← Back to letters04/29/18 document (which may only be a report of the complete header masked) seems to have been added to the document after photocopying: the characters are sharper. This letter appears to be a magnificent support for sociopsychological testing on the analytical and logical capacities of Earthlings. And on the acceptance of unverifiable data! Just like the letter from Antonio Pardo. Note that this document is not of Ummo origin! It was produced by an Earthling in connection with the Ummo file. Dear Sir: I consider a preliminary presentation inevitable (although in this first contact I ask you to excuse the omission of my name for obvious reasons). I hold a Medical Doctorate and am currently a Chair at the faculty in Madrid. On the 8th of this month, I received a visit from a young man, a Certified Public Accountant (Translator's Note: "Perito Mercantil" in Spanish), with whom I have kept a series of very singular contacts during this period. The young man invoked a series of reasons that seemed sufficiently convincing for me to write this long letter and to deliver eight additional copies to other gentlemen just as unknown to me as you. The exceptional nature of this subject requires me to refer you to certain past facts. At least those that, without violating the secrecy I have imposed on myself for obvious reasons, I can tell you. On December 18, 1965, an unknown person called me at my home. As our servant found the phrases heard unintelligible, my wife took the receiver and they expressed the desire to speak with me (I was not at home at the time). A comparable call was repeated that same night, around 11 o'clock. A repetition of incoherent words (It was later that I understood their meaning) prompted me to hang up the phone in annoyance. It was not the first time some of my students had amused themselves by bothering us at unreasonable hours. But on December 19, the same individual renewed his call. This time, with an indefinite foreign accent, but articulating perfectly in Castilian, he correctly introduced himself in terms that led me to suspect he was a colleague. To begin with, he made no reference to his nationality. He wanted to discuss a supposed discovery concerning the function of the Goll and Burdach Bundles and some side effects caused by the half-section of the Spinal Cord, namely: the Brown-Séquard Syndrome. (Translator's Note: The encyclopedic control of these two references is entirely consistent with the context: they exist and are relevant. It should be noted that "Brown-Séquard" is the name of only one researcher.) His point of view seemed so suggestive that, after a pleasant dialogue that lasted without exaggeration for a good hour, I courteously invited him to come for tea with me the following day. Not only did he refuse, but his reaction truly astonished me. So much so that, with a noticeable lack of courtesy on my part, I abruptly hung up the phone. My interlocutor informed me with disconcerting naturalness that he had come from a planet distant from us by no less than fourteen years, and called by him something like "Umo". The incident left me perplexed, and I tried to imagine a consistent explanation for the behavior of my supposed colleague. Having ruled out the hypothesis of a prankster student (Due to the exceptional erudition he had demonstrated on such a vast subject as Neurophysiology) one could assume that either he...
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