Message read on 18 April 1969 by Fernando SESMA
Your researchers know of, and are hurrying to discover, the origin of ships whose lenticular morphology has given rise to their name of flying saucers.
We know that the controversy today among the scholars of your planet centres on whether their origin is terrestrial or from other points of the galaxy, or even extragalactic, as the most imaginative postulate.
We are going to offer you, in condensed form, some exact versions, verified by me and mine, concerning the planetary centres from which they come: you may accept it or not, since my assertions are verbal, not accompanied by objective verifications of a technical character.
The spaceships (I use verbal terms of Earth) have very different structural characteristics, as is easy to suppose, depending on the civilization that planned, designed and built them. But the propulsion system of almost 80% of them is identical. Their technology is such that it allows them to cover distances, paradoxical as it may seem, in a shorter time than a photon would take to travel, without this meaning that the craft develops a speed greater than the limit of the energy quantum.
Around 22% of the other galactic civilizations use different means and ships with another superstructure and a radically different means of travel.
Well then: men of Earth, for this once I and mine tell you, without using symbolic language, that:
From a planetary body that its inhabitants call (ZOEN) (this is the acoustic expression closest to Castilian), situated in a planetary system of the star catalogued by you as "Beta-Hydra male", 21.35 light years from you, and whose inhabitants are of very small stature: Height with a statistical median of 42.17 cm, they have been watching the terrestrial atmosphere since the year 1721 (A.D.) without descending.
From a planet called (WVALA) by its inhabitants, situated at a star not catalogued by you, located 27.88 light years away, they recently arrived on Earth and have landed for the first time in Chile; but their crews only came down on limited occasions.
From a planet called (IOX), situated at the star (HR 7703 a), whose inhabitants are tall, very intelligent and with very strict moral rules, come ships that have periodically visited the Earth since the year 896 B.C.
From a planet called UMO, situated some 14 light years away, come peaceful crews who since 1950 have been visiting the Earth and, taking advantage of their anatomical constitution similar to yours, have mingled with terrestrials to study them.
From a planet coded with a number [2] by its inhabitants come the oldest visitors to the Earth (since 31700 years B.C.). They are tall and have scaly skin, an anatomy a little different from yours. They come from a star not catalogued by you, situated 47 light years away.
From a planet classified by its astronomers of the star Earth as (70 Ophiuchi a) (70 Ophiucius a), situated 17.28 light years away, come unmanned observation ships which have been entering your atmosphere since the year 561 A.D. with great frequency.
From a star with a very complex orbital system, situated 44.37 light years away, come crews who have been observing you since the year 1906 A.D., frequently descending to carry out their experiments and studies. Their inhabitants are of very short stature, megacephalic, with greyish skin (not greenish, as some witnesses identified them) and of a high cultural level. They are intelligent and are governed by ethical rules of high content. They call their planet by a modulated sound that is difficult to express in letters.
There are three other civilizations, including me and mine, which for justified reasons we cannot mention.
The name I gave my planet in earlier messages was symbolic. The real existence of AUCO as a material entity is nil.
Our mental structure is so different that only by means of symbolic verbal expressions is a more efficient communication achieved than this realistic binary logical form I use in this very message.
Don Fernando Sesma is one of the men who serve us as intermediaries for our communication with terrestrial humans, and the only one authorized to spread them to the other men of Europe and America.