Carelessness

Do not find it disturbing in a fine-sensitive wise when I so suddenly intrude upon you at this early time for you, but this, however, is of necessity: due to some inattentiveness from you, disturbances have occurred that I have to fix. Your inattentiveness lay in the fact that you have moved too carelessly with film and photoshoots in the last weeks. You were a little careless. The consequence of this is that some people have become aware of certain things of which they are not supposed to have any knowledge, since they can damage our cause.

But there was also a carelessness on my part, because when I demonstrated flights to you for your film and photo purposes, I also paid too little attention to the surroundings, because I had to concentrate too much on my ship and your cameras. So it escaped me, as it escaped you, that some people observed your efforts and wondered about your actions. Some of them followed you unnoticed afterwards and then did research on your person, encountering things they would not have been aware of. Thus, three of these people took steps to enlighten your actions in certain places. This is particularly true of two places where you were able to take important pictures of my ship.

The danger created by these carelessness on our part is of less importance to you than it is to our cause itself and to certain research findings which would be made by appropriate investigations of your scientists and which would not benefit the human beings of your world in their present development. These scientific research findings could be obtained on and in the Weather trees that I have used as objects of comparison for my flights. They absorbed radiation from my ship and absorbed it because I came into its immediate vicinity or even touched it with the ship.

This radiation, which is absolutely harmless to any form of life, lasts for several months and could be detected and analysed by your scientists, which would mean a very rapid increase in their research and knowledge. But not powerful in things, they would cause devastating catastrophes, which we cannot allow because it would be the direct fault of our carelessness.

But since our technology etc. does not allow us to simply paralyze the radiation absorbed by the trees or to remove it from the trees, there is only one possibility left, namely to eliminate these trees in the past, whereby of course all memories, written down documents and photos etc. are also eliminated at the same time. There will be no remembrance of these trees in humans, exactly according to what I once told you about such eliminations.

This is the important message that I had to give you today, with the provision that in the future you should not be so careless about these things. Be aware that everywhere there are sources of danger and that many people on Earth have anchored their existence very much in the negative. This is also one of the reasons why we always make our landings in such a way that we cannot be observed, because there is always the danger of radiation being emitted, which could be detected and analysed by scientists if it were caught by anything.

Therefore, the landing locations must also remain largely secret, which must also be understandable and obligatory for your group members. As internal group knowledge and possible research on your part, there is nothing wrong with our side if trust and discretion are maintained.

In principle, this is of course possible as far as your last question is concerned; and I could also justify this exception if you tell me that you do not give any information to anyone other than your trustworthy friends and trustworthy group members about where the two mentioned places are for the time being. Under these circumstances, I would not eliminate the film and the images and your memories.

Unfortunately, I cannot give my consent to this, but I can promise so much that I will leave them a very wide unconscious presumption of memory, which will appear to them as something indeterminable.

I have expressly pointed out that things should only be sold and handed over to persons who are in conformity with your group.

That is absolutely irrelevant.

You may call the name of the person, because I know him through your conversation, because I overheard him as well. I still have to stick to my purpose. That may change over time, of course, but for the time being I have to stick to my purpose. You can have the person examine the crystals and minerals analytically, of course, but only if the origin of the things is not mentioned with a word. I must make this my destiny, because I have already explained that dangers lurk everywhere.

First of all, I was interested in your conversation as a continuation and transformation of the whole complex built up by my mistake. It should therefore be understandable that I also overheard this conversation. Second of all, I found Mr Jacob’s remarks delightfully amusing and at the same time also very joyful. Even though there was a certain sting in his words that may have escaped you, they were words of honesty that he spoke. I knew that he was very understanding, but that he would react in this way, that was not likely for me, because I do not draw on the view of the future for everything and because on the other hand I do not want to penetrate into his innermost things. But I would also like to give him the feeling of my gratitude, because he acknowledges that also our way of life needs further development and we therefore make mistakes, which he accepts in the form that he does not become reproachful; in other words, and in another sense, that he excuses my actions, which were faulty.