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The day of the appointment, the flat was full. All were handing a list of questions they wished to ask to the travellers of the planet UMMO. Rafael Farriols was also there. Good technician, he equipped by hazard the phone with a mike connected to a tape. When you hear the tape they recorded this day, you can first hear the voice of the Spaniard, who tells his story with passion. Then the phone rings. He took the headphone, and said more slowly: Here they are. Farriols recorded then a monotonic voice, nasal, which says. - Que sus hermanos reunidos en su domicilio no formulen preguntas. Suplicamos perdon, senor, disconecto la communication. Translation : - The people joined in your flat should not ask any questions. Please excuse us, sir, I cut the communication. Of course, any joker could have done that, pinching his nose. In the seventies, Antonio Ribera gave me a copy of the recording, and I let it analysed in the laboratory for phonetics of my University, in Aix-en-Provence. From these short message has been made a sonogram. In the abscissa, horizontally, the time. Vertically the frequency. It is the way of analysing voices or sounds, human parole or bird singing. The specialist in charge on this analysis told me: - This is not a human voice. Look at the frequencies, they are quite stable in time. We call it "recto tono". The frequency spectrum is quite flexible, and a man can't keep stable frequencies when he pronounces vowels. Here, this yo4d The person who made these sounds has a relatively rigid pharynx. Or may be it is a human voice transcoded by a "vocoder". I don't think vocoder were existing at the time when this voice has been aro Por ree) ce .a4e eas recorded. Let's add, that the frequency spectrum was matching with the information given by the Ummits about their quite primitive phonation organ. The UMMO affair is full of such peculiar details ( and I will tell about all of In one of the reports, the authors speak about a phone conversation they had with a certain Theodore T. Polk, in Pittsburgh. He asked him why they call our 83 This sentence is repeated three times. constancy is very remarkable. them in this book). Let's speak now about some other aspects.