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STRIP TEASE crying. 1990 115 for two weeks to allow people to record it. Some of the callers were PARIS, FRANCE, JUNE There are now three generations of UMMO "researchers," observed French investigative journalists Martine Castello and Isabelle Blanc on their return from a research trip to Spain in 1990. The old-timers like Antonio Ribera are as puzzled as ever. The second generation are sociologists and psychologists who look upon the whole thing as modern mythology. Periodically people come forward and claim that they have uncovered the perpetrator of the UMMO hoax, but they never prove anything. As in the case of MJ-12, there is no smoking typewriter! The third generation is young and naive. It has neither the long-term background in ufology of experienced researchers like Ribera, nor the healthy scientific skepticism of the sociologists. They start from scratch and they believe anything that comes along. A disquieting possibility, under serious investigation by some French authorities, is that UMMO is linked to an Eastern bloc intelligence agency specialized in scientific espionage. "The idea is not as farfetched as it may seem at first sight," a French specialist told me. "Setting up such a group could have the effect of channeling a lot of grass-root UFO information, some of it very private, toward the leaders of the group. But more importantly, it could help them acquire valuable, confidential insight into current scientific re- search ideas in Western laboratories." Indeed, the UMMO documents contain a large amount of scientific- sounding revelations on high-tech subjects as varied as physiology, computer science, and astrophysics. These papers have attracted the attention, not to say the fascination, of some researchers, notably in Spain and in France, who have become involved in the inner circle of the sect. It is no great secret, for instance, that French physicist Jean- Pierre Petit, author of some theories about magneto-hydrodynamics