D392 Warning about the recent dispatch of fraudulent reports

UMMOAELEUEEE
Number of copies: ONE
Language: SPANISH
Addressed to SPAIN

Friend, Sir:

I wish first of all to introduce myself to you. My name is AOXI BOO number 3, SON of IRAA Number 6. I am an EEMMII (Human) from the cold planet UMMO.

The reason for causing you the trouble of reading us is the one we set out below:

As you know, in recent years my brothers have lavished a one-sided correspondence on your brothers of Earth. You and certain brothers of yours have been recipients of our messages, which were only intended to be informative, never meant to become vehicles of a doctrinal nature.

We think, with a certain degree of reason, that our fears that our intention would suffer considerable distortion have to some extent been fulfilled.

Today we sincerely believe that we have harmed you without meaning to.

We have picked up conversations held between your brother Rafael Farriols and Jorge Barrenechea, and from their content we can infer the degree of discord caused through our fault.

It was inevitable that brothers of yours would take advantage of the degree of expectation aroused by our letters to arrogate to themselves the right to usurp our name of UMMOAELEUEE and write false missives in order to sow confusion in your minds. That was one of the reasons that moved us years ago to recommend reserve and secrecy to you. The temptation not to contain your admiration for us led you to spread our messages even against our prudent advice, and there you have the inevitable fruits.

We think that, from the mental perspective of your brothers, these forgeries of letters have a certain logic. Do not forget that, on the premises of sound reasoning based on the culture that the man of Earth possesses, it is difficult to give us credit. What definitive proof have we provided of our identity? NONE. We have even introduced elements of confusion so as not to be believed.

It was to be expected that the UMMO subject would be interpreted by many sensible brothers of yours as an intelligent myth fabricated by other brothers of Earth. To reproach them for that would be like insulting their intelligence.

As a corollary: they judge your belief to be the fruit of a delusional idea, and call you dreamers. The structure of this judgement, although excessively dogmatic, is on the other hand correct on the basis of the principles of Aristotelian logic prevailing among you.

Brothers who are friends of yours, observing the passion for the subject that you do not hide, thought it interesting to write those letters.

The motivation was very simplistic. In the first place, by writing them and having you receive them and interpret them as not apocryphal, they obtained the proof they so much awaited that you lack a critical spirit. That is to say, that your existential personality is excessively credulous, which for them would explain your faith in the existence of Ummo.

In the second place, such practices provoke a morbid feeling of amusement, of entertainment with pathological roots. For mocking the noble feelings of faith of another brother infringes the most elementary ethical norms. Even supposing that our group were a social nucleus of impostors (and that judgement does have a certain logic), that moral violation, supposedly on our part, would never justify other persons imitating us, for the same reason that the habitual existence of thieves in your society would never be an argument for committing crimes by appropriating other people's belongings.

Let those gentlemen who forge these letters know, then, that by their attitude they show a low intellectual level, and that they should be concerned about their mental health, since their conduct is classified in Earth psychiatry as psychopathy (affective disorder). The gravity of their moral violation is not so great as the degree of disturbance in their limbic system. Believe me, Mr Forger, and others who do as you do. Perhaps you are sure that we do not come from Ummo, but:

At least you will be able to guess that, being doctors as we are, we possess knowledge of psychiatry (EDDIOO EWWLAA).

It will be no consolation to you to accuse us of being psychopaths (EDDIOO LAIIAA) as well, for if you accuse us of being impostors, you would in turn be including yourselves in the same category. With one difference, obvious to us: the reality of our Ummite identity, which cannot be established for you but is for us.

The other reason that moves you to forge the letters is this: you seek to manipulate your brothers, feeling the morbid pseudo-pleasure of being obeyed by those you judge to be credulous dreamers. It is natural. You have so often been puppets of other people's interests that now you seek to become apprentices of Leviathan.

Think for yourselves of the sad role this represents. Do you yourselves know any man of science, artist or thinker of great stature who devotes himself to forging letters, wasting his time on that task?

A mentally balanced man does not act in this way. If you forgers believe that we are such, in the first place do not imitate our supposed EDIO LAIAA (PSYCHOPATHY), and in the second place be original. The plagiarism of identity is demonstrating to yourselves your low intellectual level, that is to say: your poor intelligence. You could, for that purpose, create the fiction of an imaginary planet with another name.

By the results and the expectation it aroused, you would measure not only your own intelligence but the credulity of your brothers.

Trying to direct other humans as if they were robots, under the name of UMMO without being Ummite, must give you a very poor opinion of yourself, that is to say, a very low assessment of your moral character. For your own good we exhort you to correct such a sad attitude.

For our part, we thank you for your attitude, since you help to create confusion regarding our genuine nature, an objective we have never tried to hide, since we have always believed it harmful for humans of Earth to believe in our culture. Thank you, forgers, but abandon your attitude. For two reasons: because it is very easy to unmask you —so your objective is sterile— and because, as we have pointed out in the paragraphs above, by persisting in your conduct you worsen your psychopathic pathological picture.

Now an exhortation to our true friends.

What has happened should make you reflect. Were we not right when we warned that you should stimulate your critical spirit and not believe in us so much?

Consider, moreover, that the content of such letters, were they messages of ours aimed at creating confusion, would be flagrantly immoral. It is legitimate for us to insert contradictory ideas and fraudulent data so that an analyst may detect them and deduce the falsity of our message.

But it is not ethical to induce you to adopt a particular conduct on the basis of false assumptions. That amounts to playing with your feelings. It would be a contemptible stance, and it would be enough for you to despise us for it. That is precisely what the forgers have done. If they believe that we are the forgers, let them at least consider that we have not tried to take advantage of the prestige we generated to induce our friends to perform acts that would ridicule them or damage their social image.

On the other hand, we consider legitimate any brave criticism and denunciation that a sceptic may issue through a news medium. In this sense, since we are speaking of Spain, we have been pleased by the honest attitude of your brother who, under the pseudonym Antonio José Alés, writes an intelligent critique in the Spanish edition of OMNI, Number 3, describing the Ummo subject as an instrument of sociometric assessment.

We have harmed you. Forgive us. At least we ask you a favour to make up for this occasional disturbance. And it is that you forgive one another the aggressive attitudes and offensive words you may have addressed to each other as a result of the nervousness caused by those apocryphal letters. If we observe that resentment has taken hold in your minds, we would prefer to cut off all communication from now on. Look at us from a more distant perspective. DO NOT TRY TO ASSIMILATE OUR PHILOSOPHY except where it corroborates transcendent moral ideals that the thinkers of Earth had already endorsed through the conduct of their brains.

Do not let yourselves be carried away by resentment, then. Calm yourselves and, once again, at the risk of being wearisomely repetitive, we tell you: DO NOT BELIEVE US.

Our deepest respect to you and to your YIEE
Signature

[Signature in Ummite characters and UMMO seal]