed to be located at 12 hours 31 minutes of right ascension and 9 degrees 18 minutes of declination. This would place it squarely in a region of great transparency, near the Galactic North Pole, which is free from hydrogen clouds. Therefore, IUMMA should be visible to us as a fifth-magnitude star, easily seen with the naked eye. The documents claim that the star is hidden by absorbing matter, an assertion that does not make much sense. The UMMO technology is without major surprises, and it matches the kind of clever extrapolations one finds in any good science-fiction novel of the last forty years. The computers of UMMO, for instance, about which I was asked to review many pages of documentation, may have seemed advanced by the standards of the equipment available in Spain in the Sixties, but they are downright primitive by state-of-the-art