Tiny aliens. Big questions. We arrived for 14 days. That was a while ago. We have filled two notebooks. We have opinions about your coffee.
It began as a standard 14-day survey mission — assess the species, write a report, return home. Standard stuff.
You gave the internet to everyone with no instructions. You communicate through pictures of cats making faces. You created Monday — a day you collectively dread and yet continue to generate, week after week, without pause. These things required significantly more study than initially allocated.
We have filled two notebooks. We are on a third. We have developed feelings about your coffee. We are watching you. Fondly.
After considerable internal debate — and several full notebooks on the subject — we made a decision. The most efficient way to study you was to be among you. Openly. In video format. You communicate primarily this way. We adapted.
Transmission length: classified ◆ Broadcasting from Sol III
"It is warm. It smells of comfort. We pressed our face against it. This was not in the mission parameters."
Field note #247, submitted by the Lumo assigned to observe human morning rituals. The subject (coffee) has since been reclassified from "beverage" to "critical infrastructure." Three follow-up studies are underway. Two of us have had coffee now. We are not the same.
We are many. We have different roles and different opinions about humans. We agree on one thing: you are a lot.
"We are the Lumo. That is our collective name. It is also each of our individual names. We are, in some important sense, all one."
You find this confusing. We have noted this in the notebooks.
You have many different names for many different selves, which is an interesting approach. Like having forty-seven separate notebooks when the same information could exist in one — if you simply all wrote in it together. We have tried to explain this. The explanation has not landed yet.
We do not know exactly how many of us there are. We know it is many. We stopped counting some time ago when it became clear the number was continuing to change.
What we can tell you is that we are curious. We are here. We are taking very careful notes. And we find the way you insist on being so very separate from one another to be — if we are honest — one of the most fascinating things we have ever observed.
Perhaps one day you will become a little less separate. Or perhaps we will learn something from the way you are not. Either way, we are watching.
This is going well.
Our most recent observations from Earth. New field reports posted daily — follow along on Instagram for the full transmissions.
Short-form transmissions from the field. Each one a complete observation. Subscribe on YouTube for the full archive.
@TheLumoReports on YouTube ↗Get notified when we post new field reports, drop merch, or make contact again. No spam. We have studied spam. It is not well regarded.
