Case file · Close encounter
Aluche 'Ummo landing'
On 6 February 1966 people in the Aluche district of Madrid reported a disc landing; the Ummo letters later claimed it as one of their craft.
1966 CE · 40.39, -3.76 · status: hoax
The account
Witnesses described a lens-shaped object with the symbol )+( on its underside, the emblem that would soon appear on letters signed by beings from the planet 'Ummo' sent to Spanish writers and scientists.
The sceptical view
The whole Ummo affair was a hoax run from Madrid; the psychologist José Luis Jordán Peña admitted authorship in 1993.