Original Letters · D57-2

First exploratory survey of Earth

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  • Reference: D57-2
  • Kind: Original Letters
  • Period: 1967
  • Date/source detail: 30/01/1967
  • Reading path: Begin the dossier
  • Available languages: English + French + Spanish + German
  • D57-2 describes a claimed first near-Earth approach, remote observation, and a non-contact rationale. It helps readers understand why the dossier frames contact as hidden, limited, and conditioned by effects on the human social system.

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  • Source language: French
  • Last updated: 2026-06-23
  • FIRST ARRIVAL IN THE VICINITY OF EARTH.
  • On January 7, 1949, after the exploration of the planets NEPTUNE and MARS by our brothers transported in two OAUOLEA UEUA OEMM (SPACESHIPS), these arrived in the vicinity of a new OOYAGAA endowed with a much denser atmosphere than that registered on the previous star. The first exploration was carried out in a helicoidal orbit on an elliptical trajectory whose perigee was distant by 337 kilometers from Earth and the apogee by 398 kilometers.
  • During the exploration of Neptune, a wide range of radioelectric emissions from Earth had already been received, which allowed our brothers to identify this Planet. The presence of higher life on it was therefore evident. No other source of emission was identified and it was reasonably deduced that the rest of the OYAA (COLD ASTRES) gravitationally linked to the OOYIA (called by you SUN), did not have intelligent biological forms or at least endowed with developed techniques. This last reasoning led the explorers to head toward an OYAA that they codified with the denomination (which you know under the name of MARS). This first examination carried out at a height of 290 KOAE. (One KOAE is equivalent to approximately 8.7 kilometers) or 2592.6 kms, revealed the absence of an atmosphere dense enough to allow the external development of complex pluricellular beings. The holes from multiple meteorite impacts and the crystalline structure of the soil studied by our remote sensing instruments revealed the absence of bacteriologically active life producing soil decomposition, at least in the small zones that were explored. Subsequently, we discovered on this OYAA not only proteinic and amino-acid forms but also simple unicellular and pluricellular plant beings. (You will not delay in discovering them).
  • The strict examination program of this inhabited OYAA began to be implemented. First of all, the rationalization of measures for escape in the event of an attack forced us to maintain a very high speed of translation which harmed the precision of observations. It seemed evident that the OOYAGAA (Square Astro) registered by our UMMO was precisely the one we were analyzing (I explain myself in the plural referring to my brothers because I was on UMMO).
  • We knew that if you had reached a certain degree of civilization, you would instantly detect our presence. In case this presumption were false, then the criterion of not ostensibly manifesting our presence would impose itself. If we wish to study a Civilization in all its purity, our presence should avoid provoking social perturbations, abnormal dynamisms in the technical means of defense, detection, and interception as well as serious perturbations in the means of communication relating to the probable information network. A social network thus distorted or perturbed by the presence of foreign beings cannot be studied analytically in all its purity. You will find a comparison with a bacteriologist who wishes, for example, to study a new strain of spirochetes. He must not perturb the culture broth with new germs that would alter the biological process of the first ones. If he did so, before the field of his microscope, the elementary forms of conduct of these microorganisms would be abnormal.
  • Heading: OBSERVATION
  • It is for this unique reason that our presence among you is unofficial: some people with whom we have contact, especially of North American and Australian nationality, often and ingenuously ask us why we do not make ourselves officially known.
  • It is curious to note that among these, there are terrestrial men who, with their erudition and scientific training, should themselves understand the real causes that force us to inhibit ourselves. We believed at that time that you would be more consistent. We understand that the average man of Earth poorly endowed with intellectual faculties maintains the stupid hypothesis that: both we and other presumed galactic visitors should present ourselves with a UEUA OEMM (flying saucers) right in the middle of a large square in New York, dressed in a silver suit and with a deadly ray gun like in Science-Fiction novels. This shows you judge us desirous of an absurd popularity. Your embryonic and primitive reasoning appears to be this: "If these beings come from another star, why do they not make themselves known and why do they not demonstrate it?" Any expert in terrestrial philosophy would call this sophism "begging the question".
  • We, (and we presume that it is the same for other visitors who may be among you) have absolutely no interest in the terrestrial social network being absolutely certain of our presence.
  • Right from the beginning our brothers adopted precautions to pass totally unnoticed. As we were in the process of impregnating ourselves with your culture and knowing the laws of terrestrial social psychology, we realized that the revelation of our presence made to a few people would not be dangerous because the other members of society would react with incredulity and this is what effectively happened. Do you believe that if it were otherwise, we would have taken the risk of getting in touch with you? And even three people in the publishing profession, with whom we maintain conversations, have published our accounts (in three newspapers or magazines in Poland, Spain and Canada) and logically their readers adopted the natural skeptical posture that we hoped for.
  • Thus such an attitude would be modified and we would present ourselves ostensibly, bringing proofs of our identity, before the terrestrial press, and technical governmental or international organisms.
  • A posture that we absolutely do not intend to adopt for the moment.
  • In this manner we were able to cover two objectives. A direct contact with a group of terrestrial inhabitants to exchange facts concerning our mutual civilizations, while avoiding perturbing the rest of terrestrial society which remains on the margins of a situation that it judges legendary due to its insufficiency of proofs.
  • We unfortunately were unable to achieve our second objective. Passing unnoticed by State technical organisms; United States, France, England, Soviet Union and we think with reason that Italy, Germany and the Argentine Republic are aware of our presence and that they show themselves preoccupied even if unofficially we have demonstrated to them that their fears were unfounded. Regarding the fact that the knowledge of such a situation can provoke reactions of anxiety and panic in the civilian population, the chancelleries of these governments can be reassured at least concerning the brothers of UMMO. We will not make ourselves known for the moment, because the risk that it goes beyond the few scientists or writers with whom we are in contact is ZERO, excluding the few people with a highly critical spirit included among the relatives and friends of our correspondents.
  • The others, saturated with prejudices, with narrow mental frameworks and aware of the risk of fraud that can creep into our revelations, will maintain a skeptical posture to the extreme.
  • For this we ask you not to show yourself excessively zealous to divulge to the people around you the reality of our existence. Thus you will not be taken for an illuminated or mentally disturbed person and your own professional stability will not be attacked. To those who, without a prior analytical examination of the facts, show a skeptical attitude, believing themselves thus to be "intelligent", approve of them without any comment.
  • Heading: FIRST VISUAL EXAMINATION OF THE TERRESTRIAL CRUST BY OUR BROTHERS
  • The cumulus clouds abundant on that date over the American and South Asian continent prevented us from sharply observing the dense communication network (subsequently identified as tracks and railways whereas an erroneous initial identification had suggested tubular channelizations). This allowed us to evaluate by a first estimation your degree of technical civilization (we have not had road networks for a long time). Your first aircraft was detected near an archipelago that we subsequently identified as being the Bahamas islands. The image was enlarged in the onboard laboratory and its morphological characteristics were analyzed. This was the first indicative element of the technological level that we could obtain. During the 86 UIW (4 h 25') that the analysis lasted, we were able to descend to a height of 0.62 KOAE (5.394 kms) over a zone subsequently identified as being the southwest of the Helvetic Republic (SWITZERLAND), capturing images of urban and industrial centers as well as railway nodes, concentration of flora (Forests and plantations), floating structures on the Atlantic ocean and fragments of watercourses and multiple samples of atmospheric gases at different altitude levels. We still conserve as an historical curiosity the image obtained of one of the streets of the small city of MONTREUX (SWITZERLAND) on which one saw the first human individuals captured by our equipment. The confused features did not, however, prevent the analysis of fundamental physiological elements and clothing morphology.
  • At that time it was impossible to extend the exploration interval if one wanted to return to our "UMMO" before the ISODYNAMIC conditions of space returned to an unfavorable phase. Not once did our UEUA (SHIPS) make contact with the terrestrial crust.
  • (In a future report we will begin a historical synthesis of our second journey and the descent of the first brothers)
  • Heading: ANALYSIS ON "UMMO" OF THE DATA COLLECTED ON EARTH
  • The impact produced on our Society by the news of the identification of the civilization of OYAAGAA (your PLANET) was truly moving.
  • Our technicians immediately dedicated themselves to a careful examination of the objective elements obtained (air samples, optical images, phenomena captured via radioelectric pathways) as well as the subjective reports of the brothers who composed this first expedition.
  • It was necessary for us to forge, with abundant but undoubtedly insufficient facts, a first, probably distorted, image of the social structure and the degree of Civilization.
  • This primitive conception that we had had then is today very distant in view of our current perspective. But I wish to give you as a curiosity the idea that we had had at that time of what terrestrial civilization could be. Errors were numerous but despite this, the sketch created presented many points agreeing with reality.
  • In the first place, three images corresponding to human beings were available. The first and most complete showed individuals of different sex wandering between constructed structures. Careful analysis, even if it prevented distinguishing facial features, offered no doubt of sexual identification thanks to the localization of feminine breasts on a few silhouettes. But it was impossible to distinguish small details in clothing. We also discovered that the YIE (Woman in our language) were characterized by abundant cranial hair, although it could be some fibrous wig on the head. Unfortunately, some images of YIE (clearly differentiated by the bust), had their legs covered like the men, which had introduced a polemic on the differentiation of the clothing of the two sexes.
  • This analysis was very important because our brothers, selected to travel to Earth, had to be provided with EEUE (clothing) similar to those of Terrestrials to pass unnoticed. Unfortunately, it was not possible for us to determine either the composition of these (we did not know if they were fibrous tissues until our arrival) or the most essential details of their confection.
  • A second point that was highly debated was that of the zone most apt among those explored for the descent of our brothers. It had to be an unpopulated zone, but not desert-like because otherwise any prudent contact with the inhabitants would have been impossible.
  • This, from your point of view, seems very simple because apparently it sufficed to examine the UULAYA (Captured images) topographically and then select a semi-wild geographic environment. But we were ignorant at that time if the men of Earth lived in subterranean "anthills". Do not forget that we concentrate cities and constructions in the open air only when it comes to what you call industrial zones. While the rest live dispersed in the XAABI (emergent houses) which can fold back underground. Moreover, other inhabited planets concentrate human beings in large subterranean colonies. Was it the same for this Ayaggaa (Planet Earth)? Constructions that we know today correspond to your houses were identified initially as being factories. But what intrigued us the most were the images obtained of long vertical tubes located in all these constructions, nozzles located in the vehicles that our cameras could capture, these expelling vapors and aerosols (smoke) of a dark color.
  • You cannot imagine the stupor caused in us by something that is familiar to you; spectral analysis of such gases presenting a heavy dose of carbon monoxide, tars, and hydrocarbons. We imagined then that the physiological organisms of terrestrials could not live in an atmosphere of oxygen and nitrogen without the gases cited previously and that is why you added them to the surrounding air to make it more breathable. This had filled us with anxiety because we thought of the consequences that such an artificial climate could have for us.
  • (Once arrived on Earth, as we will tell you later, our hypothesis was corroborated upon seeing you with these cylinders of tobacco which we interpreted at first as gas generators for respiration, marveling even more observing that children and other individuals did not carry them).
  • I was telling you that strong discordances had arisen among the technicians at the moment of selecting the terrestrial zone where the descent of the expeditionaries was to be realized because we risked, by choosing the apparently least populated place, to situate ourselves precisely within a subterranean concentration and thus be detected and even destroyed by you.
  • Detailed study of the images corresponding to various aircraft gave us an index of your technical level. Some still had aerodynamic traction by propeller. We carefully examined the welds made between the metal layers (we did not yet know that it was an aluminum alloy) and the structures of some auxiliary mechanisms of these aircraft.
  • There was one element that made us conceive a totally aberrant idea in relation to the Terrestrial Social Network. Several hundreds of radioelectric emissions had been registered coming from numerous points of this planet and this, in a very extensive frequency range. Thus we were able to note with surprise the enormous linguistic multiplicity, and our specialists in acoustic techniques, classifying the languages that presented a homogeneity in phonemes, sometimes identified two or three as being a single language. Our attention was strongly drawn by the fact that a large part of the emissions, captured in relation to metric wavelengths, presented the same type of binary language (short pulses, long pulses) already captured in the first message.
  • But trying to translate it in the same manner as the first, we realized our error. What could be the true code used by you? One conclusion was reached: the inhabitants of the OYAGAA (planet EARTH) used a multitude of local languages and to interconnect the different communications, you must logically use a unique international language based on short and long whistles whose code was still indecipherable for us. (Later we noted that such a hypothesis was very simplistic because the MORSE code serves as a vehicle for many languages). To complicate the panorama even further, we had also captured Television Video broadcasts. But we were ignorant that such frequencies carried an image. As we interpreted them acoustically and moreover all those registered originated from North America, we thought that in this zone three languages were spoken, the last of which (video signals) had not the slightest resemblance to the others.
  • The enormous linguistic anarchy (further complicated by our interpretation errors) added to the immense range of technical differences observed with the multiple equipment and constructions of the different zones of the planet, truly filled us with perplexity.
  • It was impossible thus to have a coherent panorama of what Terrestrial Civilization could be.
  • On the other hand, the atmospheric composition obtained by various samples in various points of the OYAA and at various altitudes, showed us that we could descend without the aid of auxiliary respiration equipment.
  • But the very important question of the enantiomorphic structure of protein molecules remained to be resolved. Were they dextrorotatory or levorotatory? If the biological molecules of beings and foods were the inverse of ours, it would be impossible for our digestive organs to assimilate them and we would be condemned to starvation if we did not bring our own foods. It was therefore necessary to endow the expeditionaries with other auxiliary equipment to purify water in case it had toxic salts in suspension, perhaps assimilable by the inhabitants of OYAGAA (EARTH) but not by us.
  • The policy to follow with you was carefully elaborated. Violent defense in the event of an attack. Initiation of official contacts if we were detected and controlled peacefully. Absolute neutrality and attempts with all techniques at our disposal to pass unnoticed. Conduct to hold in the event that it would be impossible to pass unnoticed by Terrestrials. To pass unnoticed, a subterranean observatory would then be installed in the suitable rural zone and underground the most accessible observation methods and techniques would be studied.
  • Even on this point we were wrong, as we shall see further on, because we realized with stupor that it was perfectly possible to mix with you without provoking astonishment.
  • Immediately, the program of preparations was implemented and the people who would compose this first expedition were carefully selected right from the beginning. Among the six retained, there were only two YIIE (this is how we name women). All learned long fragments of the different captured languages (totally ignoring their meaning) simply to familiarize the EESEE OA (SUBCONSCIOUS) with the phonic structure of terrestrial acoustic expression codes. They were able to examine all the informative material captured and they familiarized themselves with the multiple plant forms whose images were the sharpest of the terrestrial flora perceived. Little indeed for a few Oemii who were going to be confronted with an unknown world.
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Terminology notes

  • KOAE: Measurement unit specific to UMMO context.
  • YIE / YIIE: Term for woman.
  • EEUE: Term for clothing.

Translation risk notes

  • "petit garçon ou petite fille" refers to UMMO children concepts, translated directly but meaning could be nuanced.
  • "pétard / CHAPELET de pétard" translates as string of firecrackers, which fits context but relies on European cultural metaphors.

Terms preserved in source language

  • OAUOLEA UEUA OEMM
  • OOYAGAA
  • OYAA
  • OOYIA
  • KOAE
  • UMMO
  • UEUA OEMM
  • UIW
  • YIE
  • YIIE
  • XAABI
  • EEUE
  • EESEE OA
  • OEMII

Suggested UMMOwiki concepts

  • The confusion regarding terrestrial cigarettes/smoke
  • The initial misinterpretation of television video signals as an acoustic language
  • Enantiomorphic molecular structure protocols

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