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of the UMMO author” (Vallee, 1991). He
contends that the perpetrator or perpetrators
got their inspiration from Jorge Luis Borges’s
fantastic short story “Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis, Tertius”
(1941), a fable about imaginary planets
that in some sense become “real.” Other suspects
are Fernando Sesma, Jordan Pena, or
some intelligence agency involved in a psychological
experiment. Hilary Evans thinks a
better, more sustained investigation by the
Spanish ufologists who probed the affair
would have produced answers and made
Ummo less mysterious than it appears to be.
Whatever the case, Ummo documents still
show up in the mail of a few individuals, most
prominently the French aerospace engineer
Jean-Pierre Petit. Whoever is beyond the
episode has expended much time and energy
to it over three decades.
Further Reading
Evans, Hilary, 1983. “Ummo: A Perfect Case?” The
Unexplained 12, 134: 2661–2665.
———, 1983. “The Ummites Tell All.” The Unex -
plained 12, 135: 2686–2689.
———, 1983. “Ummo—Red Alert.” The Unex -
plained 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.
Unholy Six
Ac c o rding to George Hunt Williamson, six
solar systems housing planets peopled by
“n e g a t i ve space intelligences” exist in the
Orion nebula. The “Unholy Si x” live on
dying worlds, and they plan to destroy the
E a rth so that they can have access to its res
o u rces. The Orion group has its own subve rs
i ve agents on Earth, working with them to
u n d e rcut the work of friendly, pro - h u m a n
space visitors of the Space Confederation.
Though incapable of entering the Eart h’s atm
o s p h e re in their own spacecraft, the Un h o l y
Six project their intelligences into the brains
of certain eart h l i n g s .
Williamson wrote that the underlying cause
of conflict between the Space Confederation
and the Unholy Six is that “the former are
Deists and the latter are Ideists.” In other
w o rds, the Space Confederation believes in a
divine power to which all are answerable, and
the Unholy Six believe only in the primacy of
the “id”—the power of the individual. “Fo r
countless millennia there have been no possibilities
of reconciliation between these
g roups,” Williamson said (Williamson, 1959).
See Also: Williamson, George Hunt
Further Reading
Williamson, George Hunt, 1953. Other Tongues—
Other Flesh. Amherst, WI: Amherst Press.
———, 1959. Road in the Sky. London: Neville
Spearman.