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Contact began in February 1966 in a Madrid suburb, where witnesses saw a UFO hovering close to the ground. One witness, Jose Luis Jordan-Pena, reported seeing a symbol on the bottom of the craft that is stylized similar to the symbol representing planet Uranus, of which he described in a letter to prominent Spanish ufologist Antonio Ribera.
On 1 June 1967, Jordan claimed to have investigated another close encounter at San Jose de Valderas, near Madrid. He said witnesses had told him that they saw a symbol on the UFO’s bottom similar to the one he saw. The following day, newspaper photographer Antonio San Antonio, took a phone call from an anonymous young man. The caller said he had taken pictures of the UFO, and San Antonio could pick them up at a certain photographic laboratory. One of the pictures depicted the curious logo.
Soon afterward, leaflets signed “Henri Dagousset” asserted that the UFO had left capsules in the area. “Dagousset” offered three hundred dollars for each sample, referring takers to a general delivery address at Madrid’s main post office.
In August, Barcelona writer Marius Lleget, author of a recently published UFO book, received a letter with no return address from “Antonio Pardo.” Inside the envelope were two more pictures of the San Jose de Valderas object with the identical symbol. Pardo said he had taken them moments after the first photographer had snapped his. He also enclosed a green plastic strip with the symbol on it, explaining that he had recovered it from a boy who had found it and a similar strip inside a mysterious tube. Subsequent analysis determined it to be a weather-resistant plastic developed for military and aerospace use.
In a related development, investigators would Spanish newspaper Informaciones published a peculiar announcement on May 20: that soon a flying saucer would land near Madrid to return earthbound extraterrestrials to their home planet, Ummo.
On the evening of the thirtieth, three persons reportedly watched a UFO land near a restaurant in Santa Monica, another Madrid suburb. The next day, according to one of the witnesses, impressions, burn marks, and small amounts of a metallic substance attested to the UFO’s presence. These events seemed to confirm a prediction made by contactee Fernando Sesma, president of the Society of the Friends of Space, on May 31. In a speech to a small group, he revealed that since 1965 he and two associates had been recipients of phone messages and written communications from Ummites. They had informed him of a sighting to occur on June 1. They provided the exact geographical coordinates. The Santa Monica incident seemed to confirm the Ummites’ statement.
The written messages soon started to arrive in the mail of Spanish UFO enthusiasts, then to some of their French colleagues. Postmarks indicated that they were sent from all over the world, from cities in Europe to others in New Zealand and Canada. On each page the Ummo symbol appeared. It was the same one Jordan Pena and other witnesses had reportedly seen and the anonymous young man had photographed. The messages typically consisted of many pages of discourse on Ummite life, society, science, technology, language, and politics.
Besides the monographs, there were phone calls from Ummites, always speaking with great precision in a monotone voice. Untraceable or unsigned letters came from human beings who had dealt with Ummites face to face (they were described as tall, blond, and Scandinavian in appearance) and witnessed marvelous technology. The quantity of such material was astounding.
By 1983, some sixty-seven hundred Ummorelated communications were in the hands of a variety of recipients. Most were written in Spanish, a small minority in stilted French that seemed to have been translated from Spanish.
In one document, the Ummites said they had arrived on Earth in March 1950. The following April 24, they revealed in another document that they had stolen a number of items from a family in an isolated house in the French Alps. By this time, the French government had become interested, and at last it had an investigatable claim. But official inquiries turned up nothing: no police records, no evidence of the cave in which the Ummites asserted they had been living between their landing and the break-in.
In the 1970s, the San Jose de Valderas “UFO” fell victim to photoanalysis that established that the object was an eight-inch plate, the symbol drawn in ink. Still, the communications continued, and an Ummo cult grew up around them. A number of books, mostly in Spanish and French, would examine or celebrate Ummo.
French-American ufologist Jacques Vallee, trained in astrophysics and computer sciences, characterizes the contents of the documents as
“clever and occasionally stimulating.” (Vallee, 1991).
Ummo documents still show up in the mail of a few individuals, most prominently the French aerospace engineer Jean-Pierre Petit, a phenomenon that has been happening over three decades.

Further Reading* Evans, Hilary, 1983. “Ummo: A Perfect Case?” The Unexplained 12, 134: 2661–2665.

———, 1983. “The Ummites Tell All.” The Unexplained 12, 135: 2686–2689.
———, 1983. “Ummo—Red Alert.” The Unexplained 12, 137: 2738–2740.* Ribera, Antonio, 1975. “The Mysterious ‘UMMO’ Affair.” Flying Saucer Review Pt. I. 20, 4 (January): 20–24; Pt. II. 20, 5 (March): 13–16; Pt. III.

21, 1 (June): 26–28; Pt. IV. 21, 2 (August):
24–25, 27; Pt. V. 21, 3–4 (November): 43–46.* Vallee, Jacques, 1991. Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception. New York: Ballantine Books.