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D57-4 Discovery of the Earth - Arrival and first days
OUR FIRST DAYS ON PLANET EARTH
In the preceding reports we gave you a historical summary of our arrival in the vicinity of DIGNE (FRANCE), Department of Basses Alpes. Three of our OAWOOLEA UEUA OEEM (Spacecraft of lenticular structure) descended at a point situated at a height of 7.3379 Km. (U-C Note) near the said French town. The instant of our OAWOOLEAIDAA (That is what we call the physical process of inversion of the subatomic corpuscles that allows such ships to orient themselves along another axis in their space journeys) has been recorded by us, in its Planet Earth time version, as 4 hours 16 minutes 42 seconds G.M.T. (With a margin of error of ± 6 seconds). Date 28 March 1950.
(ATTENTION) On 8 November 1965 we sent, through a brother of ours, UDIIE 36 son of UDIEE 34, then in the United States, a short, very summarised report on our arrival on Earth to the terrestrial Physician Dr. Peters Welter. Our brother gave as the time of arrival 4 Hours 23 minutes (without specifying a probable margin of error). More careful investigations in the conversion of our dimensional Time data, comparing them with the record of radio signals emitted at those moments by transmitting centres of the French Republic and of the Helvetic Republic and detected by our equipment, have made it possible to correct the first time estimate, which was made by comparing the barometric and thermal curves of a French meteorological observatory with our own data on the terrestrial Atmosphere at the time of our arrival.
Six of our brothers (four GEE and two YIEE) descended that early morning (See the report we sent you). We related to you that the first operation carried out was to excavate a gallery to house the expedition members’ equipment and to serve at the same time as a shelter protected against a hypothetical attack by the terrestrials.
Synthesized foods were stored in this gallery, enough to allow our brothers to survive for 240 XII (One Xii is equivalent to one rotation of our Planet: about 30.9 hours).
On 29 March the work of fitting out the underground gallery was completed. It was necessary to speed up the cooling of its walls to allow the storage of the material (Terrestrial engineers may be surprised by this detail concerning cooling. But our methods of excavation differ from the terrestrial ones. We proceed by melting the rocks, sands and silts of the terrain at a very high temperature, controlling the expansion of the gases, which are immediately transmuted into Nitrogen and Oxygen. Besides achieving greater speed, we avoid multiple side effects, such as the expansions that take place when anhydrite is transformed into gypsum on contact with water (Of course a geological study of the Terrain is made beforehand, but not by means of seismographic methods or electrical sounding, rather by analysing the surroundings with a stereographic procedure similar to Terrestrial X-rays. In this way an image is obtained that reveals not only the composition of the different strata but the location of boulders situated at great depth. The shoring systems bear a certain resemblance to the terrestrial ones (On UMMO, for example, the shoring modules are built “in situ”. The silica and titanium of the rocks, once melted, are tramutated into Magnesium and Aluminium, with which IGAYUU (Metal arches similar to terrestrial centrings) are built on the spot).
We say that it was necessary to speed up the work because of the uneasiness that gripped the expedition members. In the first place, it was not known whether the isodynamic conditions of space would vary in the following UIW (UIW: Unit of Time of UMMO), preventing the return of the rest of the Crew within an acceptable time. In the second place, the previous night the UEWA OEMM (SPACESHIPS) had been moved to a nearby pine forest, but even so it was feared that they might be sighted by terrestrial inhabitants. It was not prudent to keep them parked there, so at 11 o’clock in the morning of 29 March (French time) the explorers and the crew held a moving farewell. We have images of that event. The hands of each one on the chest of his brother, as is our custom, closed the moment of departure; nobody spoke a word. Their eyes said it all. 30 crew members boarded the ships. Soon these began the process of AIAIEDUNNII (The outer surface zones raise their temperature to incandescence; in this way living germs are destroyed and perfect sterilization is achieved. This measure is necessary, since both microorganisms and viruses can be inverted in their dimensions and would make the space journey, reaching our Planet)
The three UEWA rose to a height of about six Kilometres. The explorers watched their apparent disappearance as the second OAWOOLEAIDAA for the return took place at that level.
That same day two of our brothers received the order to make a first exploration at some distance from the Gallery, while the rest continued the work in it.
The entrance to the Gallery is in one of the mountain spurs of that region, not far from the peak of “Cheval Blanc”. From there the whole valley through which the river Bléone runs can be seen. With a good optical instrument one can make out perfectly the buildings of Digne, its old Cathedral, and even, in fragments, the Bès and some stretches of the railway. One can also see perfectly the Hamlet of La Javie and some humble buildings in the surroundings. As an interesting piece of news we shall tell you that the historic gallery still exists, containing part of the original scientific equipment that our brothers carried. Its access is perfectly camouflaged. On the day, perhaps not far off, when we present ourselves officially to the Governmental bodies of this Planet, we shall donate its installations to the French Government as a symbolic token of gratitude from our Civilization to that of the Terrestrials.
The first exploration by our brothers, made at dusk on 29 March, had a result unexpected for us. To you the incident may seem vulgar, and you may judge our deliberation naive or even comic, but the result made a strong impression on our brothers. To understand us better you must place yourselves in the mental frame of some OEMII (MEN) who have just arrived on an unknown Planet, of whose means of expression they knew only some modulated sounds recorded by our radio detection equipment, a jargon which, still unintelligible, did not yet offer a serious basis for study.
At about six in the evening of that date, ADAA 66 son of ADAA 65, roaming the surroundings in the company of another brother, and while they were pulling up twigs and leaves of the unknown shrubs here and there to analyse them later, noticed near two tall trees (they were probably Pines, although the report does not specify) some stones heaped up and blackened. The structure of the rock fragments identified them as limestones. Some ashes scattered round about suggested that they had been used for a bonfire, but that was not the most interesting thing. At 1.8 Enmoo (1 ENMOO = 1.9 metres) they found some fragments of yellowish-white sheet, flexible and brittle, crumpled and full of characters or signs evidently written by human beings. Three of them were stained with faeces. A multitude of unknown flying animals (You can imagine that they would be flies or bluebottles) took flight.
The discovery was judged so momentous that they immediately returned to the gallery. The microscopic structure of those sheets was analysed at once; the texture was unknown to us, for on UMMO cellulose pulp is not used for making paper. The coded signs or types revealed that they had not been handwritten but printed by means of standard moulds. Undoubtedly some liquid vehicle had been used for the printing (PRINTING INK); this was strange to us, for our old systems of Printing characters for reading either used an electrostatic system of projecting coloured powder, or lightly burned the surface of the printed sheet. (At present our systems are based on altering the molecules of the sheet on which the printing is to be done, tramutating them into others of chromatic character; that is, no Ink is transferred by means of a type, but a complex chemical reaction is provoked on the printed surface itself). The presence of faeces was at first an enigma. Analysis of the excrement revealed the presence of epithelial cells undoubtedly coming from human intestinal glands.
A list of probable hypotheses was drawn up. The most supported was to attribute a ritual character to it. Perhaps human beings, when they disagreed with the ideas set out in a written document, smeared it with faeces. Among those suppositions was also put forward what is now evident to everyone (Some shepherd probably used that famous newspaper for hygienic purposes).
The controversy will be better understood if you bear in mind that the UUGEEYIE (CHILDREN) of UMMO are provided after birth with a device placed in the rectum, whose final duct or nozzle comes out through the anus. The faeces are liquefied by a process of transformation by enzymes, and a subsequent process of gelling and electrostatic expulsion removes from the expulsion tube any residues that might remain. It is therefore not necessary to clean oneself after defecation, as terrestrials do. Our ancestors, on the other hand, used a spongy substance for cleaning after defecation.
But undoubtedly the origin of those residues staining the Daily or Newspaper (As we later learned it was) mattered least. Those fragments are now historic for us. The Original, from which one sheet and several fragments were missing, is kept on UMMO just as it was found, preserved in a transparent gelatinous mass at a constant temperature of YIIEAGAA (This is the name of a technique unknown to you by which a biological structure is preserved at low temperature while controlling the temperature gradients at each point, since some zones or tissues of it would not withstand low temperatures without the freezing of water causing the destruction of the cell, whereas other points are best kept at another thermal level)
This copy, famous for us, which constituted the first printed document we managed to obtain, corresponds to an issue of the Daily published in the French language, “LE FIGARO”, Samedi Dimanche 25-26 Mars 1950
The strange characters left our brothers perplexed. The most stimulating and suggestive thing about that strange piece was the drawings and photographs. (We, of course, did not know the naive technique of Direct and Line Photoengraving).
On the page later identified as the first there appeared precisely a curious cartoon signed by a French humorist, J. Sennep. (U-C Note: See, on these pages of "Le Figaro", the magnificent work by Mr. “Jean Pollion") It was a sketch of a Hydrogen Nuclear Bomb on whose nose cone appeared the caricature of a French Politician. The caption read thus:
BATAILLES PARLEMENTAIRES.
S´ils nous embêtent, nous avons la bombe H.
Large headlines could be seen, such as:
L'URSS EST FAVORABLE À UNE SESSION SPÉCIALE DU CONSEIL DE SÉCURITÉ POUR RÉGLER LES DIFFÉRENCES EST - OUEST.
And others
SÉRIE NOIRE DANS L'AVIATION. TROIS CATASTROPHES AÉRIENNES ON FAIT 19 MORTS.
AIDE IMMÉDIATE À L'INDOCHINE.
On the back of the paper, although stained with excrement, an exceptionally interesting image for us could be seen. It showed an adult human being with two UGEEYIE (We could not clearly identify the sex). We later learned that it was a lady with children of both sexes. The cut of your garments could be appreciated (Do not forget that one of our headaches was finding out how you dressed). Above the drawing appeared a text, of course unintelligible at that time to the explorers, which read MONDIAL NURSERY.
To confuse us completely about the type of terrestrial clothing, there appeared on another page of the newspaper (Page 6) a photograph of another human Being (A lady) dressed in the classical fashion corresponding to the theatrical performance of “Malborough” by Marcel Achard, which had just been staged at the Théâtre Marigni.
That documentary discovery, we repeat, was of transcendent importance. But we knew no scientific way of interpreting the characters. There was no direct relationship between images and text. We did not know whether those symbols represented figures, or expressed ideograms, or could be interpreted as representing complex sounds or unintegrated phonograms.
What was that document doing there in the middle of the Countryside? We could not interpret it as having been placed there for us, since the excrement showed signs of having begun to dry before our arrival on Planet Earth.
(U-C Note: To interpret this altitude of the point of descent of 7.3379 Km -which could not refer to a point on the earth’s surface in the vicinity of the Pic du Cheval-Blanc- we see that letter D57-3 says:
“At that time mentioned, three of our OAWOOLEA UEWA OEMM (SPACESHIPS) “suddenly appeared” at a point at an altitude of 7.338 Kilometres above a place situated some 13 Km. from the French town of DIGNE and 8 Kilometres from the village of LA JAVIE (DEPARTMENT OF BASSES ALPES), not far from the border of the Cantonal and federal Republic of SWITZERLAND. It was 28 March 1950.”
This point, above which the ships materialized, could be the one with approximate coordinates: 44º 06’ 40” N and 6º 23’ 30” E. In Google Earth we can check that this point is 13 and 8 Km from Digne and La Javie respectively.
Letter D57-3 also goes on to say:
"The three ships descended rapidly, landing at 4 hours 17 minutes and three seconds GMT.
The extensible legs of the ships barely sank into the rocky ground of an alpine spur, near what we later identified as the Peak of “CHEVAL BLANC”, 2322.95 metres above mean sea level, and the small river “BLEONE”.
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Not until the following morning was it possible to identify the nature of a group of dim lights that appeared at three definite points in the distance.
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The origins of the lights seen at dawn were fully cleared up: they corresponded to the towns or small settlements of DIGNE and LA JAVIE."
It is enough for the descent to have taken place a few hundred metres beyond the point directly below the place of appearance -for example at the spot marked in the image- for Digne-les-Bains and La Javie to be indeed visible. The third group of lights could correspond to Draix. The river Bléone can also be seen)
