While attending a UFO symposium in Mexico in 1994, I had the honour of meeting a Portuguese lady (whose name I can’t reveal) who wished to discuss with me a problem she had encountered during the previous year. We met in a bar in the Federal District and, for two hours, she spoke of her concerns about a strange Bolivian cult called the Daughters of Ummo. This was the first I’d heard of the group although, as a ufologist, I was familiar with the Ummo mystery (see article below). When I explained that I couldn’t investigate this group immediately because I had to complete some work in Chile, the lady became very nervous and left without another word.

I didn’t finish my Chilean magazine assignments until the following year, but in the summer of 1995 I travelled to Bolivia to find out what I could about Ummo’s Daughters.