D505 How the fraud concerning the Turin shroud was perpetrated.

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UMMOAELEWE

No. Copies 1

Language: SPANISH

Subject: Denunciation of the Shroud Fraud

Date: 12-XI-1988

Dear OEMMI

 

We are of foreign origin. We arrived on OYAGAA (Earth) at a point situated at La Javie (FRANCE), around 28 March 1950.

 

We know perfectly well that this mere introduction is enough for the content of this message to be dismissed automatically. No doubt you will think that the signatories of this missive are mentally unbalanced, or perhaps that some pranksters are hiding behind this strange identity for very murky purposes.

 

That is why we beg you to forget this unfortunate preamble and to identify us as citizens of your country who fervently wish to get in touch with you and to make a: VERY SERIOUS DENUNCIATION.

 

We know that such a murky matter must be taken with great reserve when those who sign are perfect strangers, with no other guarantee than an anonymous letter and no other proof than those derived from a supposed identity that is inadmissible for sensible minds like yours.

 

That is why we invite you to read to the end and judge accordingly. No doubt you will ask yourselves about the reasons that have moved us to write you this matrix of typewritten data. We are saddened by the gigantic fraud committed, for it concerns a singular man whom we identify as an OEMMIWOA. (Christ)

 

A biological rarity who, within your possible taxonomic classification, would be classified as the sole representative of a different species, different of course from that of “Homo sapiens-sapiens” (in its present evolutionary phase).

 

That around his figure a gigantic social movement called Christianity has arisen, under different denominations, is an undeniable reality which we all strive to respect, although we do not share its beliefs. We believe, however, that the faith shown by so many millions of OEMMI (men) sufficiently expresses the importance we attach to this sociological event. Apart from the biological importance we attach to the emergence of the OEMMIWOA in the course of the evolution of species.

 

Indeed, the endowments of the genotypes of men differ in essence from that of the OEMMIWOA (God-Man) generated, and this mutation is not the fruit of divine intervention as you believe, among other reasons because the essence of WOA / God/ is radically different from the way the theologians of earth imagine it. The emergence of this OEMMIWOA is governed by the laws of chance, although its intrinsic rarity makes it very valuable in the eyes of researchers and an obligatory case of study for those who take a close interest in these specific problems.

 

This gestation has taken place on a large part of the cold stars we have visited. On all of them it is observed with real curiosity, with superstitious expectation, and with scientific rigour in those civilizations whose scientific level is very high (there has been a case in which the OEMMIWOA did not appear, despite the advanced stage of technological development).

 

But the new phenotype has very subtle characteristics brought to light by our scientist OYIIA 64, the subject's capacity for consciousness increasing exponentially and consequently his freedom of free will, up to the limit allowed by the evolution of species.

 

At that point an impressive phenomenon occurs that calls into question the whole of Physics known to you.

 

Although in other messages delivered to your brothers in Canada, France, Spain, Australia and the Soviet Union we have clarified this question, we wish to point out to you that this explains how around that figure a sociological movement developed that has no parallel among other religious denominations. This is the obligatory preamble, given the importance of the subject we are going to deal with.

 

THE SERIOUS DENUNCIATION OF THE FRAUD

 

Do not on any account interpret our sadness as induced by religious motives, which, although very respectable, have nothing in common with the ethical motive of our indignation.

 

The gravity of the matter is truly appreciated if you consider that this forgery delays by many years the historical resolution of a great problem and therefore reduces the possibility of shedding light on a cosmological enigma.

 

We give a portion of history about the antecedents of the imposture we are commenting on. Indeed, these preliminaries will serve you to explain to yourselves the attitude adopted towards the Shroud, describing and relating in passing the gestation of the fraud.

 

It is necessary to recapitulate the vicissitudes of this cloth up to 1929, the date on which the substitution took place. The gravity of the theft becomes evident if you bear in mind that the Shroud is an inestimable document that certifies the existence of Josuah (JESUS, as we will call him in this documentary matrix from now on). No other piece of this event has been recovered, since the rest of the relics preserved, we can testify, are the fruit either of fraud or of a biased interpretation of the facts.

 

The oldest that is preserved dates from the 2nd century, and an appreciable percentage of pieces may be considered to date from the 8th to the 14th centuries.

 

The cloth that wrapped the body of Jesus was impregnated with substances among which was aloe to soothe his wounds; its absence from the sample analysed is irrefutable proof of its later imprinting.

 

The cloth was kept secretly by one of his disciples, an agricultural sharecropper called Semah or Semahel, who was one of those present at the event of the ENNESIBIAEEOO (for you, the Ascension)

 

An instant characterized by its degree of awareness, caused by a dysthymic emotional condition that alters the limbic system and produces the disappearance of the body of an OMMIWOA (towards another Universe) (Ascension). It is understandable that so marvellous an event should have inflamed a people prone to the marvellous and to giving a magical meaning to what it did not understand.

 

The Shroud was kept at first by Stephen; after he was murdered it passed into hands unknown even to us, to reappear again in the possession of Proclus in the 3rd century. Until, on the capture of the city of Edessa by the Persians, the Templars finally rescued it, and the secret was revealed with great secrecy to the monarch BALDWIN II, and it remained hidden until it was recovered by you in the manner already made public.

 

Your credulity is surprising when, after the fraud we are going to comment on had been committed, the sensationalist press airs the naive report of Pierre D'Arcis in 1389, "testifying" that the Shroud is false on the basis of a painting of the features they claim to observe in the imprint on the fabric. The good faith of the bishop of Troyes did not annul so peculiar an assessment, which has been exposed by the simple modern techniques of OYAGAA (Cold Star Earth).

 

One is astonished to see the stupidity of the reporters who wield such an absurd argument today, without even documenting themselves. An assessment that would be explicable in the 14th century with such rudimentary expertise, but is absurd in the year 1988.

 

Secondo Pia undertakes in 1898 the task, arduous for that time, of photographing the Shroud using electric lighting. Its owner then was the man who was to be King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III.

 

This brother Secondo Pia makes a great discovery on making the 50 x 60 negatives on orthochromatic plates. Both plates, during the laboratory session, revealed their normal structure in all its expressive beauty. His discovery was impressive and the news soon reached the ears of the Vatican Hierarchy.

 

The members of the curia are surprised, since until then it had been considered a fraud and therefore dismissed, and they demand an exhaustive report. It was precisely the biologist brother of yours Paul Vignon who discovered the mysterious effect of the cloth. Ammoniacal vapours react with the aloectin (do not forget that the cloth that covered the body of the OEMMIWOA; bore ALOE as a healing ointment) This, in contact with the fabric, generates a brown product with a certain degree of viscosity that impregnates and stains the fabric.

 

It was the said doctor Vignon who alerted a few officials when he made a tremendous discovery: The blood of the “corpse” is “moist”. On different occasions a similar expert examination is carried out. Yves Delage and other eminent biologists support the thesis... How is it possible that they did not realize?

 

Barbet himself is astonished. Coagulated blood leaves no lasting trace, and those responsible know it. Moreover, the marks of binding that would correspond to a corpse do not appear on the body, a point that has been “forgotten”. An operation is set in motion to “eliminate” the evidence with the secret design of uncovering the “Imposture” in case it should be revealed publicly. It was a very grave decision.

THE PRESENCE OF BLOOD DEMOLISHED AT A STROKE THE PREMISES ON WHICH

CATHOLICISM IS FOUNDED. /Death on the cross /

 

It must be stressed that the (vaporographic) hypothesis of Dr. Vignon (Doctor of natural sciences) is correct, together with that of Dr. René Colson (Physicist, member of the Academy of Sciences of Paris). That is, all the experts testify to it since in 1532 Cardinal Luís Gorrevad examined it carefully and reached the same conclusion. They were undoubtedly the discoverers of the authentic imprint of Josuha, and it must be stated with admiration, before the Shroud was exchanged in the course of this execrable imposture.

 

A few cardinals are in the secret. Those who had knowledge of the matter would not have numbered fourteen. It was not known at that time that the cloth could be dated with such precision, and it was then hoped that the traces of fresh blood would simply be eliminated. It was also intended at that time to add the marks that a non-existent bandage would have left, falsifying the impression; we will see how the result turned out differently.

 

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First Attempt.- A 17th-century cloth was used, the imprint being forged by means of a wood carving carefully treated with aromatic substances. Then an attempt was made to add the false binding or bandage by means of a band of cloth some 14.cm. wide.

 

The final cloth was finally photographed with plates similar to those obtained by Secondo Pia. The result was extremely crude compared with the authentic proof. The superimposed images hardly coincided, and colour tones were not possible without adding products that a serious expert examination would have ended up unmasking. Unfortunately the appearance of the traces of the bandage made the deception utterly manifest.

 

We were not on earth at that time, hence we have serious gaps in the living picture of the facts. We do not even know the exact date of the events, which took place between 1911 and 1916: it seems that a new attempt was made in June 1918. Some time before, Cardinal Gotti, prefect of the work for the propagation of the Faith, and the man who was Cardinal of Baltimore (United States of America), Monsignor Gibbons, had agreed in 1911 to hide it from Pius X and his successor (Benedict XV) on the grounds of the scandal the exchange represented.

 

The scandal caused on verifying the haematic elusion revealed by the holy shroud is incomprehensible. At that time it was held for certain that this proof invalidated the crucifixion with death. However, you yourselves have verified that in certain circumstances -rupture of large vessels- bleeding was possible even after death had occurred. In any case, the bleeding from the other wounds was difficult to explain because of hypostasis. (The wounded man was laid on a bed inclined some 28° degrees).

 

The present state of the false Shroud is not explicable by fibrinolysis; it is understandable that an artifice had to be resorted to in order to save a fact that was incomprehensible.

 

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Second Attempt.- For this one a texture almost similar, from the middle of the 19th century, was used. A wood carving was also used, but making use of the careful projection of the original Shroud. Beforehand, the cloth was sensitized with silver bromide, which was made to disappear by subsequent washing.

 

The imprinting was also achieved by impregnation and vaporization, the figure obtained being carefully retouched by means of Secondo Pia's proof and comparison with the original cloth. The burning of two central lines and an exact reproduction of the seams were skilfully done. The different changes of tone required meticulous treatment, and the traces of the binding, which did not appear on the original and were therefore suspicious, were definitively removed.

 

Once the forgery was finished, the proof was submitted to a small commission which, despite the perfection obtained, agreed to reject it. A chemical change after a short time, which would make the deception evident, was feared.

 

The two following attempts- (the first in 1920 to 1922 and the second in 1926) we know that the technique was changed, using an overheated ¿? metal sculpture. Unfortunately both cloths were destroyed. It seems there was a regression in quality, not withstanding comparison with the old Shroud. It has been possible to reconstruct the process followed in making the forgery.

 

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Third Attempt.- At last the definitive apocryphal piece is achieved in November 1927; let us look at the facts. It was the era of Mussolini, and relations with the dictator were somewhat delicate. In 1924 two kinds of fabric were procured, obtained in Jaffa (Palestine) and in Nantes (France).

 

The first: two cloths of 4,6 and 5,1 metres respectively, their manufacture dated to the 16th century although in reality we know it was woven much earlier, from 1220, in 4-type twill with the structure you call "herringbone"; its count is very irregular, 10,2 in the weft and 3,3 in the warp (the count is given in British No.).

 

The values are appreciably different from those of the authentic Shroud (today hidden), whose values were: weft 8,3 and warp 4,2; in both cases the direction of twist is identical. The twill obtained in France is discarded because the dimensions of the piece were not valid: 3,7 x 2,1 metres did not serve for the project.

 

Definitive Operation of the Fraud.- The production of the cloth as you know it today begins in NOVARA (Italy, March 1927). An effigy of cast iron, carefully hollowed in the form of a shell, was used. Inside it a series of electrical resistances was arranged, each controlled by a rheostat, located on a large marble panel with as many handles. The life-size statue was held in the supine position (face up), with a rod cooled artificially with cold water by means of internal circulation.

 

The cloth was covered with another sheet of silk sensitized with gelatine and silver iodide, already developed with Secondo Pia's original, and the effigy was covered with the cloth. Its temperature ranged around an average of 248 degrees and a maximum of 410 degrees.

 

An imprint of the fabric was obtained, which was retouched over several months by means of a small plate with an electrical resistance. It was carried out under the direction of Giovanni Coccioli, care being taken that the bloodstains “did not impregnate the fabric”. It was not possible to change the colour to the diluted carmine left by fresh blood. They took care to place two coins on the eyes (which do not appear on the original of the authentic Shroud), thus replacing the bandage. The restoration to perfect the image took some time, as we have said. The final retouching uses the technique of gentle rubbing and washing of the only part of the sheet by means of diluted serum, and likewise washing in other areas with a solution of sulphuric acid in water at various concentrations.

 

This variety of techniques has misled the present expert examination, the technicians being determined to establish a single method that would explain the process by which the imprint was obtained.

 

We wish to congratulate the men, very few and now deceased, who got it right: Doctor Casselli, Geoffrey Ashe, the Reverend Fr. Busnelli, Dr. Rogers and above all Dr. Vittorio Delfino Pesce, who in 1987 came closest, pointing out that the holy Shroud had been forged by means of a metal bas-relief heated to 230° degrees.

 

FIRE (On the night of 3 to 14 December 1532).

 

The high temperature of the Chambéry fire produced on the authentic Shroud a brown or sepia colouring, explained by the fact that the high temperature produced a distillation of the cellulose of the linen, which spread through the affected zone. The forging of the traces produced by the fire was done with great mastery. Cloths similar to those used by the Poor Clare nuns in that unfortunate event were available.

 

This forgery was possible thanks to the rudimentary reproduction technique used by Secondo Pia. It was impossible for a layman to observe the difference. In November 1927 Cardinal Gasparri and another cardinal not identified by us gave their approval to the cloth. The secret commission decides to inform Pius XI, but the proposal does not prosper, since it was considered that the Pontiff would refuse the fraudulent exchange.

 

At last, around the spring of 1929 the Shroud is secretly exchanged behind the back of the house of Savoy, owner of the relic until 18 March 1983.

 

The original is kept in the residence of the cardinal of Turin, and for the reproduction of the copy of the Shroud the original key of the enclosure containing the piece on the Bertola altar was forged, with the secrecy the case required.

 

In 1931 they await with unease the proof by Giuseppe Enri, without any difference being detected. The imposture had succeeded.

 

But STURP (Shroud of Turin Reseach projet) launched enthusiastically into the study. The scientists began the study unaware of what had been plotted behind their backs. Thus Doctor Max Frei revealed palynologically the imprints of the Shroud in 1.937, the pollen samples.

 

It is attested that it is impossible to reproduce in the Middle Ages the true image of the passion with the non-existent anatomophysiological knowledge of that time.

 

But there are serious doubts: thus Langton Fox considers it impossible to separate a single blood clot from a piece of cloth without damaging the impression left by the blood.

Moreover, Dr. Walter McCrone (1980) warns of the discovery of Iron (iron oxide) in microfibrils of the face; all this fills with confusion the honest researchers, who do not suspect the manoeuvre.

 

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The NASA examination of the Shroud is conclusive. The imprint is digitized in three parameters at each point, that is, each spot of the image is represented by coordinates representing position (X.-Y), and the coordinate represents the tone of colour, so that the whole materializes the image. The examination with the V. P-8 finally determines the three-dimensionality of the image, demonstrating that the figure has not been painted and is a reflection of the imprints obtained by the unknown "radiation". The error remains floating in the air: if the imprints are neither biological nor the product of corrosion, such as sulphuric acid might be, nor an effect of rubbing, since hardly any residues of material are found between the fine fibres of the fabric.

 

What could the imprint left by the body be? Suppose that we men of Ummo were not with you and had not discovered the fraud so masterfully done. Suppose you reach the conclusion that the imprint left on the Shroud is not due to natural causes, and the idea is reinforced that it was produced by the presence of an overheated body, such as a semi-incandescent metal statue.

 

But we have the certainty that the holy Shroud dates at least from 1453 Could it not be that at that time the figure of Jossuha (Jesus) had been forged by means of an overheated statue, which would explain the mystery? But the effigy would have to be accompanied by knowledge of Medical Pathology incredible for the time. On the other hand, the dating by Radiocarbon (C14) corroborates the suspicion. Supposing that the dating did not exist or were mistaken, we would have to suppose that a radiant body imprinted its trace on the Shroud, leaving a photographic impression of itself.

 

See for yourselves how you have discovered the fraud without even resorting to our help.

 

Forget about our origin and suppose that we are liars, or mentally disturbed people with a systematized delusion of extraterrestrial origin, or a group of pranksters

           

1.- The tests carried out in Zurich and Oxford by means of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry have proved definitive in the Carbon 14 dating. It cannot be alleged, through ill-informed correspondents, that the sample bears carbonaceous excrescences that would adulterate the result. The samples were carefully washed before the determination, and the rigour with which the examination was carried out leaves not the slightest doubt.

 

Nor is it any use speculating about spurious radiation that might have disturbed the sample.

 

If that had been possible, the radiocarbon would have increased its value and the result, on the contrary, would date the fabric to before Jesus.

 

(Why do you deny value to the scientific verdict of carbon 14 and yet accept the conditions that suit you?)

 

2.- If the 1988 determinations are accurate, we must conclude that someone in the 15th century forged the imprint.

 

3.- And that "medieval Someone" had prodigious medico-legal knowledge in order to:

 

a). Obtain a perfect photographic negative when photography was still unknown.

 

b). Obtain a correct three-dimensional image, anticipating the 20th-century analysis by NASA.

 

c). Know what the crown of thorns was really like.

 

d). Know the exact anatomical point of crucifixion, in the zone you call Destot's, when at that time painters depicted the nail of the torture in the palm.

 

e). Know exactly what the marks of torture were.

 

f). How they dared to paint a naked Jesus at a time when modesty prevented such representations.

 

g). How they could forge with such precision and so much !!20th-century!! erudite knowledge a semi-incandescent figure.

 

Ponder it and study the case deeply, and you will come to understand it, even if you despise us as anonymous informers.

 

The end is very bitter and came in October 1988. Cardinal Edw. Cassidy dared for the first time to inform a Pontiff of what was happening. John Paul II, on being informed, flew into a rage followed by a fit of dejection. He immediately summoned a very small nucleus of cardinals who had knowledge of the fraud.

 

Cardinal Tomko was in favour of telling the truth, since it was not possible to exchange the Shroud either. John Paul timidly supported him in his stance, while Cardinal Ratzinger firmly opposed it, alleging most serious reasons of scandal. Moreover, the reasons that had provoked the imposture still stood: the discovery that Jesus had not died on the cross.

 

The motive was most serious, and the criterion of closing the scandal prevailed, it being decided that it should be uncovered immediately, contrary to what is ordinarily done in similar situations. It was Cardinal Anastasio Ballestrero who was charged with getting a sample of the fabric to the laboratories.

 

ATTENTION

 

At the dates when the exchange of the Shroud took place we were not yet on OYAGAA. It has been very laborious work to reconstruct the pieces in order to give them, patiently, a sufficiently consistent structure.

 

Unfortunately it has not been possible to obtain many details of the fraud committed. And many witnesses have died without leaving any record of the crucial facts of the mystification. You will forgive us the part of the necessary omissions. The testimonies we transcribe have indeed been verified beforehand.

 

Although we arrived at the time when Pius XII was on the pontifical throne, until 1964

We had no knowledge of the fraud (until the pontificate of Paul VI.) We are sure that the pontiffs are not involved at all. We have only some doubt regarding Pius XII. But it would be slander to impute it to him without the minimum conditions of proof. It was only possible to obtain reliable information about John Paul II.

 

Another question that calls for clarification is the exact date of the imposture. On this we are certain. Although the month of April 1929 was chosen to exchange the Shroud, replacing it in the casket where it was deposited, the fraud was thus consummated. It was the decision of Cardinal Gasparri, accompanied by another colleague of the curia, who exchanged the cloth.

 

You will have to regard this date of December 1928 as constitutive of the grievous event (it has not been possible to find out the day). That is why we regard that date, 1928, as the date on which the crime was consummated.