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14. Scene changes to the picnic ground at San Jose de Valderas, near Santa Monica where many picnickers are trying to escape the heat of that day in the late afternoon shade. Suddenly the groups of people are stirred by the approach of a strange circular aircraft of completely unknown disc-shaped design. It is huge, some 70 feet in diameter and displays a large peculiar emblem on the lower surface of the ship. The symbol is like a styalized "H" with curved arms and another vertical bar in the middle, more specifically )+(. Two separate spectators in the crowd have cameras and begin shooting pictures. Others scramble for their cameras and more are believed to have been taken as the object passed fairly close, in full view of everyone on the park. The large ship made an approaching curve toward the witnesses and then curved away again and descended and apparently landed beyond some trees obscuring the further view. Then a few moments later it took off again and flew away. The big ship had landed on the Santa Monica convent grounds, where the witnesses found tripod landing marks pressed into the ground. They also discovered some some mysterious metal objects of small size, like the ones deployed in the neighborhood of the typist's house the night the Ummites stayed there. These may have been some kind of area surveillance sonde. At least two sets of black and white photographs have been identified with that sighting. The two photographers were in different group locations, unacquainted with each other, using different cameras, with different rolls of film, slightly different exposures, with different film processing in different locations and unknown to each other. One of these sets of pictures came to attention when the photographer took it to be developed, and pictures of the ship were published in the newspaper the following day. The second photographer, seeing the pictures in the paper got in touch with researchers anonymously and gave them two of his photographs. None of the other photographers ever came to attention if they got pictures too. This event is reported in great detail in the book THE PERFECT CASE by Antonio Ribera and Rafael Farriols. 15. The scene shifts again to the cafe Leon near San Jose de Valderas, where Professor Fernando Sesma Manzano is meeting with some 30 friends and acquaintances who had been advised by letter in advance and were aware that the UMMO pick-up was going to be made, and were there to witness it. Unfortunately for them the landing took place a few kilometers away at the picnic area and they missed the event until spectators arrived at the restaurant excitedly describing the event. Thirty six persons present with Sesma signed the back of his copy the letter from the Ummites advising him of the anticipated pickup which they had calculated would take place near the zone of 28