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During
the second part of the night of November 1 to the morning
of November 2 of 1968, Dr. X, was sleeping in his room when
he was awakened by his son’s calls (he was not crying).
Seeing his wife was still asleep, the Doctor rose up with
some difficulty without turning on the light, and crossed
the corridor from one room to the other. At that point,
he became aware, although not paying attention to it, that
a storm seemed imminent. He found his son standing up in
his crib exclaiming and pointing very excitedly towards
the window. The window blinds were of the solid kind and
closed, but the small openings at the top and sides allowed
the doctor to see the intermittent light of what he at first
assumed to be flashes of lightning. While he was switching
on the room light, it seemed like there was a mighty wind
blowing above the house, while the rain whipped against
the walls, the tiles, and the blinds.
Curious
about those flashes of light, the Doctor decides to investigate
their source. Looking through one of the windows, he saw
what appeared to be two identical luminous objects, the
one on the right seeming to be a little smaller and slightly
above and behind the other one. Initially, the Doctor was
under the impression of seeing either two cigars or two
circular objects seen in profile. Each object consisted
of two superimposed parts that are markedly symmetrical
throughout their horizontal extent, the upper portion appearing
perhaps to be thicker. The colour of the upper part appears
to be a luminous silvery white, but much less so than the
full moon. The colour of the under part is a deep sunset
red, brighter at the top than at the bottom. No structure
can be distinguished in either the white or the red portion.
No variations either.
He
can distinguish some vertical antennas on them. They seem
to be as the same colour and the same luminosity as the
upper parts of the objects. The length is apparently equal
to the thickness of the object. The bases of these two antennae
are thicker than their upper part. The two other horizontal
antennae seems to be of the same colour and brightness and
apparently of the same length. However, these horizontal
antennae are more slender and do not appear to be thicker
at the base. They are seen as a silhouette in the red portion
of each object and extend beyond it slightly. Their bases
are located at the junction point where the red and the
white parts meet. They are parallel and pointing slightly
towards the left of the witness. At this moment, only one
horizontal “antenna” is visible on each object,
any other possible “antennae” being hidden by
the objects.
The
lower centre part of each object is emitting a vertical
cylindrical white shaft of light – brighter throughout
its whole extent than the witness could have expected from
a simple beam of light – which, as it passes through
it, illuminates the thin storm mist hanging in the valley.
The source of the two beams of light is not discernible
at that point. The two objects display in unison a cyclic
luminous activity of a periodicity that is perceived to
be about equal to one second. It begins with white flashes
that give the witness the impression that they are “entering”
through their external antennae, then another flash shoots
out between the two objects, linking the tip of their horizontal
antennas. The Doctor felt a strong impression that the flash
shooting out between the two objects is a consequence of
the external flashes. He said: “It seemed to me that
the two objects were sucking in the atmospheric electricity
and that I could see it entering through the antennae and
then exploding between the two objects, the whole thing
producing one single glow of light.” The flashes are
white, not dazzling, and are silent. The form they take
is a slight prolongation of the antennae in a straight line,
without any spreading, and with a slight trembling movement.
Their intensity is the same as the intensity of the vertical
beams of light.
At
the beginning of the sighting, the two objects were moving
as one unit towards the left, at the same time approaching
slightly nearer to the Doctor. The two objects continued
their movement in the same direction and at the same apparent
speed. Then the two objects performed a rotation on their
axes; the witness now discovers that the external horizontal
antennae are performing the same luminous “absorption”
activity as the inner antennae. They seem to lie on one
single straight line which appears to be parallel to the
trajectory of the two objects seen by the witness. Now located
side by side, the Doctor described the objects of identical
size, and presenting their horizontal antennae symmetrically.
At the same time, the sources of the light beams become
visible on the lower surfaces of the objects: it is a sort
of protuberance of the same red colour as the lower surface,
but of a darker shade. The two objects commence a new manoeuvre
that consists in drawing near to each other, increasing
their the luminous activity. At this moment, the witness
observes that the lower spotlights of the beams are approaching
each other, then they interpenetrate each other and become
only one spotlight. For a brief instant afterwards, the
inner antennae touch, and at once all the luminous activity
ceases on all the antennae, which however remain luminous.
Darkness falls once more over the countryside. Meanwhile,
the two objects continue to draw closer to each other. The
inner antennae interpenetrate each other and then disappear
entirely when the two objects come into contact. There is
now only one object, absolutely identical with the two antecedent
objects except for one detail … at the precise moment
of their complete unification, Dr. X sees for the first
time “something that is moving” in the red (lower)
portion of the object.
At
the same time, the leftward movement stops, and the object
begins to come straight towards the witness, growing rapidly
in size, while the light beam cuts a straight path across
the plain towards the house, and the moving structures of
the red portion appear more and more clearly visible. The
object grows in size until it is enormous. Around the light
beam, its light and the light from the object dimly light
up the houses and the trees. When it halts, the lateral
antennae are seen as precise prolongations of the juncture
points of the two portions, upper and lower, ”like
a chicken on a spit”. The white upper part presents
nothing singular as regards either colour or brightness.
The upper antenna is merely an extension upwards. The device
from which the cylindrical light beam shone out had the
appearance of a ringed corona, on which Dr. X is able to
count, bounded by black lines, six sections on the side
that is visible. These sections appear with the distortion
due to perspective, wide in the centre and narrowing towards
the edges. But it is the domed red (lower) part that presented
the most impressive features. This part was also divided
into ”sections” but, it seems, in violation of
the laws of perspective. Of the eleven visible sections,
five (the paired sections) were traversed from top to bottom
in about four seconds by a dark horizontal line “like
the lines that move across a TV screen when you are adjusting
it”. The moving line descending cyclically appeared
like an intense deepening of the colour, with shading off
on each side. The witness was unable to detect any coordination
between the respective movements of the five lines. It merely
seemed to him that when one line was disappearing towards
the bottom, another one was appearing above. All the red
portion of the object gave the impression of incandescent
metal or of internal lighting.
Although
all this animation of the red portion seems to have occurred
in violation of the laws of perspective, the vertical bands
were wider towards the centre, right opposite the witness.
The activity in the red portion lasts for a period that
the witness is unable to estimate subjectively, for he is
obsessed with the movements of the horizontal lines. Meanwhile,
after a period of time which seems long to him and during
which the object remains totally immobile, he sees the spotlight
move towards him, slowly at first, over a distance of a
few metres, lighting up one by one the telephone poles and
reaching the top pole. This movement of the spotlight was
the result, not of the objects having come nearer, but of
a rotation around the axis formed by the two horizontal
antennae, which rotation tipped the upper part of the object
towards the valley and revealed progressively more and more
of the lower surface. Suddenly, the rotation speeded up
in an astonishing fashion and the doctor was hit by the
light beam, which shone all over him as well as probably
over the whole front of the house. The total duration of
the rotation was brief – of the order of a second.
Meanwhile, Dr. X had sufficient time to observe the lower
surface of the object, which appeared to be circular and
divided into radial sections. He does not remember whether
the movement of the lines was still visible in the sections.
He had the impression that the corona from which the beam
of light emerged was growing wider towards the periphery
as the object tipped. During the tipping, the witness was
frightened, and at the moment when the light beam reached
him, he instinctively covered his face by a reflex action.
At
the moment when the object was presenting its lower surface
vertically, there was heard the first sound since the beginning
of the sighting, namely a sort of “bang” while,
according to Dr. X , “the object dematerialized”,
leaving behind nothing but a cloudy, whitish, fleecy shape
which at once disintegrated and was borne away eastwards
by the wind. At the same time, there came from the centre
of the space occupied up till then by the object, a sort
of very luminous, fine, white, straight thread, which shot
out vertically in a fraction of a second towards the sky
and vanished there, forming, apparently at a height of several
hundred metres, a small white shining dot which itself then
vanished with the noise of a firework. The darkness having
returned to the valley, the witness experienced a nervous
breakdown. Deeply shaken, he immediately went back in the
house and went to the previously-mentioned clock to see
the time: it is 4:05 a.m. Ten minutes have elapsed since
his first visit to the kitchen. He gets a notepad and writes
down the details of his sighting along with sketches. Then
he awakens his wife and tells her what he has seen. Both
are very deeply moved. Suddenly, Mrs. X cries: “Your
leg!” And, in fact, Dr. X, who is walking to and fro,
talking excitedly, no longer limps, and has completely forgotten
his leg injury that was produced recently while chopping
wood. Dumbfounded, he turns up the pyjama trouser-leg: the
wound is healed and the swelling has disappeared along with
the pain – never to return.
Dr.
X and his wife discuss the incident for half an hour and
then go back to bed. Ten minutes after he has fallen asleep
again, Dr. X starts talking in his sleep – something
that has never happened to him in his life before. Disturbed,
his wife listens for a while and then finding that what
he is saying relates to the phenomenon seen by him, she
turns on the light and takes notes. She puts down this statement:
“Contact will be re-established by falling down the
stairs on November 2nd.” At about 7:00 a.m., the doctor
stops talking. Mrs. X turns out the light and goes to sleep.
She awakens again at about 10:00 a.m. and, seeing that her
husband is still sleeping, she gets up without waking him.
He sleeps on until 2 o’clock in the afternoon.
Sketches
produced by Dr X. describing the witnessed craft/s and the
sequence of the sighting.
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The
mysterious triangular mark
In
the days that follow, the doctor is under the impression
that the wounds inflicted during his service in the Algerian
War (which had remained unchanged for ten years) have completely
healed. The nervous breakdown and the distress that had
followed the events of November 2 are however so painful
that he feels ill and cannot be sure of their disappearance.
He has lost weight and his features show great wear.
That
same day, cramps and pains appear in the umbilical region.
They persist, more or less acute, throughout the following
week. On the evening of November 17, he begins to feel an
itching and tingling around his navel, and a red cutaneous
pigmentation of striated appearance develops. By midday
on November 18, this pigmentation has assumed its final
form, namely the shape of a perfectly geometrical isosceles
triangle with a well-defined perimeter, measuring 17 cm.
on the base and 14-15 cm. along the sides. At the same time,
the pains, itching and tingling cease suddenly and entirely.
More and more worried about this preposterous phenomenon,
the doctor and his wife telephone French ufo investigator
Aimé Michel. This triangle certainly has no known
precedent in the annals of Ufology, but he is reminded of
the cases of irradiation reported on several occasions,
and advises him to have a thorough medical examination.
This is done, that same day. The medical examination is
negative: the dermatologist can find no explanation for
the phenomenon, which he considers so astonishing that he
wants to make a report about it to the Academy of Medicine.
Dr. X is little inclined to such publicity. Curiously, the
next day, he calls Aimé Michel again, and says: “I
think we must discard the psychosomatic explanation because
the same triangle appeared last night on the stomach of
my son. It is exactly like mine and located in just the
same place. It doesn’t seem to be painful, for the
child pays no attention to it.
It’s
important to point out that similar objects to the one described
by “Dr. X” were seen in Spain on the same day
and on the previous evening, and then again on December
7 in Morocco and on December 9.
Photographs
of the strange triangular marks experienced by Dr. X and
his son.
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