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coming off the ship and that all his brothers had received orders to leave the other countries they were in and to group themselves in Brazil, Bolivia and Spain. I asked him whether they would be coming back and he said he did not even know for sure if they were leaving. I asked him if she would know, or whether she was expecting orders on reaching the ships, and he said it was not necessary to wait for the ships in order to learn the orders (they call the ships OAUELEA UEBA OEMM). He said she knew but was not accustomed to giving explanations to her subordinates. He said that just in case, he himself would dictate a few more reports so that in case they left I could send them to certain people on definite dates. (In fact he gave me three more reports to type for three people living in Paris and Lyon, written in French.) The next day, Sunday, YU One returned in the afternoon without her companion but accompanied by ASOO 3 and another man unknown to me, very young, and who did not speak Spanish either (or did not wish to speak it). They gave me some little packages to mail and an envelope for me, asking that I not open it, although ASOO 3 asked me when we were alone to keep my identity secret whatever happened, for if they returned to Earth, I and another gentleman were their only contacts in Spain. YU I took leave of us Thesday morning, saying that they would not be sleeping any more in our house, that they would spend the night on the outskirts of Madrid. DEI 98 came to pick her up and they entered a taxi whose number I wrote down. We hated to see them go. I haven't seen them since. [Tuesday was the 30th of May. They were picked up the evening, 1. june.] From newspapers I learned that the ship arrived. In one of the papers they even had photographs of it. All wednesday night my wife and I were walking about in the area of the Casa de Campo y Arguelles because they told us the landing was most probable in wednesday rather than Thursday. On Thursday we were in University City (La Ciudad Universitaria) until eleven at night and, since we weren't seeing anything, dead for sleep, we retired. The following afternoon we found out about it in the daily newspaper PUEBLO and bought all the afternoon papers to look for news. We also called ....... (sic) by phone but there was no answer. For some time now I had had no doubt about them, but this experience, in case any doubt were left, finally convinced me and my wife. I didn't know if I was dreaming. If it weren't for you who were receiving their letters, and also my wife, who has now met them, and my brother-in-law, and the news reports in the newspapers, I would have thought I was crazy. This was the greatest experience of my life, and if it weren't for their having asked me to use 52