From: egs@netcom.com (Edward G. Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.paranet.ufo Subject: UMMO Case and Ufology Date: 17 Aug 93 18:00:19 GMT Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Disclaimer : I write this for Renaud Marhic who does not have Internet access. -- Emmanuel Marin Hanneton@frulm63.bitnet The Ummo case : UFO manipulation in Europe During January '66, several Spanish citizens from Madrid received anonymous letters mailed from Spain, but also from all over the world: Australia, Canada, Switzerland, West-Berlin, etc... These letters, which never mentioned the adress of the sender, carried the following stamp : )+( This is the stamp of a so-called "Unified government of the planet Ummo", and the letters were signed by a so-called "extraterrestrial expeditionary group" on a mission on Earth, and especially in Spain. The most important characteristic of these letters was that they contained, amongst unverifiable scientific topics, lots of clearly anti-Franco, anti-American, pro-communist statements. Some letters from Ummo (Ummo case consists of thousands of letters !) had been brought to the attention of the Spanish population thanks to the Spanish press, radio and TV, and to the recipients. Some of them wrote books dealing with Ummo: "Ummo : Another Inhabited Planet" Fernando Sesma, 1967 "Looking Toward The Edge Of The Universe" Father Enrique Lopez Guerrero, 1968 "The Ummo Mystery" Antonio Ribera, 1975 The recipients had also created an association called ERIDANI, in order to study the Ummo case. After 1975 and Franco's death, the letters were rarer, but they continued to denounce the USA, capitalism, American military policy, etc... Since the eighties, some Spanish and French ufologists have strongly suspected that Ummo was a political manipulation and that Mr. Jose Luis Jordan Pena, the chairman of ERIDANI (!), was the principal author of the mystification. But he strongly denied it. In April '93, Mr. Jose Luis Jordan Pena admitted for the very first time his guilt. He made the following statement to some Spanish journalists and ufologists : "I am the man who has written the letters from Ummo." But he absolutely refused to talk about his motive, his goals, and the political aspects of the case. The French UFO network SOS OVNI has published in its magazine Phenomena some papers about the political aspects of Ummo and Jose Luis Jordan Pena. An investigator of SOS OVNI has also published a book titled: "Ummo Case : The Extraterrestrials Who Came In From The Cold" Today, the inquiry is still on-going. Here are some of the first recipients of the letters in Spain (1966): Fernando Sesma : ufologist and esoterist. Alicia Araujo : secretary of the USA Embassy Dionisio Garrido : policeman Antonio Ribera : journalist and writer Raphael Farriols : chairman of industry Here are two typical statements of Ummo : 1966 : "Mr Sesma, you are a man unknown in the scientific field and in the philosophical field, but you are a courageous and independant man in a country internationally reputed as the most backward country in Europe, lead by a dictatorial government connected with nazi and fascist experiences. Your country is suffering from the opressions forbiding all scientific, technological and ideological developments. All the great intellectuals are in exile or have been punished with death by the oligarchs like Garcia Lorca." 1987 : "Gorbatchev is clever and honest (...) Marxism is the best political way (...) AIDS has been created by the US Army." Any comments from persons knowledgeable in manipulation and disinformation on the following topics will be appreciated : -Why Ummo? -Did Jose Luis Jordan Pena work as an agent of disinformation for the Soviet Union or for the Spanish communists? -Did the ex-KGB create the Ummo case for psychological war? -Has ufology often been manipulated like that ? Emmanuel Marin Hanneton@frulm63.BITNET -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ed Stewart - egs@netcom.com - | So Man, who here seems principal alone, "There is | Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown. Something Going On!" ,>'?'<, | Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal, -Salvador Freixedo- ( O O ) | 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole. ------------------ooOO-(_)-OOoo------- Alexander Pope, Essay on Man -------