Analysis by Mr. "Jean Pollion" of the quotation from the newspaper "LE FIGARO" in letter D57-4, in which the Ummites relate their first days on Earth. You can find the original study in French here.

 

The quotation from "Le Figaro" in the "First days on Earth" (D57)

 

© Jean Pollion March 2003 - 15/03/03

 

The Ummite documents contain a great deal of information. The authors declare that they have introduced some false data so as not to give too much credit to their assertions.

 

Some information is clearly unverifiable, at least with our present research techniques.

 

Other information seems open to checking.

 

The best impression of the credibility of the UMMO dossier will be obtained from the greatest number of rigorous checks of the data set out in the available Ummite documents.

 

Among the many elements open to investigation that have not yet been the subject of publication, I have chosen the references to a French newspaper of 1950.

 

In the narration of the first days on Earth of the first UMMO expeditionaries (T1 B- 1 to 33, published by Aguirre in II-I-1 to II-I-49), the Ummites mention a newspaper found near their "underground shelter", soiled with human excrement.

 

Partial copy of the original.

 

(Image 1)

 

(U-C Note: There follows the translation of the above text into French, which, logically, we omit)

 

Data acquisition.

 

In December 2002 I contacted the archive service of the newspaper Le Figaro, from which I ordered photocopies of pages 1, 2 and 6 of Saturday-Sunday 25-26 March 1950. I received photocopies which, although not of great quality, are nevertheless usable.

 

After the normal work of locating the information and checking it, I found that certain information had been correctly transcribed by the Ummites, but that other information did not match. The sources were solid (the newspaper's own archives), so I put my conclusions online on the ummo-sciences site at the beginning of January 2003.

 

A few days later Eric Boisset, browsing, came across the site. Interested in the Ummo affair, and having had in his hands an original of the Figaro of the day indicated, he immediately assured me that the "real" newspaper was not the one whose photocopies I had put online.

 

A mystery was being born.

 

Eric Boisset and I compared our information, and this time I went to Paris, to the archive service itself, to put the problem to them and get an answer to our question.

 

There is no mystery.

 

The big newspapers of the time (1950) produced several editions a day, especially at weekends, which is the case in our investigation. There was even a specialized, lighter edition sent as reading matter distributed on long-haul flights, obviously still without in-flight films.

 

The copy of which I first had the photocopy was the 5 o'clock (in the morning) edition, which can be checked in image 2, a little to the left under the letter F of the title LE FIGARO.

 

(Image 2)

 

Analysis of the newspaper.

 

Let us take up the interesting passage of the letter (my comments in blue):

 

"This copy, famous for us, which was the first printed document we managed to obtain, corresponds to an issue of the Newspaper published in the French language "LE FIGARO" Samedi Dimanche 25-26 Mars 1950"

 

The strange characters left our brothers perplexed. The most tantalizing and suggestive thing about that strange item was the drawings and photographs. This last sentence singularly clarifies the following paragraphs, in particular the relation to the two illustrations mentioned. (We of course did not know the naive technique of Direct and Line Photoengraving). I note in passing with what discretion, but with what effectiveness, earthly technology is assessed by the authors: the "naive" technique of photoengraving. Reference is made here to belinography, a sort of forerunner of telecopying exclusively for photographs, invented at the beginning of the 20th century by Edouard Belin.

 

J. Sennep

 

On the page later identified as the first there appeared precisely a curious cartoon signed by a French humorist, J. Sennep. It was a sketch of a Hydrogen Nuclear Bomb on whose warhead appeared the caricature of a French Politician. The caption read:

 

BATAILLES PARLEMENTAIRES

 

S'ils nous embêtent, nous avons la bombe H

 

See image 3 (the drawing is strictly identical in the day edition)

 

(image 3)

 

We note that if the author of the letter did not himself have the newspaper page in his hands, he had a very faithful and detailed account of the drawing. The Ummite text cites J. Sennep. Neither the name of the cartoonist nor even his initial appears in the printed text; the initial appears only in the handwritten signature on the drawing: the indication seems to me made to show that the drawing was studied down to its smallest details. Unlikely for an ordinary forger.

 

The French politician depicted on the warhead of the bomb could be Maurice THOREZ, General Secretary of the French Communist Party at the time. [these last two pieces of information should be checked by documentalists...]

 

Headlines

 

One could see big headlines such as:

 

L' URS EST FAVORABLE A UNE SÉSSION SPECIALE DU CONSEIL DE SÉCURITÉ POUR REGLER LES DIFFÉRENCES EST – OUEST.

 

See image 4 (5 a.m. edition)

 

(image 4)

 

I noticed a difference, almost minimal, between the quotation and the real title, which is interrogative and not entirely matching. But, going further into the article itself, I found that the meaning was respected.

 

In reality, the article had changed a little in title and content from one edition to another. We see in image 5 (day edition) that the title is exactly the one cited in the Ummite letter, except for the word "différends"

 

(image 5)

 

The original of the Ummite letter has been overtyped on some badly printed characters or typing errors. (See original above). This is so in the particular case of the end of the word DIFFÉRENCES, for which the last 3 letters have been overtyped in a space equivalent to 2, which prevents us from establishing whether the word may have been properly spelled and corrected later by someone who knew French better than the typist. I add that if the Ummite dictated the word DIFFÉRENDS with his own pronunciation, it would be very close to what was typed (very close phonetics)

 

If the author did not read the headline himself, he had a very precise account from someone who understood French well.

 

The partial photocopy of page 1 of the 5 a.m. edition (image 4) establishes that this headline did indeed appear on page 1 of the newspaper cited.

 

and others:

 

SÉRIE NOIRE DANS L'AVIATION    TROIS CATASTROPHES AÉRIENNES ONT FAIT  19 MORTS

 

Not having received pages of the 5 a.m. edition other than the 1, 2 and 6 I had ordered, it was impossible for me to verify the reality of that headline. On the other hand, it appeared right in the centre of page 2 of the day edition.

 

(image 6)

 

AIDE IMMEDIATE A L'INDOCHINE.

 

The observation above is also valid here. In fact this headline is also found in the newspaper, but on the right-hand part of page 3 of the day edition.

(image 7)

 

Mondial Nursery

 

On the back of the paper, although soiled with excrement, one could see an image of exceptional interest to us. One could see an adult human being with two UGEEYIE (We could not identify the sex clearly). We later learned it was a lady and children of both sexes. One could appreciate the make of your clothes (Do not forget that one of our headaches was finding out how you dressed). Above the drawing there appeared a text, of course unintelligible to the explorers at that time, which said MONDIAL NURSERY.

 

To find this information, I began at the beginning. Page "one" having been described first ("On the page later identified as the first"), the indication "On the back of the paper" had to refer to page 2. However, this contains only one "image", which is in reality a drawing of advertising intent (image 8) of small dimensions: almost square, 4.5 cm a side.

 

(image 8)

 

There is indeed an illustration that matches the description in the text, but we also note all the interpretative gap that derives from the text.

 

This leads to several observations, regarding the detail of the letter, which I take up again.

 

- (One could see an adult human being with two UGEEYIE (We could not identify the sex clearly) Indeed, for someone who does not know our norms of managing appearance, the adult depicted, whom our culture makes us recognize as a young woman essentially because of the skirt and the hairstyle (haircut and shape of the hat), presents no evident differentiating sexual characteristic: There is no perceptible bust ["mammae", as the Ummites would have said]. The point is even more evident for the children, for whom clothing is the only possible evidence of their sex, even for us, in the absence of a clear logical sign directly assimilable by "exoplanetary" beings.

 

- We later learned it was a lady and children of both sexes. One could appreciate the make of your clothes (Do not forget that one of our headaches was finding out how you dressed). No comments here; the text corresponds to the observation.

 

Let us just recall the finding of the interpretative gap for an "image" in which only the reader's total ignorance can justify the comment made. A correct reading required knowing the procedure and the rationale of advertising drawings!

 

- Above the drawing there appeared a text, of course unintelligible to the explorers at that time, which said MONDIAL NURSERY.

 

Here we have the simple but effective elements of identification of the drawn image. No ambiguity is possible here.

 

The difference of cultural interpretation between the comment in the Ummite letter and what we know of this "image" is interesting in the overall assessment of this passage.

 

Marcel Achard's play

 

To confuse us completely about the type of terrestrial clothing, there appeared on another page of the newspaper (Page 6) a photograph of another human Being (A lady) dressed in the classical manner corresponding to the theatrical performance of "Malborough" by Marcel Achard, which had just been performed at the Marigni Theatre.

 

This part of the document is probably the most interesting.

 

Indeed, on page 6 of the 5 a.m. edition there are only two photographs. One shows two French sailors in uniform after a flag ceremony in Terre Adélie, and the other a couple on stage facing an audience at which, evidently, they are not looking. The woman of the couple wears an almost long dress with multiple pleats. It is an advertisement for a radio broadcast (television had not yet been commercialized in France). Having nothing but the 5 a.m. edition, I had then thought that the Ummites had been misled by the advertisement or had tried to make us believe so.

 

In fact, with the day edition to hand, the situation is simple.

 

There are still only two images on this page. The second is still the one advertising the radio broadcast. But the first shows the couple of principal actors of Marcel Achard's play: Marlborough s'en va-t-en guerre. One notes that the clothes are theatre costumes corresponding to the period of the play.

 

(image 9)

 

The only notable error lies, for us, in the temporal information. The caption says: "Jacques Dacqmine, cured, has resumed his uniform, and this evening the dress rehearsal of "Marlborough s'en va-t-en guerre" by Marcel Achard will take place at the Marigny theatre. Above: Madeleine Renaud and Jacques Dacqmine." The caption therefore announces the dress rehearsal of the play, which will be performed on the evening of Saturday 25 March.

 

However, the Ummites write: "corresponding to the theatrical performance of "Malborough" by Marcel Achard which had just been performed at the Marigni Theatre." (the underlining is mine). For us this wording means that the newspaper article is later than the performance.

 

There is therefore a temporal inconsistency. Would this be an Ummite lie?

 

No, I do not believe so, and here we find an indication of the "exotic" way of thinking of the authors. No terrestrial commentator, fabulist and/or forger, would have fitted the timing in relation to the time of his own discovery of the newspaper. That is not in our way of being. The Ummite declares here that the play has just been performed, since he was able to have the newspaper on the 28th or 29th, that is, three or four days after the date of the announced performance: for him the play had already been performed some days earlier.

 

This element constitutes for me an implicit piece of disinformation, intended for quick or superficial readers, and a piece of authenticating information, a suggestion of credibility after calm analysis, that is, in conformity with the last lines below, taken from the UMMO letter (D62) received in May 1967 by Dionisio Garrido Buendía, police commissioner in Madrid:

 

"... What attitude must terrestrial experts adopt towards our identity, or towards the reality of those cosmic ships seen by thousands of witnesses?

 

With complete logic the first plausible reaction must be one of prudent scepticism: That of prior disbelief.

 

But this disbelief must not present the IMMOBILIST characteristics proper to persons of low mental level (low intelligence quotient) who deny systematically without troubling to analyse, study and carry out a severe criticism with grounds for judgement..."

 

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Apart from this dossier of partial checking of the UMMO affair, we can observe some interesting elements about the page of the original reproduced.

 

See image 1 at the beginning of the page

 

The typist has a selective knowledge of French and probably has a Spanish typewriter, which has meant handwritten corrections after the text was typed. It seems evident that the French text was dictated to him.

 

- his typewriter does not have a French keyboard, because he is not able to type the circumflex accent in "embêtent".

 

- His Spanish culture leads him to put accents on capital letters, which is not done in French (except in dictionaries)

 

- The French word AERIENNES has been transcribed according to the equivalent Spanish phonetics AERIEN, the rest having been added by hand by the "corrector".

 

- The same happens with the verb "ONT", in which the T has been added by hand.

 

- The correction of the first M of IMMEDIATE comes from the Spanish spelling of the equivalent word INMEDIATA. [It is the French language that has assimilated the N to an M, since the true etymological root is IN-MEDIATIO (without mediation, without "medium")]

 

- A word ending in Y is very rare in Spanish, which explains why he wrote "Marigni", which escaped the corrector.

 

- On the other hand, one notes that he has correctly spelled the words SESSION, DIFFERENCES, AVIATION, CATASTROPHES, which are written differently in Spanish.

 

In conclusion

 

The quotations from LE FIGARO of 25-26 March 1950 made in the letter of the first days on Earth (D57), received by Enrique Villagrasa on 20 March 1967, do not fully match the content of the 5 a.m. edition of the newspaper. They are, however, perfectly consistent with the day edition of that newspaper, and contain various marks of "exoticism":

 

- perfect mention of Sennep's drawing on the front page, but with the initial of his name

 

- mention of three headlines from 3 different pages, but one with a typing error in one word, without the meaning being profoundly modified.

 

- perfect reference to an advertisement on page 2, with a definite cultural gap in reading

 

- perfect reference to a photo of actors and a surprising expression of temporal correlation.

 

The analysis of the corresponding part of the French text confirms the reality of the dictation to a Spanish typist partially familiar with the French language.