From:
[email protected] (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
[email protected]
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 :
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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." ...
) UMMO was big stuff a few years back, but this guy doesn't seem obviously related.
