Date : posted on 19/12/2003, received on 20/12/2003
Addressee : Monsieur Pierre Martain (Pseudo)
Language of origin : French
Notes :Letter in two parts, written in French - posted in France. The first part was put online on 13/01/2004, the second part on 03/12/2004.Possible inconsistency between the surface area of Lake AOUWOA SAAOA and the data in letter D41-1
Note AJH: There are 3 mentions of OURIO 79 in the "old" letters:
D57-3: "UURIO 79 son of IYIA 5: Expert in BIIEUIGUU (Human Psychobiology), aged 18 terrestrial years (the only one of this first expedition still on this planet). (Editor's note: in 1967))"
D57-5: "By shining through the windows with a light so bright that it could not be noticed, UURIO 79 son of IYIIA 5, UORII 19 daughter of OBAA 7 and ADAA 66 son of ADAA 65 (died on Earth in 1957), were the first in history to observe a terrestrial dwelling. The operation was led by ODDIOA 1 son of ISAAO 132."
D62-4: "On February 12, 1957 YOA 6 and a subordinate brother, UURIO 79, son of IYIAA 5 arrived in Hyderabad to travel to villages near the Godovary River where, according to news extracted from reliable sources, it was possible to find some Hindus capable of repeating these effects."
It may be noted:
UURIO has become OURIO in the French script, which seems to show that UURIO is not pronounced OU-OURIO (perhaps a long OU?)
IYIA is written in 3 different ways (although there is some doubt about the writing on D57-5)
XXXX and André-Jacques [...]
At your request, I'd like to provide you with some geographical and demographic information about our UMMO. First of all, I absolutely must clear up the confusion caused by the map that appears on the document classified by you as D41-1 in section 111/1. This map does not represent our entire UMMOAA continent, but an area of approximately 2100 x 1400 kilometers covering the large equatorial peninsula called WOAROO AAXAA. This highly urbanized island is home to our legislative and religious centers. It is home to over 200 million people, or around 8% of our total population (see note below).
Note 1: Our demographic growth rate has been increased over the last few dozen XEE to rejuvenate our population and reach the ideal number of 6,128 (2.58 billion) inhabitants by the time we reach our 4 th age (see note 2). From now on, we'll apply an average birth rate of 60/1728 every 12 XEE to maintain our population at this level, which for you is roughly equivalent to an annual rate of 13.7 °/°°.
Note 2: For your information, the moment of this passage was notified to us on July 9, 2003 between 6:34 and 6:37 GMT, at which time our spouses, adult children and parents remaining on UMMO established telepathic communication with us (see note 3). We thank your brothers for their warm messages of sympathy, which will be passed on to UMMOAELEWE.
Note 3: Distance is of no importance in establishing the telepathic link, but interference due to the presence of imaginary matter in OUWAAM may slightly affect synchronism when communicating at very great distances. This explains the margin of error, which takes into account a maximum delay of 3 minutes for the first telepathic link perceived at 6:37 am. Under no circumstances should interference affect the pseudo-synchronism in such a way that a telepathic communication is perceived before it is transmitted, as this would imply a violation of the fundamental physical laws of WAAM.
=> The symbols on this card are inverted in your document, with the cartouche appearing in the top left-hand corner. The inversion can be attributed to incorrect sizing of the image, or to deliberate positioning of the map in a reading direction that places the west (couchant) on the left, in accordance with your convention and contrary to ours. The typographical markings and cartographic projection are thus inverted in relation to our usual representation, in which the upper hemisphere, which concentrates the major part of our continent UMMOAA, would represent the south for you.
With a total surface area of some 250,10 6 km2, it's easy to deduce an average population density of around 10 inhabitants per km2, but this average value would give a very distorted idea of the distribution of our population, 83% of which is concentrated in 8 sub-equatorial colonies (see note 4) where the average population density, calculated on the surface area of land actually inhabited, varies between 3,123 and 6,123 inhabitants per square KOAEE - i.e. between 68 and 136 inhabitants per km2. I should also add that half of the total surface area - the marshy regions in the center of our continent, the polar zone and the two sub-polar blocks attached to it - are nature reserves, where only a few specialists in planetary ecology, botany or zoology temporarily reside to study the fauna, flora and natural evolution of the environment. 17% of our population lives in the central colony WOAROO - including WOAROO AAXAA - located in the upper equatorial zone of this continent, which contains the main historical vestiges of our abolished past.
Note 4: On UMMO, there is only one vast, highly dissected continent. For historical reasons, the upper part of this continent - located to the south for you - which makes up around 68% of the total land area, is very sparsely populated. The actual inhabited area is divided into 9 geographical blocks or colonies, of which only the main colony WOAROO lies south of the UMO equator. The other 8 colonies, representing 31% of the continent's total surface area, lie north of the equator and are arbitrarily separated by natural topological boundaries - rivers or inlets. Like you, we measure time according to the apparent path of our sun IOUMMA during a XII (day). The geographical reference is arbitrarily given by the small circular equatorial island OUAWABAAAE mentioned on the map, surmounted by a glyph containing a circle symbolizing the equator. This island serves as the origin of our time coordinates, just like your Greenwich meridian. UMMO is thus divided into 25 time slots of 24 OUIW each (approx. 1 hour and 15 minutes).
=> Please extend the lines on the map that converge on different population concentrations in the colonies directly adjacent to WOAROO AAXAA. Our 8 outlying colonies account for around 31% of WOAROO AAXAA's total surface area. The inhabited area of the WOAROO colony covers around 19% of a territorial strip that lies roughly between the upper tropical zone and the equator. The polar zone, including two sub-polar peninsulas, makes up 9% of the total territory. It is icy and deserted. The WOAROO AAXAA legislative center houses the headquarters of our UMMO council (UMMOAELEWE), which is located at the equator, to the northeast - depending on your map positioning - of the great lake AOUWOA SAAOA. In the center of this lake is WOABAAAE Island, where you can admire a large, translucent, fire-colored egg-shaped building dedicated to meditation and religious worship. Nearby, a splendid dodeca-hemispheric building welcomes official representatives from other cold stars who visit us on UMMO to maintain telepathic contact between UMMOAELEWE and the peoples with whom we have a relationship. The telepathic link is the only one that allows simultaneous contact between two star systems. We wholeheartedly urge you to develop this latent ability within yourself, which your children would be able to use from the onset of puberty if they were educated in this way.
Also shown on this map is the island GOABAAAE - indicated by a glyph resembling your number 9 - where the heart of our computer network is located, concentrating data on every single Ummain (see note 5). It's the only place on our planet that enjoys what you might call military protection.
Note 5: We prefer this term to the one you use, ummite or oummite. We use the terms ooman, oomoman, oomoan interchangeably in our correspondence with your English-speaking brothers.
/////// and André-Jacques [...], the expression of my sincere respect and friendship. I would like to thank, through you, all your brothers and sisters who are interested in our UMMO culture for their discretion, and remind them that open-mindedness and constant doubt are the strong signs of a healthy intelligence.
Note 6: I am aware that the following additional information is likely to cause heated critical outpourings from some of your brothers. I therefore advise you to weigh up your decision to share it with them. I remind you that the stability of our UMMO social network and our psycho-emotional evolution are factors that we privilege over any necessarily subjective personal value judgments.
PROCREATION: Procreation is forbidden outside the OMGEEYIE (matrimonial couple) - pronounced "omghéèyié". This word contains within it the implicit notion of a freely consenting and legally constituted couple, made up of two OEMMII of different sexes and compatible ages. We allow a maximum age difference of 35 XEE if the husband is older than the wife, and 23 XEE otherwise. OMGEEYIE is authorized as soon as both spouses are physically fit to procreate.
CONTROL AND PLANNING OF BIRTHS: Each OMGEEYIE has the indefeasible right/duty to procreate a first child, whose birth he/she is entirely free to plan. From the moment of birth of the first child, he/she must take the necessary measures to avoid any impregnation likely to lead to a second conception (see Note 7). The procreation of a second child must be the subject of a reasoned request and authorization from the IWOONA OUIWAAGOO (birth planning group). In general, this request is accepted if the first child has already reached a sufficient level of OUNNIOBIEWIA (intellectual and psychomotor development) to enable him or her to learn independently using the domestic resources provided in the OU-OULODAXAABII (audiovisual room), where he or she must do daily exercises. This level is generally reached between 7.6 and 8.5 years of age.
Note 7: Hormonal contraceptive measures are very rarely used on UMMO, and we have no equivalent to your male condoms or intra-uterine devices. Control is achieved through perfect knowledge of each YIE's ovulation cycle by means of domestic monitoring systems integrated into the couple's private XANMOO (computer and peripheral systems) in the XAABII (circular house). This data is strictly private, and the SANMOO AYOUBAA (global computer network) is only privy to it through regular, anonymous dissemination for purely statistical purposes.
Procreation of a third child is no longer recommended. It is rare for an OMGEEYIE to make such a request. The ONAWO WOUA educational center, relayed by the couple's AO-OUIA-OEMII religious minister, may however make the proposal to an OMGEEYIE whose other two children have demonstrated exceptional aptitudes, confirming the parents' excellent genetic complementarity. A third child may be accepted if the first two are OU-OUYIIE (girls). A fourth child is no longer permitted.
MORTALITY and LONGEVITY: Demographic stability is now the rule on UMMO. This means establishing a strict balance between births and deaths. On an Earth-year basis, the mortality rate on UMMO is 13.7°/°°.
Our medical techniques enable us to compensate for the physiological degenerations associated with old age. Our elders do not suffer from the bone, cardiovascular or cancer problems that are endemic on OYAGAA. We do, however, suffer in our old age from a cerebral degeneration that we neither know nor want to avoid. This degeneration is gradually robbing our elders of their ability to transmit telepathically. As oral transmission is no longer possible due to total sclerosis of the vocal cords, they are condemned to silence. The degeneration continues until all telepathic reception is lost. This disappearance of all natural communication faculties is accompanied by a slow, inexorable deterioration in memory capacity. For our elders, this translates into a progressive loss of autonomy, which is an unacceptable blow to the integrity of the OEMII and to the sense of personal respect you call dignity.
//////// . If life were reduced to the autonomous maintenance of vegetative functions, our longevity would exceed 140 years. However, if we exclude accidental deaths, death on UMMO is a voluntary act that occurs - with a few exceptions - between 432 XEE and 575 XEE (91 to 121 terrestrial years).
OEMII TO HELIUM CONVERSION CEREMONY: For us, death is the ultimate culmination of existence, as important as the celebration of marriage, conception and the birth of a child. The ceremony of conversion to helium, equivalent to cremation for us, is meticulously prepared by the elder who is preparing to die. This decision is usually taken jointly by the couple, who share it with their children and their minister. The provision of a funeral home is then planned for the OMGEEYIE, who reunites all his children and their spouses up to the fifth generation. A frugal meal is followed by a moving farewell session, at the end of which the family is invited to view a documentary featuring selected footage summarizing the past life of the departing OMGEEYIE. The old couple then isolate themselves side by side, holding hands, facing the audience, behind a glass that slowly becomes opaque, so that they can enjoy one last time the happiness of contemplating, through their descendants, their active contribution to the perpetuation and enhancement of the UMMO social network and the accomplishment of a lifetime.
The XANMOO, which constantly monitors the biological parameters of both OEMIIs, determines the precise moment when deep peace invades the OMGEEYIE, marking the entry into the meditative phase indicating the OEMII's acceptance of surrender. A flash of blue light indicates to the audience the moment of emission of a high-frequency gravitational field that causes instant death by destruction of the brain cells. The process of converting the atoms making up the body's cells into helium then begins. Some of this helium is diffused into the room, mixed with an aromatic composition specially created for the occasion by OMGEEYIE itself. Each family member symbolically inhales the last scents of their ancestors, whose voluntary integration into the collective psyche of UMMO is now complete.
For UMMOAELEWE
NABGAA 112 daughter of DORIO 34, approved by AYIOA 1 son of ADAA 67
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NR-18 "suite", available online as of 03/12/04
Sir [...]
I'd like to quote two brothers from the first group to visit you. OURIO 79 son of IYIA 5 was fascinated by your complex psychology and could not bring himself to leave your planet of his own free will. ODDIOA 1 son of ISSAAO 132, chosen for his high moral standards and his experience of other non-Umma civilizations - both more and less evolved than yours - couldn't bear the terrible reality of the suffering your people endure on a daily basis. He had to leave for UMMO as soon as a new group of expeditionaries arrived.
Other brothers were also emotionally affected to varying degrees by their stay on Earth. At present, with a few exceptions, we limit the duration of our expeditions to 12 XEE (about two years and six months). During our return journey, and on arrival on UMMO, we undergo a process of psychological conformation, the duration of which varies according to the individual - you might say according to the degree of psychological disturbance. We take advantage of the return journey to UMMO to observe the quarantine period necessary to destroy any organisms, pathogenic or otherwise, that we inevitably bring from OYAGAA by the simple act of breathing or eating there.
Our physiology allows us to reside on your planet virtually without constraint. The acceleration due to gravity on the surface of OYAGAA is favourable to us, and the lower oxygen content of your atmosphere affects us very little, as our organism compensates for itself by adapting haematological parameters accordingly. As our muscular output is naturally greater than yours, our strength would no doubt seem surprising. The only unpleasant parameters for us on OYAGAA are the high temperature, which restricts our mobility, and the strong sunlight. We therefore prefer winter, twilight and nocturnal activities. However, we respect the circadian rhythm specific to UMMO - exactly thirty hours on Earth - which implies alternating daytime and night-time activities. We systematically protect our eyes with aseptic soft lenses, the center of which, covering our irises, is made of a substance that opacifies according to the luminosity received. On OYAGAA, this substance is slightly pink to transpose the range of light frequencies emitted by your sun into a spectrum closer to the one we're familiar with on UMMO. In case of strong reverberation, we sometimes use your sunglasses, but we find them impractical. We protect our nasal cavities and auditory canals with an antiseptic solution, and also smear it on our armpits, ankles and other heavily exuding areas of the body. The smell of decomposing apocrine sweat is difficult for us to tolerate. Some of your perfumes, some of them very expensive, literally disgust us. We consider that the best body odor is the absence of odor or the simple residual fragrance of bath salts. It's astonishing that cosmetics as inexpensive as deodorants based on aluminum salts or ethyl alcohol are so little used by your fellow human beings, especially males.
Apart from the need to protect ourselves against your viruses and pathogenic microorganisms, our only real constraint, not specific to OYAGAA, is to regularly inhale an aerosol - which you might call an antihistamine - to prevent any allergic reaction from exposure to substances necessarily exotic to us (pollens, insect bites, food, fruit drinks, etc.). We take extreme care with our diet. Some foodstuffs, commonplace to you, cannot be assimilated by our digestive system. We have to monitor ourselves constantly for early warning signs of anaphylaxis. We carry effective medication with us at all times, which we need to self-administer as a matter of urgency to prevent the onset of anaphylactoid or anaphylactic shock. We must also take great care not to leave any telltale signs of our presence, such as fingernail clippings or hair. We are model guests for the staff of the hotels we stay in, who find virtually no evidence of use of the bathroom or bed. We force ourselves to splash water, waste toilet paper, wet towels and exaggerate the rustling of sheets to avoid suspicion.
Our behavioral mimics are curiously similar to those of your fellow human beings, but with some notable differences. Our silent laughter - and here I'm referring to adult Ummans - seems very strange to you, and some of your brothers have interpreted it at the time as choking on a wrong food or hiccuping from suffocation. We, on the other hand, find your laughter quite surprising. Yawning exists among us, but generally indicates mild hypoglycemia and the need to eat, whereas fatigue is expressed by heavy eyelids, tingling eyes and difficulty concentrating. We smile just like you, and for the same reasons. We also cry and weep in the same emotional conditions as you. We're not ashamed to cry, and tears come easily to our eyes, as do flushed cheeks. We do, however, cry silently, except in the case of great sadness, when we emit a sustained groan produced by the trickle of air escaping from our larynx, oppressed by the strong feeling of sadness. Unlike you, in this case we can't speak while crying, because the emotion completely blocks our vocal cords. The intensity of the emotional flow is about twice as great in our case as in yours.
Our morphological similarities are truly astounding. My brothers and sisters in your midst do not fall outside the subjective framework of normality associated with the broad morphological spectrum constituted by your various ethnic groups. If we were to appear before you dressed in your fashion and announce our non-earthly origins, you would not at first take us at our word. Only a careful visual examination would alert you to a few curious details that a non-specialist would overlook or deem of little importance.
The reverse would not be true on UMMO, however, as only a small percentage of your adult population would be able to pass visually for our congeners, morphological diversity being far less on UMMO than on Earth. However, the percentage would increase significantly if we restricted ourselves to women, young pre-adolescents or very young children.
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Your technological development over the last few years is a great help to us in our mission of scientific investigation. The miniaturization of electronic components and energy sources enables you to use various devices on a daily basis that you carry with you at all times. We've found it easy to conceal our own measuring devices in the form of unobtrusive mobile phones, cameras or portable music players. Your women's systematic use of saddlebags allows us (I'm speaking here for myself and my Ummah sisters) to incorporate sound, image and biological recording devices without any difficulty.
Don't be afraid of the exponential technological progress that seems to overwhelm some of your brothers. Technological progress is a necessary step in the development of your social network. The rapid emergence of your global information network, the INTERNET, is salutary. This network has strong functional similarities with the information base accessible through our planetary computer network on UMMO. The difference lies essentially in the system's interactivity with the user and the presentation of information. Our computers also have the ability to take certain initiatives or anticipate our requests within certain limits. They play not only an informative role, but also an educational and medical one. In a way, they are an integral part of our social network.
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As a supplementary answer, I would like to point out that the informative report referenced by you, JS 88, on which your brother formulated his remarks, was not intended to be made public. We regret that it has been made public, but we accept its content, which remains valid for the most part. However, I would like to remind you that the intervention plan described in this report would only be activated by the certainty of your race's imminent self-destruction. As an indication, based on parameters frozen on November 13, 2002, the probability of self-destruction does not reach 1/12 before your year 2028. Without wishing to alarm you, we estimate that this probability will exceed 1/2 in 2073 and that the threshold of 11/12 will be reached in 2166. Although these dates have been regularly postponed since 1989 each time we recalculate them, the events following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States of America have introduced significant fluctuations in certain parameters of our predictive model, which have not yet been cushioned.
However, there are other reasons why we would like to extend the range of presumptions that would allow us to conclude that we are actually present on Earth, in order to compel your government agencies to respond positively to a simple request that we consider absolutely legitimate. These organizations are undeniably aware of our extraterrestrial nature, yet they don't deign to consider us as reliable interlocutors, a behavior we can't accept as rational. Consequently, the phase of contacts, including reports issued to Earthlings around the world as well as deliberately visible incursions of our OUEWAs (space vehicles) into your airspace, will continue to be progressively accelerated until we obtain feedback from your governments under the pressure of legitimate questions from witnesses, the sensationalist press and non-governmental organizations with whom we also communicate. You would be amazed at the panic that has seeped into the minds of those at the top of the military structures of some of your great nations at the mere mention of the word UMMOAELEWE, for no logical reason that we can think of.
Sir, I hope this document answers your personal questions. I apologize for its lack of information.
I hope you will accept, Mr [...], that I symbolically place my hand against
your chest to express my friendship.
For UMMOAELEWE: NABGAA 112 daughter of DORIO 34, approved by AYIOA 1 son of ADAA 67
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Note AJH: There are 3 mentions of OURIO 79 in the "old" letters:D57-3: "UURIO 79 son of IYIA 5 : Expert (Psychobiology human), 18 years of age land. (The only one of this first shipment that is still on this planet). (Editor's note :in 1967))"
D57-5: "By shining the light through the windows with a light such that one could not notice it, UURIO 79 son of IYIIA 5, UORII 19 daughter of OBAA 7 and ADAA 66 son of ADAA 65 (death on Earth in 1957), were the first in history to observe a residential land. The operation was conducted by ODDIOA 1 son of ISAAO 132."
D62 - 4: "On February 12, 1957 come YOA 6 and a brother of subject, UURIO 79, son of IYIAA 5 to Hyderabad to get to the neighbouring villages of the river Godovary where, according to news extracted from reliable sources, it was possible to find a few hindus able to repeat these effects."
It may be noted:
- UURIO became OURIO writing French, which seems to show that UURIO is not pronounced OR-OURIO (can be a OR long ?)
- IYIA is written in 3 different ways (although there is a doubt as to the writing on the D57-5)