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down) was in his car, not far from there with his wife Carmela. Naturally curious, he went on the site and found the engineer Villagrassa, completely disappointed with many cameras hanging on his neck. - I knew they would come... - You knew what ? asked Farriols (pictured above). Villagrassa told him the whole story that Farriols found very amusing, so that he decided to join the group of "the happy Whale", which was very shocked. Rafael wanted to know more and try baught the documents owned by Sesma. As he was very rich (he was the director of a Plexiglas factory in Barcelona) he was ready to give a big amount of money for this acquisition. But Sesma got rid of his whole documents for a ridiculous sum, as if they were burning his fingers and ceased to showe any interest for this UMMO affair, preferring to limit his contacts with "Martians" and "Venusians". Ribera gave a copy of all letters he personally received to a priest, the father Guerrero, a fanatic esoterist. As the news of the landing came to the public, the religious man became completely mad and began to speak to all journalist he met. - An extraterrestrian colony is living in an underground cave, in the Sierra of Gredos, nearby Madrid. The Ummits went into panic and left Spain immediatly. If father Guerrero would not have revealed every thing the whole story would have kept the confidentiality wanted by the authors of the letters till the beginning. The landing affair would have been one more case in the swamp of UFO cases. 77 The newspapers said in this occasion: