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happened exceeds anything that one can imagine. You recall in my last letter I told you my story which, if it were told to many people, they would think I was crazy, but you know them and can understand me. Even my wife, who up to a few days ago was quite sceptical and thought they were spies (you know already that when a women gets something into her head, she doesn't reason and there is no one who can convince her with arguments), has had to give in before the evidence and what has been happening, because now maybe people who don't know anything about this are right in not believing it, but we who have lived it, and I think I have lived through more of it than you, would have to be crazy not to admit the facts. During the months since I wrote you, more things have happened. Do you remember the proposition we made to this gentleman to whom they were writing a great deal and who is a professor of medicine, who is skeptical and doesn't even think they come from UMMO (although I suppose he may have changed his opinion now)? Well, on their return they learned about this and got rather angry; they forbade us from going on with planning the meeting, indicating that they would cut off all contact with us if we did continue, and giving as a reason that we had promised to keep the affair secret. I went to visit the doctor and he received me in a state of worry about the matter. He told me that everything was very strange and confused (I don't see it as confused and even less so now). He told me he admitted that the events were quite extraordinary and that he maintained a correspondence with another doctor in North America with whom they (Ummites) were also corresponding and that, yes, he believed they were extra-terrestrials, but that he could not admit it because he said it was absurd ("absurd" he may think it, but no one can convince me now of the contrary), and that he thought it was some commission from some state for purposes unknown to us (why look for problems where there are none? So this gentleman may be a professor and very intelligent, but some things, if they don't believe them, have to be ex-plained more logically, but giving no explanation is even the more absurd). Anyway he recognized that they were exceptional strangers with erudition and procedures unknown in medicine. And he recognized that he owed them a lot and that the gentlemanly attitude would be to comply with their request and not call a meeting of everybody we know personally by letter or telephone as we had then planned. The wife of this professor, who was with us (because I always went with my wife) also felt that 44