SUBJECT: HIGH STRANGENESS IN FRANCE FILE: UFO3139
ALIEN ENCOUNTERS
12.HIGH STRANGENESS IN FRANCE
That UFOs can harm humans, we already know; they can also, though
less frequently, heal. Both the beneficial and the deleterious effects
on human tissue seem to be brought about by controlled radiation, most
probably in the microwave frequency band.
An early case, investigated by Janet and Colin Bord at a time of
considerable European UFO activity involving entity cases, occurred on 8
November 1954 in Croydon, Surrey. Philip Molava, aged thirteen, was out
of doors late at night feeding his rabbits when he saw a small discoid
object fly past him at close quarters. Next day he became very ill and
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was taken to hospital with suspected food poisoning, lying in bed
partially paralysed. He reported that at 2 a.m. three cloaked figures
appeared out of a mist that had materialised beside his bed. He lost
consciousness, but next day was found to be completely cured. He said
that following this visitation he had experienced a number of out of the
body experiences (OBEs) and received telepathic messages about impending
dangers to humanity. (Randles 1988)
That case in some ways prefigures a much stranger and more
important one which, though it illustrates very well two areas I wish to
consider, I would scarcely dare to quote were it not attested by two of
the most respected names in French ufology. The full story has never
been told, according to Jacques Vallee (1990), although the original
encounter was investigated by Aime Michel and reported by him in two
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well-known articles published in Flying Saucer Review (9/69 and 11/71)
These first reports described how Dr. X, at the age of 28, had suffered
severe war wounds fighting in Algeria, such that he was left with a
permanent disability affecting the right side of his body. Ten years
later, on 31 October 1968, he also accidentally cut a vein in his leg
while chopping wood with an axe, producing severe haemorrhage and
inflammation. Three nights later he was still in pain from this when,
some time after midnight, he was awakened by the crying of his baby son,
who was standing up in his cot and pointing to a bright light visible
through the shuttered window. He gave the child a bottle, opened the
window and stepped out on to the balcony, only to see two identical
discs, later estimated as having a diameter of one hundred feet and a
height of fifty feet. Each had a vertical antenna on top and a
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horizontal one at the side; they were emitting small sparks between
their horizontal antennas, which therefore must have been on different
sides of each disc, so that one disc would be the mirror image of the
other, a significant point supporting the suggestion that the apparent
duality was in fact an optical illusion. The two discs then merged into
a single object that moved slowly towards the witness, shining a white
beam downwards and then suddenly moving to a vertical alignment so that
the beam shone directly at the doctor as he stood on the balcony. The
UFO then vanished with a bang, emitting a "bright wire" which flew up
into the sky, exploding like a firework. This is the same sort of
pyrotechnic display observed by Colonel Halt at Rendlesham.
If the purpose of the display was to impress the visit on the mind
of the witness, it was certainly achieved, especially as Dr. X
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discovered that not only his war wounds but also the recent haematoma
produced by his axe mishap had both vanished as swiftly as the UFO
itself. About a fortnight later an area of skin around his navel
reddened into an equilateral triangle with six inch sides, which
disappeared after a time. The same pattern appeared on the body of the
baby and both were subsequently replicated annually, perhaps as a
reminder of the existence of a debt of gratitude. A bone fracture
suffered later by the doctor also healed spontaneously and exceptionally
rapidly.
Eleven years after the original incident, Jacques Vallee first
made the acquaintance of Dr. X and learned that the UFO sighting had
been only the prelude to a series of quite extraordinary events which
seemed to suggest that the intelligence controlling the UFOs might be
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much more intimately concerned in human affairs than had hitherto been
generally supposed.
About a year after the miraculous healings, Dr. X was on holiday
in southern France when he began to hear a whistling sound inside his
head, in the same way that Ed Walters at Gulf Breeze had been contacted,
together with a strong mental suggestion that he should return to his
hotel. When he did so he found that someone was waiting to speak to him
on the telephone. The caller told him that they were soon to meet in
the doctor's home town to discuss what he had seen. Back home, he again
heard the whistling sound and felt guided to a place where a stranger,
driving the latest and most expensive Citroen car, awaited him. The man
was tall, with brown hair and piercing blue eyes, conventionally dressed
in a smart suit. He began by apologising for the outbreak of poltergeist
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activity which had recently troubled the doctor's household, though it
is unlikely that he was claiming to be the direct cause of this; but it
is frequently the case that, when a door into an alternative reality is
opened for an individual, one can never be sure what entities may make
use of it. Presumably Monsieur Bied, as the doctor decided to call the
stranger, had opened this door and indeed he later caused Dr. X to
experience teleportation and time travel, together with an episode on a
road that does not exist in our world, in an alternative landscape that
probably exists sometime else.
M. Bied often appeared unannounced in the doctor's garden and on
one occasion came into the house, accompanied by a three feet tall
humanoid whose skin had a mummified appearance. Furthermore the doctor
often felt that aliens were present around the house. These happenings,
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as can well be imagined, were very distressing to Mme. X. An incident in
1971, however, rather suggested that 'M. Bied' was also a person of some
importance in Paris, perhaps even a government functionary.
It happened one day when Dr. and Mme. X were expecting luncheon
guests. He went to move his car out of the sun, but was then overcome by
an impulse to drive into town, where the mysterious M. Bied awaited him,
telling him that they had to go somewhere. He then found himself lying
on a bed in a room in Paris, near the Ministry of the Interior. From the
window he saw M. Bied's car entering the courtyard below and being
saluted by the sentries there. There was a telephone in the room, so he
called his wife, who told him that twenty minutes had elapsed since he
had left the house and their guests had just arrived. Some time later he
saw M. Bied's car drive out and then found himself once more at home,
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ready to join his guests but quite bemused by the strange happening.
Jacques Vallee suggests that there is yet more to be told, so perhaps
one day we shall know the rest of the story of this peculiar
relationship between a provincial medical practitioner and a being who
seems to commute quite effortlessly between worlds.
The idea that "they", or at least some of "them", are living here
among us without our knowledge has been around for quite some time; when
St.Paul (Hebrews 13.2) wrote that "some have entertained angels
unawares" he doubtless had in mind Abraham (Genesis 18.2) and Lot (Ibid.
19.1 seq.) entertaining three and two angels respectively. In Lot's case
hospitality to his guests is said to have saved him from death in what
sounds very like a nuclear holocaust with which they destroyed Sodom and
Gomorrah. The sacred writings of many ancient peoples contain anecdotes
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suggesting that supernal beings frequently visit mankind, but there is
of course the corresponding suspicion that infernal entities may do so
too. Humans should therefore keep their wits about them in such
circumstances, and cease thinking of 'angels' as pretty youths in white
nighties.
Somewhat sinister individuals collectively known as Men in Black
(MIBs) are often believed to be alien sojourners in our midst. In
America UFO contactees frequently report being visited by black clad men
in Cadillac sedans, both of which disappear as soon as they get round
the next corner. The alleged government agents who visited Ed Walters in
Gulf Breeze, demanding the surrender of his photographic evidence of UFO
presences were, in their brusque and hectoring attitudes, typical of the
kind of individuals ufologists know as MIBs. In Bolton, Lancashire, a
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young female receptionist named Shelley McLenaghan, walking the few
yards between the bus stop and her home, was abducted one afternoon in
January 1976 and suffered severe after-effects. She and her family
subsequently endured a series of unusual phone calls, followed by a
visit from two men in dark suits, one of whom had lost an arm and was
called 'The Commander'. These men harshly interrogated Shelley and her
parents for two hours and seem to have attempted telepathic thought
manipulation. (Randles 1988) If the usual claim of MIBs to be government
agents is investigated, official sources invariably disclaim all
knowledge of them, but they would do so even if they were genuine.
Whoever they represent, the efforts of MIBs are invariably directed to
the suppression and confiscation of any evidence which might tend to
validate the reality of UFO close encounters.
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Some "extremely terrifying statements" which claim that a
successful clandestine occupation of strategic areas of our planet has
already been completed, that "all is over bar the screaming" are
referred to by Gordon Creighton in his editorial to Vol. 35, No. 4 of
Flying Saucer Review, dated December 1990 and making reference to a book
entitled The Matrix by one "Valdemar Valerian", otherwise John Grace,
published by Arcturus Books in Georgia, USA in very limited and highly
priced editions. Although uncertain whether any credence can be given to
this publication, Creighton observes that "there seems to be
overwhelming evidence for the presence here of many more than just one
species of 'Alien'." What we really need now, however, is equally
overwhelming evidence of their identities and intentions. Creighton,
however, urgently believes that "a powerful force from outside of
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mankind is engaged in driving us, like the Gadarene swine, over the
cliff and into the abyss ... "Demonic possession is nothing new. All the
great Religions have warned of it. But evidence now accumulating
suggests that ... sinister non-human forces are now engaged in a broad
plan of genetic-sexual tinkering with our species." - FSR, Vol. 37, No.
1, 1992.
Though an individual may be quite unable to resist manipulation by
aliens, humanity's strength, if such attacks are really in prospect, may
lie in its powers of co-ordinated action and sheer weight of numbers. If
there are several kinds of alien, those most inimical may be contained
in alliance with others less so for if, after the dust of these
ufological controversies has settled, the final conclusion turns out to
be that there are both good and evil forces at work in the world, one
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would have to be extremely ingenuous to find this either novel or
surprising. Religiosity and secularism alike have blinded us to the
stark ethical imperatives which ineluctably confront humanity in this
age of decadence just as they have always done, while our predominantly
sheltered urban modes of living have encouraged us to forget how feral
Nature functions. There is no reason to suppose that UFOs are either
invincible or supernatural, even if their existence may oblige us to
recognise that the natural realm has many more mansions than we had
previously imagined.
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