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would be impossible to ingest yours. We had some apparatus to record pictures and sounds, geologic probes as well as some devices to prepare our defence. This setup was completed with a whole set for making numerous measurements on the floor of your planet. We ignored all the detection devices and remote control you may own. We had recorded your decimetric waves 20 and we knew that those could be used to localise us. In case where we would not have been detected during our landing, we had the order of building an underground observatory and to start from there the study of your planet. It was impossible for us to foresee the way the situation would evolve, and which point the observation of the psychological and social structure of Earth would reach. The three vessels composing the vanguard fleet , with each twelve passengers on board, materialised them selves at 7338 meters high over the chosen landing snd site, in a semi wild region, this means were people rarely go, but where we could, with good optical instruments observed the behaviour and habits of the inhabitants of a peaceful city in the south of France. They performed their descent night, the 24th of March 1950, at four in the morning, with a quite cloudy weather. The infrared cameras gave a first picture of the surroundings. No human beings could be detected. We checked the floor looking for eventual underground habitations, but this test was negative. The feet of our vessels took contact with the stony floor and the six expeditionaries went out through some trap- door to take contact with the floor of this planet. We immediately began to dig a gallery by melting the stone and transmuting it into nitrogen and oxygen. In the same time some parts of the materials found there have been transmuted to transformed in extensible arch structure made of magnesium and aluminium. But this activity was requiring quite a lot of energy. Along the time, as our work went on, the clouds went away and the sun began to rise. We were worried by the idea that the natives could have detected to some distances the steam clouds going up. Happily no inhabitants of the region noticed anything, and in the morning our work was achieved. Some food supplies were stored in the refuge, giving an autonomy of one year, and those who went back home said goodbye to our six brothers who would then live on this unknown planet. The chief of our expedition, with 36 persons, remained anxious. He was 99