El hombre que susurraba a los Ummitas

by J.J. Benítez

Aunque jamás se apartó de la investigación, J. J. Benítez regresa a uno de sus temas los ovnis. Y lo hace con un caso especialmente polé «ummo». A partir de 1966, y durante más de veinte años, un grupo de ciudadanos recibió decenas de cartas y mensajes procedentes, al parecer, de una civilización los «ummitas». La polémica no se hizo esperar. ¿Se trataba de un fraude? ¿Qué había de cierto en aquellas comunicaciones? El hombre que susurraba a los «ummitas» será de obligada lectura para quien desee saber qué fue lo que sucedió en aquellos años.

324 pages, Hardcover

Published April 17, 2007

About the author

The works of J. J. Benítez encompass literature and journalism, as well as UFO investigations.Primarily renowned as an investigator of the paranormal, Benítez garnered attention and criticism when he released Jerusalén, the first volume of a series named Caballo de Troya, related to the life and death of Jesus Christ. He begun his journalist career in January 1966 in the newspaper La Verdad, after receiving a journalism degree from the University of Navarra in 1965. He published his first books in 1975, Ovni: S.O.S a la Humanidad and Existió Otra Humanidad.

During his three decades as an author, he has published more than 50 books, including investigative reports, essays, novels and poetry, and sold more than nine million copies worldwide. As of May 2007, 7 million copies has been sold from the first 8 books of the Caballo de Troya series. He has also directed a TV documentary series called Planeta Encantado, in which he travels to 17 different countries in order to render his interpretation of some of the great unsolved mysteries of past history.

Reviews

[Owlseyes · Rating 4 out of 5]

"In the Earth year of 1950 (March) we arrived on this OOYAA (planet). About two years before in 1948 we picked up a low frequency signal 413,44 megacycles which we were unable to decipher. It had been sent out in 1943. Subsequently we identified it as the radio signal emitted by a Norwegian ship up in Newfoundland..."



"Ummo (dans la transcription espagnole « initiale ») ou Oummo (en prononciation française) est le nom d'une prétendue planète qui se trouverait à environ 14,4 années-lumière de la Terre, suivant les « révélations » faites par l'intermédiaire de divers courriers dactylographiés et appels téléphoniques reçus à partir du milieu des années 1960, en grande majorité en Espagne mais également dans d'autres pays.
Ces lettres auraient été écrites par des membres d'un groupe présent sur Terre depuis le 28 mars 1950, se présentant comme émissaires d'une civilisation extraterrestre, les « Ummites ».
Soupçonné depuis longtemps d'avoir fabriqué les lettres ummites, José Luis Jordán Peña, se présentant comme l'initiateur de l'affaire, a reconnu en 1992 qu'il s'agissait d'une supercherie qu'il avait poursuivie pendant 25 ans.*" (From WIKI, French version)

Some years ago I was baffled at the advanced nature of scientific knowledge the "ummite letters" contained, as well as the fact that they showed up in different parts of the globe, seemingly, in an "independent" way.

"El hombre que sussuraba à los Ummitas" ("The man who whispered to the Ummites") is a book where one of the main "conduits" of the communications (Jose Luis Peña) is referred as a sort of liar: he presumably worked in a company as engineer and psychologist, when in fact he was not (that qualified). But Jose Peña later on said the Ummites told him to do so ("lie"). You go figure.

The book has plenty of drawings and photos of sightings in Bolivia, Brazil and Spain; but most common are the spacecrafts with a sort of "H" in the underbelly (check the book cover).

Benítez travelled extensively to those nations and interviewed many people connected with the sightings.

It starts with a South African case; Harry Mallard's case.

("Near the mountain, in the shadow zone, an object was landed. The man invited me to follow him")
«Al pie de la montaña, en la zona de sombra, se hallaba posado un objeto. El hombre me invitó a seguirlo.» (Dibujo: F. Ghot.)


Here are some of the conclusions Benítez expounds at the end of the book.

1-"UMMO" is not what you're told; it wasn't investigated with rigor and seriousness.

2-After 10 years of successive interrogations, Jordán Peña doesn't deserve credibility. (The author charges Penã as mentally 'unbalanced' and of being a liar)

3-The author admits, nevertheless, part of the UMMO affair may be true.

4-The military and the CIA knew about the UMMO affair before the invention of the H letter, or supposedly invented, by Peña and his accomplices.

5-The sign of the UMMO in ufo's and their crews is very old (1,000 years, maybe), as with the ethnic Dogon in the heart of Africa makes proof, and other sightings elsewhere on planet earth.

6-And yet a question remains: who's behind those letters? The author says Peña and the CIA are not the ones responsible for the presence of the spacecrafts (whose presence some letters has predicted, namely. in Bolivia and Spain).

7-If the Ummites exist they don't seem to be tall and blond (Nordic) as their letters state them to be. Most of the beings which carried the letter H in their 'clothing' were short, some wearing a 'spacesuit'; yet, in the Curitiba case (Brazil) one was blond.

8-In the UMMO phenomenon there are still unexplained or paranormal facts.

9-One thing is for sure: the manipulators of the Ummo affair, had been themselves manipulated. Non-humans have manipulated humans?

*UMMO (in the initial Spanish transcription) or OUMMO (in French pronunciation) is the name of a presumed planet to be found around 14,4 lights-years away from earth, according to revelations made through several letters and phone calls in the mid-1960’s, mostly in Spain but in other nations as well.
Those letters would have been written by the elements of a group present on planet earth since 28th march 1950, as they presented themselves as emissaires of an extraterrestrial civilization, “the Ummites”.
Jose Luis Jordan Peña, supposedly the one who fabricated the ummite letters, and presenting himself as the initiator of the affair, acknowledged in 1992 that it was a fraud he pursued for 25 years.

[Jacint Casademont · Rating 3 out of 5]

El cas Ummo és un tema que m'ha fascinat des de que era menut. Aquí J.J. Benítez aquí investiga, en primer lloc, els antecedents "ummites" abans de tota l'explosió espanyola i després es dedica a analitzar el tesimoni de Jordán Peña per saber què hi ha de cert en les seves paraules. La teoria de l'autor és que part de la història és certa, la humanitat ha rebut la visita d'"ummites", i Jordán Peña sabia del tema, però no tot estava manegat per ell. Esperem que algun dia es resolgui el tema o, jo em conformo, amb un documental com cal explicant la cronologia de pe a pa.

[David Mora · Rating 4 out of 5]

Presenta ideas bastante interesantes, pero la organización de la información es, a mi parecer, mala, las notas de página en algún momento se vuelven los protagonistas de las páginas, para luego volver al texto normal, desconcierta mucho, en algunos casos la narrativa de como llego la información a J.J es interesante, en otra se siente como si sólo alargará el libro, fuera de eso, lectura obligada para entusiastas de la ufología.

[Joao · Rating 3 out of 5]

Termino a leitura com dificuldade acrescida. As últimas páginas adquirem um ar de suplício. Há luz da atualidade este livro parece inútil. Apenas o caráter e a solidez que JJ Benítez implementa nas suas investigações sobre a fenomenologia dos OVNI, a par das últimas evidências partilhadas pelos EUA, tornam este livro uma leitura aceitável na atualidade. Fica como objeto de estudo sobre a mentira e a nebulosa que a confunde com a verdade. Muito tempo antes das Fake News e das Redes Sociais baseadas na internet

[Saúl Girón · Rating 2 out of 5]

Definitivamente, un tema muy interesante. Lastimosamente, el autor (para mi gusto) cae en demasiada información q resulta en aburrimiento. Me sucedió lo mismo con la zaga Caballo de Troya, en el 4to tiré la toalla! 🥴
En fin, estamos solos? No lo sé. Nunca he tenido una experiencia de ese tipo. Lo q sí es cierto es q sería demasiado pretencioso creer q el Universo entero fue hecho exclusivamente para nosotros. Sería demasiado desperdicio de espacio!

[Loredelcarmen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Llegué a la conclusión que no se sabe quien ha estado detrás de este tema mintiendo o diciendo la verdad? hay mucha manipulación, hay mucha gente mentirosa como se ve en el libro. Aunque la investigación para este libro es muy buena, aún queda la duda que tan cierto hay en todos estos testimonios y cartas?