65° - 01.09.1967, Síða 31

Report to the Central Committee by amalia lindal
Dear Sirs:
In view of the astounding discoveries I have
made on this first visit to Earth by one from our
planet, I take the liberty of dispensing with a
more formal greeting and saying merely, “Jupiter
Ammon!”
Although this might seem a frivolous greeting
under the circumstances, it is by no means ir-
reverent or irrevelant. As the Earth Division of
the Explorational Research Department of Jupiter
has recorded, during the centuries of Roman and
Greek dominance of Earth civilizations, the name
of our planet was in common usage, applied as it
was less to a real knowledge of our great planet
than to a local deity who, however, was accorded
to be the greatest of all worshipped deities.
Yet although it has been some twenty years
since Earthlings first picked up our radio waves
and although they are currently obsessed with
reaching Mars (they have not yet managed to
reach their own moon), a smaller and infinitely
less developed planet than our own, it was with
exaltation and a warm sense of welcome that I
heard several older Earthlings express these same
words. Sometimes they said, “Jupiter Ammon”
and sometimes, “By Jupiter”, but in both cases
the approbations expressed both power and
wonder. By these involuntary exclamations, the
more meaningful because they were involuntary,
it became obvious that we are by no means un-
known or forgotten on Earth.
As a matter of fact I wonder whether Earth-
lings may not possess certain psychic abilities
with which they have not heretofore been credit-
ed, for on my emergence from my space sphere,
which unfortunately landed in a large building
which Earthlings call a “chicken coop” — a most
unsavory place containing an abundance of
spherical white objects not unlike our space craft,
the first words spoken by the Earthling attendant
were, “By Jupiter!”
At this point I should like to thank the Depart-
ment of Psychical Research on Primitive Planets
and the Electronic Duplication Division for
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having enabled me to adjust myself to the situa-
tion.
Almost instantaneously I was enabled to per-
ceive the difference in the outer guise of Earth-
lings and to speedily duplicate the appearance of
this earth specimen, who called himself a Yankee
farmer named Matthew, so as to seem similar to
him though not identical. Thanks to my instant-
electro-duplicating button (hence referred to as
IED) my transformation into a fellow Earthling
was so immediate that the farmer believed he
must have imagined seeing me in my Jupiterian
form.
In the moments it took him to scratch his head
(to be explained later) and examine some of the
other white objects, which are called “eggs”, I
had the opportunity to record his entire mental,
physical and spiritual history, thus making his
the first acquisition to my brain reservoir.
Before I explain more of what this acquisition
contained, I must relate some outstanding ob-
servations made in my too-short acquaintance
with this farmer and his reproductive counter-
part, who is called, “wife”.
Instead of our spheriod bodies with our an-
temna, paddlecrawelers and wings, all neatly con-
tained in a bubble not larger than three centi-
meters, earth size, I was astonished to find that
Earthlings have a vertical size of about one
hundred and fifty centimeters and a horizontal
size of at least fifty centimeters and weigh at
least sixty kilos — veritable giants! (This is the
reason for my capitalizing the word, “Earth-
ling”.)
A touch of my IED button was sufficient to
increase my size, reduce my horror, and observe
other details more closely in order to assimilate
them. The Earthling’s body is composed of a box-
like part containing in its upper portion a breath-
ing apparatus and a perpetual motion machine
called a “heart”, and in its lower section a pro-
cessing mechanism for fuel and waste disposal
as well as a reproductive mechanism. This latter
function differs according to the two genders into
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