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THE UMMO LETTERS: ET CONTACT OR HOAX? UMMO THE LETTERS: CONTACT Hoax? Nearly 40 years after a select few people in Spain started receiving letters allegedly from ETs visiting from the planet Ummo, the controversy continues but no hoax has yet been satisfactorily proven. PAIN, mid-1960s — Some people start receiving letters with strange contents. The authors introduce themselves as ETs, but add that they should not be believed; they pretend to have been studying our civilisation for a decade, and wish to com- municate with a selected group of individuals in order to give information about themselves, without disrupting our social network. They require that the information should remain within restricted circles. Hoax or encounter of the third kind? Some say the story is not over... The Ummo file, or Ummo case, as sometimes referred to, is one such that arouses either dismissal with a condescending snigger or incentive to plunge into it and wind up gasping for fresh air. Suffocation is a real risk, as there are more than 1,400 original typewritten pages (a total of 3,850 pages which the Ummites declare having sent throughout the Earth) of technical descriptions, scientific, psychological, philosophic or spiritual devel- opments, with drawings and calculations. Thousands of sheets have been sent to different countries, to isolated addressees, chosen on mysterious criteria. The whole thing has been on for nearly 40 years, and might still be going. According to the "Ummophiles'" constel- lation, the real story has not been written—despite claims, comments and conclusions from distinguished ufologists, for whom this is obviously a hoax. For what else could it be but a hoax? Common sense is essentially reassuring here. However, things are not so simple. If the Ummo story is to be considered only from a sociological point of view, its real interest remains unnoticed. And what makes this story so interesting is certainly not the paranoia, mythomania or mere excitement conferred on it by its alleged alien origin, but the actual content of the letters. Today the known texts are on the Internet, and what better place is there to remain unnoticed—because they do not wish to be believed. Yes, they are here among us, like an X-Files episode, but they do not wish to disrupt our already so heterogeneous and disturbed social network with a massive announcement, the "proof" of their presence. The problem is that this argument goes back to the 1960s, and many are weary of waiting for contact. Surely enough, we did not make much progress, and our inclination for "inter-destruction", as they might call it, is still marked, meaning war and all forms of violence and coercion. That is why, according to some people, they are still around: task forces taking turns, with maybe fewer individuals, but continuing their studies of Earth's humanity and communicating on a sporadic basis with some "chosen" persons. The risk is indeed high that the latter might consider themselves "chosen". Who would not be glad to have a "nice" ET contact, even through correspondence? CONTENT AND TONE OF THE LETTERS If the letters’ content is so "enthralling", though not to everyone's mind, their form plays a major part. The style is indeed near hypnotic with its impersonality, its descriptive dull- ness, absence of affection, feeling and humour, with apparently absurd twists and turns used to describe some object or concept which we refer to with a single word. In short, the form is undoubtedly exotic, but could be simulated. However, the letters seem extremely rich in information, dealing in the same cold and rational tone with hygiene on planet Ummo, with their conception of the multidimensional multi-universe, including its non-elementary particles, and even with what we call God. We already have a lot of ideas on this issue, but Theirs are still more elaborate! Indeed, the Ummites appear to be ahead of us, considering a comparison of our evolu- tionary cycles. They are human beings as well, and not some kind of demigods, they say. by Joss Morisson © 2003 English translation from French by Joss Morisson Email: morisson@club-internet.fr Ummo website: http://www.ummo-sciences.org English translation from French by Joss Morisson Ummo website: http://www.ummo-sciences.org NEXUS +57 by Joss Morisson © 2003 Email: morisson@club-internet.fr FEBRUARY — MARCH 2004 www.nexusmagazine.com