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extra-terrestrial beings who telephoned him at his home and offered to send him reports on technical subjects to be indicated to them by him, Senor Villagrasa. Then, a few days later, Villagrasa would receive by post the report for which he had asked, typewritten on folio size sheets, each page bearing a curious seal marked with a thumbprint and showing an H-shaped form with curving arms with a shorter vertical bar intersecting the horizontal bar of the H. In fact it resembled the alchemical symbol for Uranus. And thus it was that I came in contact with the disconcerting, irritating, and mysterious business of UMMO, which is still going on(in-75), and which I am still very far from having "got to the bottom of." But let us take it as it developed. + a . . e Gradually I began to gather together the various parts of what was to become a complicated puzzle, and before me there arose this initial picture of the problem: since about 1965, 50 it appeared, a group of some twenty or so persons, the majority of whom lived in Madrid, with one in Valencia, two in Barcelona, and possibly one more in Bilban, had been receiving the enigmatic "Ummo reports" through the post. From what my valued friend and collaborator Rafael Farriols and I could ascertain, this group turned out to be a cross-section of the population of Spain, in which were represented people who for the most part were engaged in liberal activities: a well-known playwright, an engineer, a young lady employed in the American Embassy, an official of the Telegraph Department known for his interest in extraterrestrial studies, a lawyer, etc. Subsequently Rafael Farriols and I myself also received communications from Ummo. The San Jose' de Valderas UFO photographs Rafael Farriols and I investigated in due course some UFO sightings which occurred in Madrid on February 6, 1966, and June 10, 1967, and which would eventually result in our book, written in collaboration and entitled Un Caso Perfecto. The disconcerting thing about it all was that, several days beforehand, the mysterious "gentlemen from Ummo" had announced to three of their Madrid correspondents the arrival of the machine scheduled for June 10, 1967, and even gave, with striking accuracy, the geographical coordinates for the spot where it would land. About forty people, present at a gathering in the Gafr' Leo'n, where they were wont to meet to hear Professor Fernando Sesma, President of the Society of the Friends of Space, gave their written confirmations that, on the evening before the day on which the landing took place, they had already read the announcement of its forthcoming arrival. 12