← Back to lettersTranslation of the caption of the bottom photo: Original of the Ummo sign, embossed in high relief under great pressure on the mortar at the place where – according to F. Eguizabal’s investigations – "the extraterrestrials" camped that night. (Note by J.P.: nothing supports the "great pressure"! This photo [unverifiable, since its supposed author could neither be located nor found] is different from the one taken by Farriols. It has the same value as those of the supposed "tubes" of Santa Monica. Items “to convince,” but not conclusive.)
A photocopy that I keep with me (written by the same agents of the Oummo group) presents a strange explanation of the reasons that led them to address, among others, precisely one of these latter, don Fernando Sesma, a Spaniard who combines his facile speech and pleasant dialectic with a constellation of delirious ideas. Thus, the hermetic secrecy jealously guarded for some years in other countries was broken by the understandable exhibitionist eagerness of a gentleman who is perhaps the least authorized to present a coherent version of this very strange case. His own circle members assured me that, in the few months in which he received pages and pages with descriptions of a scientific nature (and although their intellectual level could be verified as very inferior to that of other similar documents), the famous Professor Sesma, in one of his feverish lectures, declared that everything related to Oummo seemed to him a fraud and that is why he preferred to remain with his other fantastic "extraterrestrials," who, according to his version, transformed into cats and butterflies. In a word: he excluded from his mental schemes a supposed "civilization" because the "professor" did not understand the mathematical formulas nor the electrical circuits in those pages, and because the Oummites did not speak in their texts of magical numbers or of exotic alien beings who lay eggs.
Another very important thing in my eyes could provide proof: a few days before the passage through the locality of San José de Valderas and the strange landing near the current Rancho-Restaurant "El Caney" of a peculiar circular craft on the base of which the famous Oummo sign could be distinguished, and which the Spanish writer Antonio Ribera describes in his works, some Spanish citizens, among whom was the aforementioned Mr. Sesma, received a mysterious notification in which, besides a brief description of the vehicle, a probable date for its appearance and an area of a few kilometers radius on which such a craft should land were given. The document expressed some veiled threats in case the authorities of the air command intercepted the vehicle. It was in front of more than thirty people that the text was read. Among them were graduates, engineers, and government officials, who signed on the back to acknowledge prior receipt. A discreet silence was maintained until the moment when the press of the Spanish capital made the version presented by hundreds of witnesses known on June 2, 1967.
An interrogator asked me when it was confirmed that all this had happened as I recount. How did the signatories not rush to explore the area at those dates? However, that is precisely what some of them did, the least skeptical among them. A certain don Joaquin Martinez, whom I have not been able to locate, roamed the surroundings of the city equipped with cameras; others wandered along nearby roads without excessive enthusiasm, thinking this time that the anonymous letter was the product of an unbalanced person. The vast extent of the described area and the apathy joined with the lack of a coherent exploration plan made those attending this historic meeting incapable of seizing what was a scarcely renewable opportunity. It was then that the ineffable Mr. Sesma opened Pandora’s box and unfolded before public opinion all the mystery of the agents of Oummo, with the help of a book crudely published and even more poorly written in which the author mixes his naive and mediocre comments with the less interesting and more superficial paragraphs of the Oummain texts that came into his hands. It must be said in his favor that in the writings delivered to him one observes a style and a scientific character of limited value to correspond to the low intellectual standard of the people who usually form his circle. The contrast with other copies that I possess is obvious. (The photographed page that I am sending you corresponds to a monograph that was received in Monterrey, Mexico, on October 7, 1964). The seal which 889 / 1373 and 29/04/18 was printed at the bottom with a dark, yellowish ink. But according to what has been so often mentioned, Sesma, although he did not seem very happy among some messages that translated strange physical units in their official version of millibars, ergs, and microvolts, and even managed to refute them as fraudulent, remained among the few informed specialists in Spain and South America as the 'discoverer' of Oummo. History has already accustomed us to these trivialities. (S-E23-4)
On page 4, only the last 16 lines in the left column are translated. The left box 'No. 611' is the copy of the letter from Fouere to Ribera (?) referenced E24. The right box 'No. 613' is the copy of the letter from Sesma to the magazine '2001' referenced E25. 890 / 1373
I regret being in disagreement with some of my former compatriots who claim such a title. I do not deny the possibility that someone received strange letters in this country prior to Mexico, but the evidence I possess indicates at the moment that this is not the case. In a future article, I will present my particular hypothesis regarding the origin of these esoteric communicators. My trip to Spain clarified many ideas about them. It is unfortunate that my explorations around the 'El Caney' Ranch were not very fruitful. The passage of time must have erased any possible trace of the landing. Only a blurry printed anagram on the walls of a ruined structure (see the photograph) could provide some imperceptible clue. Did they camp there that night? All we can assert is that the perspective of this matter is saturated with doubts, contradictions, and is protected by a wall of silence that the initiates guard jealously. 891 / 1373
Lettre Ummite#891