RES: [UA] Ummo en Recife

[Mario Magallanes]

DL escribió:
> 

> 
> Yeah, i love my dirty old and dark city. :)
> 
> Some pictures of it:
> 
> http://www.recife.pe.gov.br/cidade/projetos/recifec/postal/index.html
> 
> http://www.recife.pe.gov.br/cidade/projetos/fotosdorecife/index.html

Nice pictures. I specially like the colonial buildings.


> 
> Recife have about 5.000.000 habs. Is a nice number. :)
> High criminality on its peripherical "bairrios". Its "bairros" in portuguese
> actually. What i call in english? Neightborhoods?

I think that's the word, yes.

> 
> Anyway...daughter os what? Ummo are not some ET related stuff?

It's the most famous UFO-related case in Spain. It happened 30 years ago
and involved a supposed UFO landing, and the so-called "Letters from
Ummo". Actually, it has been some time since Ummo was revealed as a
fraud, but the whole thing has grown out of proportion so much that
there have been sects, child abuse and unresolved crimes involved. The
aforementioned "Daughters of Ummo" seems to be the last manifestation of
the Ummo phenomena.

>From an UA perspective, I think these cases are interesting they rest
mostly on belief. At the time of the UFO landing, supposedly there was a
number of witnesses who saw it. However, further interviews with locals
couldn't find any witnesses. Still, most of them believed it because the
papers said it so. The guy who faked the letters and the land markings
confessed a long time ago, but these crazed stuff about Ummo keeps
appearing. I guess people will believe anything despite proven facts and
common sense.

> 
> Brazil have a famous case, about something ppl called "chupa-capra", but
> that was far from here.

The ones I've heard of happened in Mexico and Centroamerica. From what I
recall, the chupacabras seems to be a cross between a vampire and a
Grey. Then again, maybe I'm too influenced by the Conspiracy X version
of it.

Mario Magallanes
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