Alien planet Ummo and the fight for legal rights: “I have the truth”

What happened in Aluche and San José de Valderas in 1966 andFile or daily Information– provided credibility by interviewing alleged witnesses, they were the media prelude to an event half a century later It continues to have many unknowns that need to be resolved and have legitimate exploits. He may have to go to court. Movistar’s documentary series about the phenomenon, which is scheduled to premiere next November, has ignited the legal battle for intellectual property rights that will correspond to the author’s two children, Maite and José Luis Jordán Moreno, as legal heirs.

First, a professional psychologist collaborated on the production of three episodes of the series, while her brother, who was also a psychologist, wanted to be able to participate in the productions in defense. According to the complaint, the “legacy and honor” of his father and work is something that has been denied to him. “The show only tells one side of the story, because rebuttal versions like mine are contractually forbidden. According to the press release released by Movistar about the series, they make an unfair summary judgment from the deepest subjectivity without owning intellectual property,” explains José Luis Jordán Moreno in his family home. They came to the spacious living room, floored with blue carpet, where his father was now denouncing his “insulting” campaign “since 1988”. Even to record some broadcasts of the successful mystery and occult science program ‘Más Allá’ presented by Fernando Jiménez del Oso.

Author of numerous books and articles on parapsychology and esotericism, and his father, vice-president of the Spanish Parapsychological Association, Jordán Peña, an expert ufologist, appeared regularly in magazines and television programs during the Franco regime and the early years of democracy. He was also one of the attendees of a curious meeting set up in the basement of the old building. For lovers of the occult, a few meters from Plaza de Cibeles is Café Lyon called Ballena Alegre. The meeting was moderated by Fernando Sesma, spokesperson for the Friends of Space Visitors Association. One of their mottos was “Believe in everything until proven otherwise”.

Created in the 1950s, some members of this group began receiving letters from a supposed extraterrestrial civilization living on a planet called Ummo “14 light-years from Earth”. in those lettersThe so-called ummahs, which had personalized and limited distribution—sometimes went to only one recipient, others to two, three, or more—explained their sciences, cultures, languages., their alphabet, their politics—”they were a democracy; My father had already spoken of politics in an advanced way”, recalls the son of the author of the phenomenon, and among other things they sent so-called patents for technological inventions that could not yet be developed on Earth.

“It is difficult to lay out the fundamental differences between our Civilization and yours in a few short paragraphs, because we know that there are certain Art forms (painting, sculpture, especially music), although our scientific and technological level of education is much more advanced. they were brought up to a higher level by you”, reading the first of nearly a thousand letters sent, all compiled based on the informative and “trusted” website, ummoinforma.com, created by his son and Gema Lozano. Developed by Juan M. Aguirre Ceberio for non-commercial purposes.

The typewritten letters explained by the Ummits were written by a human, The messenger of his message, whose identity was kept secret until 1993, is Jordán Peña, one of the witnesses of the alleged sightings. and said that he was always ignorant of the subject, which is considered to be the inventor of the phenomenon. According to his son, “Ummo was pressured to say who was behind it, and I have evidence to prove it.”

José Luis is grieving these days before his family is revealed to the public. Now a businessman and specialty coffee consultant, the psychologist’s friends know the skepticism he has always had towards his father’s transcripts, slurring the matter on their toes, recognizing the importance of the subject. “I didn’t want to, I kept quiet all my life; For years they tried to pressure me to get information and I always refused… but now they forced me to speak up. Only I have the truth”, he justifies.

Last weekend, during the premiere of the first episode of the Ummo documentary series at the Sitges Fantastic Film Festival, José Luis jumped out of his seat in anger when he saw pictures of himself and his mother when they were little. Before being invited to leave the room, as his wife did, he shouted at the end of the projection, “Weird ones, there’s Ummo.”

On debut, he began handing out a handout to some of the attendees in which he unraveled his story: “I find myself in the despair of a producer, Pseudo-approved by Telefónica without real informative interests or rightsbecause I wouldn’t give up on them as heirs, they might affect my rights and the memory of my father and even the reputation of a work that might have at least some positive intellectual property”.

The importance of the phenomenon initiated by Jordán Peña is undeniable. Hundreds of books, articles and websites have been written about him, even translated into Japanese or Romanian, and he has had and continues to have many followers who have earned him a reputation. The alleged views and events regarding these Ummit entities have spread all over the world, with particular interest in Latin American countries or France. HToday there are Twitter profiles in which the so-called Ummits continue to spread their knowledge. Ummitas dolls are even sold on nerdy Internet portals with the logo invented by Jordán Peña, with two reverse bracket symbols.

“Look, this is one of the dice my father used for letters.”, showing his son a logo-marked wooden block in his father’s office, an object that is de facto one of the great treasures of national mystery. Using the logo printed on the photos allegedly taken during the sighting of a ship, It was used by the Edelweiss sect, which was developed in the 70s by Nazi and pedophile Eddi González in the guise of a mountain club.

According to José Luis, while some writers from the occult world had nothing to do with him, there was a practice he believed would repeat in Movistar’s series the analogies of this cult to discredit his father. , “as stated earlier in the press release”.

The moral and patrimonial rights of the author are on the board of the upcoming legal battle. “There are two moral rights, the acknowledgment of authorship, something Telefónica did not do, and the right to the integrity of the work. Distorting or damaging the work is also an infringement of moral rights. And inheritance is using the work without permission,” his lawyer states. “He just wants recognition for his father’s work and authorship.”

“Telefónica has already been informed via email and bureaufax that she does not own all the rights to the name Ummo, who directed the series. When one says ‘Ummo, an alien Spain’, Ummo should be named after copyright and José Luis Jordán Peña”. According to José Luis, Movistar went further on 3 August, requesting to register the Ummo brand for commercial use. According to the son of its creators, this is something they have no right to do and could lead to lawsuits.

Sources of Lacima, the production company that produced the series, defend themselves by reassuring that they are making a “documentary series”. “We understand that everything we do is legal, it’s a series with perspective, and it tells the truth from one place,” explains co-producer Luis Ferrón. Meanwhile, a Movistar spokesperson argues that Ummo “is not based on any work with intellectual property rights.” The fact is that Jordán Peña, who died in 2014, never registered the trademark. Reminding that the letters were distributed on a limited basis and posted on the Internet without his permission, his son says, “Although it is not registered, it is still a valid right.”

“My father chose a group of educated people who were open to understanding or believing in extraterrestrial life. When he wrote the letters from 1966 to at least 2006, he did not want them to be exploited commercially,” he adds.

The discussion also weighs in on the brothers’ confrontation over their father’s legacy. In this sense, José Luis assures that the series aims to use “respectable journalists” such as Rosa María Mateo, Juan Ramón Lucas or Andrés Aberasturi. “Do a so-called sociological study that remains cheap propaganda for self-aggrandizement, questioning whether my parents were good parents.” The son of Ummo’s creator, “Maite became the ringleader of my father’s ‘haters’, with a brazen and outdated series against the tolerant, democratic, progressive and respectful spirit that informed all of Ummo’s work in which he treated the Spaniards as uneducated”. .

The other heiress, Maite, is in touch with this newspaper, assuring that although she has not watched the series, she still has no “criteria” to judge her. “We can’t criticize because we haven’t seen it; it would be a baseless idea to talk without doing that, it’s inappropriate”, agreed the psychologist, who at the same time took part in a highly critical edition with his father in one of the last books on the phenomenon. ummo. Unbelievable truthby journalist and author Eduardo Bravo.

“I told my story that is mine and I have every right. and all the property to do it”, says Maite, the person who sees himself as the “victim” of his father. The ufologist’s heir at the same time adds that his brother’s attitude is inconsistent, because on the one hand, he guarantees the existence of Ummo, and on the other, he wants to record the creation of the planet.