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episode. standard. them! 100 REVELATIONS Silicon Valley standards. There is an ingenious twist to the construction of the spacecraft used by UMMO, which are self-repairing in case of collision with asteroids, but the very concept of space travel implied in such a technology barely reaches the level of the average Star Trek We are also given an insight into the philosophy of UMMO. It is a version of Kant's view of the world, mixed with a puritanical attitude toward morality and a fascination with gadgetry that seems surprising in an advanced galactic civilization. In summary, the UMMO beings have an outlook strikingly close to the average middle-class American By 1970 Ribera and Farriols had collected no less than six hundred pages of documents, some of which announced forthcoming landings and requested the recipients not to reveal the contents to government authorities. One letter expressed UMMO's sorrow at the deaths of Bertrand Russell, Gandhi, Pope John XXII, Martin Luther King, Albert Schweitzer, and Leon Tolstoy, who are said to be great men acting for mankind's true progress—in case we had failed to notice It is tempting to dismiss all these documents as childish fakes, but they are clearly more than that. They have just the appropriate amount of misspellings and awkward style to suggest that they were written by beings who did not have complete command of human languages; the kinds of beings who would be so anxious to communicate with me that they would put ten times the required value in stamps on an envelope, a very flattering attention indeed! The alleged revelations, if they con- tain no great surprises, are clever and occasionally stimulating. They could have been produced by a person with a graduate degree in physics and a good acquaintance with biology, especially if that person had access to international meetings where extrapolations and avant-garde ideas are often debated ten or fifteen years before they become reality in scientific magazines. A science journalist, a government engineer working on advanced projects, or a frustrated writer could match the psychological profile of the UMMO author. Those Spanish investiga- tors who have not lost all critical abilities in the face of the UMMO