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planet OYAGAA, what they were translating "planet of the square". Next, a part of their reports, devoted to this affair. - We knew the existence of your planet by receiving a radio emission, in 1949 (Earth time). We knew afterwards, that it had been emitted during some short communication try, from a trawler based at Bergen, in Norway. The message took fifteen years before reaching UMMO, distant of fifteen light years from Earth. It was emitted in 1934. By increasing the frequency of your radio emitters, the electromagnetic waves could then cross the gas layers of the Earth atmosphere. On UMMO we have big antennas flying in orbit around our planet. The received message was short : few ten seconds. Immediately, we admitted it was coming from intelligent beings, what surprised us a lot, as usually, life is not appearing around stars like your sun, with a gaseous envelope of a temperature of about six thousands degrees. Our sun Iumma, is colder: five thousand five hundred degrees only, and this is a general condition for all the inhabited planet we know. Immediately we decided to send a first mission in direction of your planetary system. We tried without success to decipher your message, which was the alternation of long and short signals. At the end, one of us suggested that you tried to send us a theorem on the square. This is the reason why we call your planet the "planet of the square", which has evidently no thing to do with the real content of the message, as we understood years later. But the name stayed. Reading these lines, I had the idea to localise Polk, in the United-States. This was not so easy, but I succeeded, thanks to friend living in Chicago. He was no more living in Pittsburgh, but in a suburb called Export. I called him on the phone. - Himself. - Mister Theodore T. Polk ? - Yes it's me. - My call will surprise you, no doubts. Iam a French scientist and I call you to ask you if you did not received some phone calls, in the sixties, of people pretending to come from another planet ? - What a funny idea !?! - Let's change the question, have you received at this period calls from persons who had some difficulties to speak, with duck-voices ? - No. 84 - Hello mister Polk ?