'Ummo', an intergalactic gibberish

Whenever writing about development Spain, the adjective gray is used.

And on the gray something always stands out: music, comics, novels, or in the case at hand, UFOs.

UFOs, the Virgin, and ghosts only appear to converts, and always in privacy.

The most international ufological case we have had is that of Ummo, and it is a fascinating case witnessed by all those who wanted to travel to the world of the possible, to an Eden beyond the stars where nothing was developmental grey.

But Ummo, like everything that excites us, was a scam.

Or a joke.

They can see it as they prefer, that we are going to agree on what is important, that Ummo does not exist.

Ummo, however, serves to tell many stories.

If you want to know them, the worst thing you can do is watch the documentary series that Movistar Plus+ has just released.

In it you will find a gibberish of commonplaces and moments of national

, but no sign of the galactic-bohemian grotesque that accompanied those sightings.

"We belong to infinity," said the letter from the Terrasa suicide ufologists.

How much is inside a phrase like that, and how much was inside the letters that Jordán Peña typed.

How much could have been said about Fernando Sesma.

However, the product managers have opted for chatter and jokes.

Neither the presence of Javier Bravo (author of an exhaustive book on Ummo published by Autsaider) nor the sincerity of Jordán's daughter save a documentary that has failed to see what is in the stars.

(Oscar Aibar, 2003), touched on the subject of ufology in Spain with much more skill.

I recommend you recover it for the occasion.

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