← Back to lettersDear Sir:
The truth is I do not have the pleasure of knowing you personally, and if I dare to write to you on behalf of my wife and myself, it is because of what I am about to tell you: I am enclosing an envelope with part of a letter addressed to you, accompanied by an additional letter directed to my wife. You will see that I took the liberty of cutting out the destination with a blade, and I also took the liberty, albeit incorrectly and at my own responsibility, of cutting part of your letter, and there is an explanation for that which I will explain later.
The letter, we ultimately received from Zimbabwe, which, as you know, is an African country. It arrived in my name, although one of the internal letters is in my wife's name as I mentioned. This letter is like others we have received from those gentlemen, who since we have known them, identify themselves as extraterrestrials from a planet they call Ummo, and I will briefly recount the story as we know it.
My sister-in-law, my wife’s sister, has been living abroad for years, even before my marriage. She is highly educated, a tenured professor at a university, and in September 1980, she fell ill while the doctors diagnosed her with a malignant tumor in the stomach. As the doctors recommended immediate surgery, this did not sit well with my sister-in-law, and she decided to go to the United States to see a renowned doctor in Los Angeles, who nevertheless diagnosed the same illness and also recommended swift surgery. Imagine the state of mind we were in; my wife had already prepared for the trip, although I, during those days, could not accompany her due to my work.
My sister-in-law had, before her illness, published an article in a magazine about the origins of Life thousands of years ago, and one day she received a telephone call. It was a reader of the magazine speaking in a nasal voice, who made observations about the published text. My sister-in-law said she was astonished by this gentleman's in-depth knowledge and invited him to her home. This happened a few months before her illness. At least before the doctors told her what she was suffering from. The gentleman declined [to come] but promised to write. What was my sister-in-law’s astonishment when, upon receiving the first letter, she found there was also a very extensive document on the scientific theme related to the famous article; however, this was not the strangest part. What caught her attention was that the signer identified himself as a traveler from an extraterrestrial planet.
Naturally, it was a joke or it was the act of a madman, and that did not align with the seriousness of the study he had sent her and with the intelligence he had shown in the phone conversation. I don’t want to tire you with the rest of the story, but I will add that after speaking several times with him (my sister-in-law always avoided referencing the Ummo affair in her phone conversations), the sad visit to the doctor occurred and the radiographic evidence of the tumor. One evening when she was distressed, this gentleman called again. And she told him everything while crying. And what was her astonishment when he replied that in reality, he had the powers to heal her. As for my sister-in-law, she never asked him for anything, as she took him for a biologist, not a doctor. She only recounted what the doctors had told her and how depressed she was about it.
On the other hand, the gentleman kept apologizing, saying that on one hand, he had such scientific healing powers, but that he probably could not use them for whatever risk there might be. Everything thus remained as it was. My sister-in-law and her husband went to the United States, determined to confirm the diagnosis, and then returned home. I believe it was the same day or the next (it doesn’t matter) when they did cardiac tests on my sister-in-law for the operation, the same gentleman called her and told her: Ask for more proof. Don’t let them intervene because you are healed. Certainly, two or three days earlier, she had felt that the pain had ceased, but she attributed that to the painkillers. She returned to the clinic where the doctors refused to believe it, but all the tests were negative. For months she was under observation to see if there were any metastases, but to this day... You will understand that we are very grateful to these gentlemen, whoever they are.
My sister asked them to write to my wife and thus we received letters from them. I suffer from a Duodenal Ulcer, and during a call from them from Albacete, my wife took it upon herself to beg them to do something for me. They also gave excuses; however, I did not have the luck of my sister-in-law. In truth, it seems I was in a period of improvement, but the x-rays continued to show the ulcer and the pain, although nothing acute persisted. In any case, what they did for my sister-in-law, we will never forget. They asked us for great discretion and that we not publish the letters. And we have remained faithful to their request.
A year ago, we saw a book in a bookstore that talked about the Ummo affair, a book written by the author Antonio Ribera, which I advise you to read (although just now we asked for another copy and were told it was sold out). They had it at the Espasa Calpe Bookstore on Gran Via. Of course, it is a great Enigma. They called us a few times when they were here in Spain. Once they told my wife that they were calling from Albacete, but naturally, that is impossible to verify. More than once we were tempted to call Mr. Ribera, the author of this book. Moreover, last year there was a meeting at a Higher College, and my wife received a letter to attend this meeting, which would deal with this affair.
Well, now: Our viewpoint is that it would be absurd to believe they are extraterrestrials. They must give themselves that label not to lie, but to protect or camouflage themselves. Perhaps it is a group of Doctors who have discovered new treatment methods and that Official Medicine, which has so many interests, pursues them. This is a hypothesis, but if you think about it, it is not so absurd. For that, they would have to secretly seek patients to experiment on. But there is something else that concerns us. They are very politicized. One notices that they have an immense hatred for the United States, and although they also speak ill of Russia, they do not approach the antipathy they feel for the other country. And this concerns us because their letters are sometimes explosive and we have burned a few because they contained information that could certainly provoke the displeasure of being found by the Police.
That is why I told you at the beginning of the Letter that my wife and I hesitated between sending you this letter and separating part of it. On one hand, we are very grateful to them, and we will not betray them with a denunciation. On the other hand, you will understand that they do very things strange. Why don't they write to you directly since they have your address perfectly? Don't they understand that they compromise us, my wife and me? If what they say in the letter about the United States Government and the Plane from Korea, and Lebanon, and the trip of President D. Felipe Gonzalez to the United States is false, it serves no purpose for us to have cut the letter under our responsibility. If all this story about weapons and the intrigues of the United States is true, understand that it is compromising for us to be intermediaries. Because in the end and in conclusion, WE DO NOT KNOW THEM nor do we know the real purpose these gentlemen are pursuing.
It is true that in the case of an investigation by the Authorities, we could ultimately prove our innocence. But in the meantime, we could suffer serious harm. For this, we are contemplating carefully whether to send you this letter as they requested or not. If we do not do it, it would be as if we were appropriating a letter that does not belong to us, but is addressed to you. If we send it to you intact, I don't know what legal responsibilities we might incur in the event of an investigation by the Authorities. Understand our situation, D. Juan. It is therefore clear that this is a very irregular situation. They had a very easy solution: Send this letter in your name from Zimbabwe. Why all the mystery and so many instructions that my family and I would be the ones acting as messengers? To compromise us in something very serious?
Our gratitude to these gentlemen, who have otherwise done great good for my family, which we are ready to proclaim very loudly, must have a limit, and I believe this limit has been exceeded when they asked us for something that their consciences concealed from us. Let’s go: if it’s about maintaining the discretion they are asking for, and that you speak with them, I respectfully ask you on behalf of my wife and myself to let them know that we were unable to fully comply with their instructions. It has been a while since they established any telephone communications with my wife. This is understandable if they were in Africa, but observe that on the other hand they say in the letter to you that they have controlled the phone of another gentleman. Is this not a rare contradiction? How can one control a conversation in Spain from Africa...?
I do not wish to tire you as my letter is already too long. I truly regret that my letter is anonymous. It is not my habit to write anonymously nor to consider it noble not to sign. It is the circumstances that prevent me from doing so... If it were not so, believe me, D. Juan, that my wife and I would have an extreme pleasure in visiting you to show you the letters we have from these gentlemen and discuss this enigma. Don't forget to look for the book from Ummo that I recommend to you. In case you do not find it, you could look for it in a public library. It is a key element to penetrate this enigma. The author must know much more. Imagine furthermore the tergiversations of these gentlemen. They asked us to give you the letter while it is addressed to Don Rafael Farriols, whom we assume is one of your friends (his name does not appear in the Telephone Directory, unlike yours). Inside the envelope, they asked us on another sheet to take the letter to your concierge... Doesn’t it seem to you that it is excessive mystery and excessive detours to deliver a letter, no matter how important it might be?
I want to take the opportunity to greet you very attentively on behalf of this household.
N.N.
Lettre Ummite#871