"Ummo Letter 607"

To our respectable friends: Two of our brothers and I have just returned to Spain. Our trip aimed to retrieve the equipment, that is, the geological study devices, documentation, typewriters, and artisanal samples. We could not stay longer for security reasons. One of our brothers remains, waiting for his departure to a South American country. That is all we can say about our recent stay in Spain. Please excuse any typographical errors in this or previous letters. We have not had access to a machine built in your country; moreover, we relied on a cordial Earth collaborator born in Latin America. We have sufficient reports on the meeting held in Barcelona for you Spaniards. We confess that we feared you might adopt, out of zeal, a panegyric position which, although understandable, would be detrimental to the progress of our contacts with you. We will act according to the dates still available to us. The level of balanced objectivity has greatly reassured us. We do not seek to offend the remaining organizers but wish to specify that special congratulations are due to Farriols Calvo Rafael and Nordlin Franz Hiltrud. Thanks to our friends for this demonstration of impartiality. As always, we reiterate that you should see us as an uncertain group, vested only with a purely anecdotal value, and not at all compromise your prestige by defending our identity. We beg you to kindly excuse this period of silence. We need this precautionary period until we have confirmed the harmlessness of the consequences of this meeting. We will promptly resume sending these ongoing reports, addressed to your brothers Messrs. Dominguez Juan and Farriols Rafael. We plan further shipments to Messrs. Gil Antonio, Martinez Joaquin, and other of your brothers. It is possible that we may provide some interesting report if one of your brothers could travel to London, as we have found that almost all letters are intercepted when sent via the international postal channel. If one of your brothers could travel between September 26 and October 8, we will entrust him with this information without risk of interception (via internal postal service in London). We can also give it to him if he goes to Stockholm or Malmo between September 21 and October 23. The message we entrust to you must be kept until January 20, 1974, and if we have not returned to Earth by then, it will be opened and made known to the interested brothers. All my brothers will leave the Earth between October 29 and November 15. The probability of return is 65.14 percent. This document has been given to a brother of Australian nationality and to a brother of Canadian nationality. We also wish to give it to a brother of Spanish nationality and to a brother of Indian nationality. If a member of the Eridani group travels, he must write to 605 / 1373. Mr. Borel, Hotel Imporial, 22 Royal Street, Compiegne (Oise), in an envelope that will not bear any name and address of the sender or a false address, a sheet of paper will be inserted specifying the name of your brother who is traveling for this purpose. It is essential that he moves (London, Stockholm, Malmö) on the dates of stay, without writing down the place of residence. Additionally, remember a key number that we will provide six days prior to your brother Dionsisio Garrido or to your brother Jorge Barrenechea. Receive our warm symbol of friendship. 606 / 1373 Esteemed friends: I wish to inform you urgently that our collaborator is in Madrid, and we have instructed him to bring at this moment the document we wish to deliver to you, for security reasons, in another European capital. In this way we avoid the inconveniences inherent in a too long journey. You will understand that otherwise the delivery would be difficult without going through the international postal channel, which offers us no guarantee. At this moment, while I am in Spain, we can send each of you one of the documents we have (four in total) into the hands of the Earth’s men, based on a common text providing independent specific information. There is nothing to do but wait for our notes before December 1, our collaborator has received instructions even though we will not meet with you. Only in a grave case, where he attempts unsuccessfully to make the delivery, for reasons of force, will this same collaborator then become the definitive custodian. That which we will deliver, in the contrary case, must be kept hidden until the date agreed upon with him. We do not wish to cause you any concern at all. The document summarizes a series of points that we present to the experts of planet Earth in case we leave it.