Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth – LOVE AND MARRIAGE
On Itibi Ra II, couples fall in love, marry and have children as we do, but, Pallmann was informed, marriages normally break up soon after the children enter an ‘educational centre’ when they are about six years old. (The ‘seven-year itch’, it seems, is not restricted to Earthlings.) At first shocked by this custom, Pallmann came to appreciate the fact that, if monogamy were practised on Itibi Ra II, some marriages would have to last for 400 years or more! Sam pointed out that, although incompatibility between marriage partners was normal after the seven-year period, compatibility, resulting in long-term unions, did occur.
Such unions did not require the sanction of the equivalent of a registry office ceremony, or even a formal exchange of vows. Satu’s current union (with a woman from another planet), he told Pallmann, had lasted for 90 years.
Having also learned from Satu about the erotic behaviour of the Itibi Rayans, Pallmann had initially considered including some details in his book, but the publisher had advised against it. ‘Actually, all I wanted to do was to describe the very healthy and natural behaviour of another civilization,’ he explained.
Yet Pallmann, too, imposed censorship. ‘There are matters on which I have had to maintain my privacy,’ he wrote earlier, seemingly contradicting his later remark. ‘As far as I am concerned, and especially as far as the sexual habits of the Itibi Rayans are concerned, I have tried to reveal exactly nothing, and I believe I do have the right to do this, simply because our own sexual habits are far from free.’
On 26 February 1967, Satu sadly informed Pallmann that his people had received orders to evacuate their plantations in South America. The following day, he was taken back by spacecraft to the Peruvian highland lake where he had originally been picked up.