D106 Reasons for sending their reports.

UMMOAELEUEE

Language: SPANISH

Number of copies: ONE

Mr. Rafael Farriols Calvo

BARCELONA SPAIN

 

Date 15 March 1973

 

 

Good friend of ours:

 

This copy is not any information about our culture, for you already know our rule, flexible though it is, according to which for some months now we only send such reports to the seats of legally constituted associ­ations, of which we also know that they will at least take an interest in not destroying them. According to that criterion; when we wish to send you any writing of that nature, you will receive it through the association to which you are affiliated.

 

But such a provision is not so rigid as not to allow us to send you this letter, whose context cannot be classed under the heading of REPORT. In the same way, when there are reasons of mutual security that may lessen the risk of the correspondence being subjected to violation by third parties, those reports will be sent to your brothers, addressed to their respective homes or delivered directly by brothers of yours who collaborate with us.

 

Consider the paragraphs that follow as a friendly digression, warning you beforehand that you are in no way obliged to share our criteria, harbour our fears or fol­low in your conduct guidelines that may be more agree­able to us, but which will at times clash with your particular points of view.

 

You are aware, Mr. Rafael Farriols, that our defencelessness in the face of any unfortunate reaction by your bro­thers of EARTH is really very great. It is incompatible with our particular moral criterion to force you to obey instructions of ours. We only use a means of coercion when we judge that any slip in your conduct may provoke anomalous consequences. We then limit ourselves to suggesting to you that the violation of our indica­tions would mean a temporary or definitive break of these communications.

 

And even so we have only exercised such a threat when there were reasons of security for both cultures: that of EARTH and that of UMMO, represented by these expeditionaries who are writing to you.

 

With an insistence which you will no doubt call tiresome, we have repeated to you our serious disquiet at the slant which our communications with men of EARTH seem to be taking.

 

We do not refer to the contacts with brothers of yours in other countries, who in the face of the phenomenon of such relations have adopted a much more reticent or distrustful attitude, and therefore a much healthier one.

 

But in particular, the collisions between both cultures have meant for certain brothers of yours in south-eastern America, Spain and Canada a true mutation in their beliefs.

 

Induced by the probable suggestion that some of our writings presented before their own intellectual criteria, they have ignored our frequent warnings and have let themselves be seduced by some aspects of our thought.

 

A superficial appreciation of the phenomenon might lead one to think that such an attitude must flatter us OEMII of UMMO. And we confess that we do indeed sympathize, with true emotion, with those manifestations of spiritual adherence. but at the same time we are witnessing a process which we describe (and we have good reasons for judging it so) as DANGEROUS for you.

 

Although many sceptics among your brothers think the contrary (and such reasoning is correct if one chooses not to admit the suitability of our alien, non-terrestrial origin) our mutual and unilat­eral relations do not in the least have as their object "to win followers"; if that were so, we possess other much more efficient means to achieve this objective. Or can any intelligent brother of yours conceive that a group of men of EARTH could think that effectiveness in winning proselytes would lie in making the surprising (and in that case fraudulent) assertion that the members of such a society come from a distant planet?

 

We know of no social group on Earth that has prospered by falsifying its own origin in such a gross way. The members of the various philosophical, religious or political schools may hold illogical, erroneous or aberrant ideologies, but at least one constant seems to be discernible in all of them: Good faith, the sincerity without which any group is condemned to die.

 

It might be objected that a falsification of their foundations could be an original tactic with regard to the uninitiated. Presenting oneself as extra­terrestrial could in principle (in the judgement of such critics) provoke strange and obscure psychological resonances in persons with a peculiar mental structure, awakening in them special forms of conduct, linked at times to the "contacting" complex, to the subconscious desire to figure as "chosen" by "galactic beings" and at others; to the inclination for "mystery", the esoteric, experience outside everyday vulgarity.

 

This objection is fully correct. And precisely such a fear seriously influences us in criticizing the attitudes of certain brothers of yours.

 

But returning to the considerations we were putting to you: Do you not think that the organization on EARTH that took advantage of such a tactic, apart from acting immorally and thereby becoming delinquents, would fail completely in its attempt to win prose­lytes?

 

Little favour would men alienated by pseudological and delirious ideas do to their own social structure. A sad role, that of some "intellectualized" leaders who, in order to win followers among the masses, have to resort to the poor subterfuge, extrapolated from "science fiction" literature, of presenting themselves as "extraterrestrials".

 

For that would mean that their "doctrines" did not possess suf­ficient force of conviction to introduce them among the mass of presumed catechumens, except by choosing mentally defective men who let themselves be seduced by the said lure.

 

Some of your brothers, Mr. Farriols Calvo, see in us a powerful organization, with incalculable financial means, that wishes to transform society and its culture by taking advantage of the seduc­tive myth of the "men from space".

 

Leaving aside the allusion to means of an economic character, which, although in no way as "immense" as are attributed to us, we have no objection in admitting are as ample as our field of research in a planetary framework alien to us demands, such opinion-givers will at least recognize an evidence difficult to ignore.

 

For if what, in the opinion of your brothers, we wanted was to attract proselytes or change the cultural structure of EARTH, we must ALL agree on the resounding failure of such a tactic: a few do­zen curious correspondents (sceptical and distrustful most of the time) scattered through a few countries is not a very attractive balance for a sect or ideological group that counts on such "powerful means".

 

We are not, Mr. Rafael, making a vain, merciless criticism of the more or less unfortunate versions about my brothers that circulate among your brothers.

 

After all, such formulations have an undoubted logical basis, since the strange relations that we anomalously maintain with you must necessarily be subjected to speculation. Since the probability that we are simply telling the truth does not fit within their own logical schemes, they must resort to interpretations which, for any serious and impartial analyst, are as absurd and outlandish as the hypothesis which for them is to be rejected.

 

Let us leave them making endless conjectures, which we reason­ably consider sterile, for if indeed, as they think, our origin is from EARTH, the phenomenon of some "anony­mous letters" sent to fewer than two hundred humans by some "mad" researchers" or "fellow members of an ideological group" does not deserve that too much attention be de­voted to them, when there exist a multitude of suggestive virgin fields in the world lacking analysis and study.

 

But if their hypotheses about our identity lack sufficient consistency, certain accusations that with our attitude we are influencing brothers of yours on EARTH we unfortunately cannot refute. It might naturally be objected that if we are one social group among the many that exist in various countries, we are within our rights to introject our own ideology. All the more so since this does not violate basic principles of a moral order considered basic in the present institutions of Earth, and moreover does not clash abruptly with the principles of many present ideo­logies agreeable to you.

 

If this challenge makes no sense when made by any of your brothers, it fills us on the other hand with sorrow, for if it has a real basis, it violates and perverts in its most intimate roots our genuine intention; our objective, which consists precisely in the contrary: to RESPECT the CULTURE in its multiple forms PREVAILING ON EARTH.

 

A culture as evolved with respect to EARTH as the one we have on UMMO cannot be grafted onto or plagiarized among you without provoking serious disturbances. To dream of taking inspiration from it in order to try to modify your own ideological schemes favourably is acceptable as a simple oneiric phenomenon: To try to put it into practice, translating its schemes so as to fit them artificially into your moral, political and philosophical schemes, seems to us (with sufficient grounds for judgement) a puerile naivety and an experience condemned to failure.

 

We are therefore disquieted by the venturesome attitude of those bro­thers of yours who, after reading our anonymous reports, torture their minds trying to inhibit themselves from their beliefs, replacing them with spurious ideals prevailing in a social framework as different as that of UMMO.

 

Do not think that in prejudging you thus, a disdainful attitude towards the Ideologies of EARTH is implicit in our assertion. Precisely we have insisted to you, in all simplicity, that among the multiple ideologies of Earth, among the body of thinkers who are your brothers, ethical principles of a sublimity which we ourselves revere can be selected. We can teach you nothing in this respect, just as we could teach you nothing in the field of the art of coordinating sounds or the plastic rendering of form and colour, in which you, with respect to us, are grand masters.

 

Another matter is that, because of our special idiosyncrasy and our advanced evolutionary stage, we have socially assimilated socio-ethical sche­mes which for you still appear as unattainable ideals.

 

Apparently it is easy to refute the nature of our scruples. Any of your brothers, armed with simplistic arguments apparently full of reason, will object that the solution is very simple: If our objective consists in avoiding all impregnation by cultures foreign to EARTH, nothing is simpler than to avoid it: by sus­pending this postal or telephone correspondence with men of EARTH.

 

When we began these contacts, we judged that we had found the ideal procedure satisfying a whole long list of requirements. On the one hand it allowed us to get in touch with the Oemii of EARTH without disturbing the SOCIAL NETWORK. This last principle is basic for our expedition on EARTH, and that for two very important reasons: To alter the biosocial process one is trying to analyse is considered by all researchers as an aberration: But besides, we consider such a disturbing influence unethical. No civilization must influence the normal process of evolution that it observes in another SOCIAL NETWORK.

 

We discovered, not without astonishment, after some timid attempts riddled with reservations and precautions, that it was nevertheless possible to com­municate with OEMII of this solidified star without such informa­tion radiating dangerously into the surrounding social milieu. It was thus possible for us to converse with or write our information to humans

of EARTH without disturbing the development of the SOCIAL NETWORK, since the scepticism (logical, on the other hand) of its nodes or members acted as an effective damper on the diffusion of information.

 

When this immunity was put to the test, it proved fully effective. In this way we satisfied two new requirements. On the one hand to reciprocate in some way before the SOCIETY of EARTH for the store of information it supplies us with in the course of our systematic analysis of the geological, ecological and cultural milieu of this COLD STAR: with the exchange of other measured information about our civilization and other aspects of UMMO.

 

At that time we harboured the hope of a fu­ture official contact with the civilization of EARTH, and we were trying to test on a small scale the social consequences among you of a revelation concerning our stay on this planet.

 

This last expectation has been frustrated, for we have discovered that such an experience would be traumatic for the cultural evolution of EARTH, but it is still possible that you may come to verify scientifi­cally that we were among you on a study mission during these years. For that reason we consider valuable these documents we send you, which may serve as testimony in a not distant future.

 

For this we made various trials, choosing brothers of yours from various social and cultural, racial and national strata. We needed the depositaries of these documents at least to choose to keep them as a simple curiosity, while adopting towards their respective contents a logical mental reserve until their verification by irreproachable scientific means became possible.

 

The first results were discouraging. Those men of science, thinkers and group leaders with whom we established contact either tore up the texts without reading them, or found "contradictions" with their own cultural schemes, or took advantage of certain aspects of their context to publish them as their own work, without admitting (except in very isolated cases) that the plea to keep them, at least as probable reports coming from other beings not belonging to the human phylogeny of EARTH, should be taken into consideration.

 

Except for the said isolated cases, it has been precisely humans whose origin lies in social strata of average culture who have been the most disposed to consider seriously the possibility that such texts might have been written by my brothers.

 

A warm bond was thus established with persons, more or less scattered and at times associated, of different nations, on whom my brothers placed more attention. The instruction we begged for, to keep silence, was respected by the natives of certain countries.

 

In other nations, owing partly to the fact that for experi­mental reasons that reserve was not requested, and partly to the special psychology of your brothers involved, the news spread further than we would have wished.

 

There were moreover affective reasons. Some of your brothers came to be so closely bound to our anonymous presence, materialized by texts that reached them irregularly but with a certain frequency, that inevitably they suffered a very strong impact on their emotional scales.

 

The harm was done when we became aware of the danger this meant for you.

 

Our superiors seriously thought that continuing such contacts violated our most precious UAA (Moral laws), since without wishing it we were disturbing these brothers of yours with our writings. And in fact the contacts with these OEMII were suspended.

 

Dismayed, we were able to observe that such a break presented even more traumatic effects than those we were trying to avoid.

 

On the other hand, new conditions had appeared for our brothers which annoyingly altered our stay among you. A national Power became aware of our existence as a group and had for some time been devoting itself to investigating our activities: On the other hand the field of research programmed by us is undergoing new orientations towards nations of Earth still almost unexplored by us.

 

All this contributes to our setting out for you a series of considerations on the matter.

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Mr. Farriols Calvo: We have commented on another occasion on your planned assembly to deal with subjects relating to our SOCIAL NETWORK. Al­low us, as the dates you have estimated for those meetings draw near, to take the liberty of addressing to you some opinions about them.

 

We repeat that you must never consider them as instructions, and that we renounce our privileged moral situation when issuing our judgement, if this is to imply any coercion.

 

But we do beg you to ponder our considerations, in case they should seem to you or your brothers to have a reasonable logic.

 

We do not hide from you (and you must not regard this as unavoidable courtesy, since were it not so we would make an observation to the contrary) that we are greatly interested in that experience. You enable us once more to test the reactions of your brothers with respect to our experience. This consideration has prevailed over other reasonings that advised us to show ourselves displeased with the project, but our fervent wish is that such an Assembly should not become a proselytizing framework in which the attendees are influenced to accept our tes­timonies. We set out for you some points of our thinking.

 

We would be pleased if within the assembly the spirit of a simple critical curiosity about the reality of this communicative experience were to prevail.

 

The attendees must consider as valid only one verifiable truth. The reception by some OEMII of EAR­TH of certain writings whose origin and the aims that motivate their senders constitute for the moment an insoluble unknown.

 

The reading of texts selected from our documents must always be described as mere assertions, ma­de subject to your analysis when they involve facts announced beforehand, and stated under the testimony of totally unknown authors, whose genuineness must be subjected to severe criticism.

 

We would advise that special care be taken to exhort the attendees not to let themselves be carried away by the temptation to make their own the ideas expressed in the context of the existing documentation.

 

We consider objectionable (and on this we lay special emphasis) any form of coercion or censure of the attitude of those brothers of yours who, in the use of their freedom, wish to exercise a sincere and objective criticism, both of the thesis of our existence or the origin of our brothers and of the testimonies set out in the documentation analysed.

 

To avoid in the sessions any type of coercive attitude to force the attendees to adopt the criterion of those who, under their own particular responsibility, sincerely believe in our testimony, is in our judgement a prudent measure that it would be desirable to maintain.

 

At the last assembly organized by you it was possible, under cover of surprise, for one of my brothers to attend as a discreet observer of the social climate aroused. This fact has already inevitably been discovered by you, so that obviously we shall not be able to repeat it on the dates of that future assembly. We shall try to send you a letter­ of greeting addressed to your brothers, if no adverse conditions intervene, in which we shall repeat, among other ideas, many of the concepts repeated in this very letter.

 

We also beg you, Mr. Rafael Farriols, to get in touch with your brother Ignacio Darnaude Rojas-Marcos, addressing your request to Avenida Manuel Siurot Nº 3 -B1. San Leandro SEVILLA, as­king him to tell you whether he has any objection to our writing to him again in order to send him a photocopy of a report sent by my brothers to a human in Bilbao (Spain) with reference to our stay in Albacete. We know the prudent reserve of your brother Ignacio, and the intelligent scepticism with which he receives our versions. It is his inte­rest in clarifying that event, following sociological guidelines of genuine scientific value despite his limited means, that makes him deserving of support and respect; but since he does not accept our testimony as valid, we fear to importune him with our letters, so we beg him to tell you or any of your brothers in Madrid whether he wishes such documentary reception.

 

Greet in our name your wife: children, brothers Antonio Ribera, Federico Guibernau, Jaime Imbert and so many other brothers of yours who follow these contacts with special curiosity.