Patrick Berlier and Michel Sabatier published about this case in 1984 in the ufology magazine "Lumières Dans La Nuit".
Apparently, the report says that "little after the beginning" of WW1, therefore a date after August 3, 1914, at 04:00 a.m., close to Noirétable, the Loire, France, there was a case without UFO, atypical in its catalogue, because it is a "bedroom visitor", and that he lists it because it is a French case, and that the witness was questioned by Misters Patrick Berlier and Michel Sabatier, whose report was published in the Lumières Dans La Nuit magazine.
One "Mr. Perret" resided in an old house with his mother, his brother, his sister, and his grandparents. His father had been drafted for the war.
He was sleeping with his brother in a room separated by a curtain, his two brothers shared the same bed on the other side of the curtain, his mother and hir sister slept on the other side, and the grandparents occupied the nearby room.
He was awaked by what seemed to be a hand which taps his back. Looking around, he saw a luminous "being" described as looking like a 10 to 12 years old child, with a face white like snow and a dress white like snow going down to the feet, and very shining. He does not remember to have seen hair on the head of the "entity".
All the room was lighted. The being came out of the bedroom of the grandparents while passing directly through the door. It went in direction of the opposed wall, passed close to the bed, looked at the witness and gave him a smile. Then he crossed a second door giving on the outside and disappeared.
A clearness remained in the room during two to three seconds. Mr. Perret, who until then was frozen with fear and could not even speak, started to shout; which awoke all the family.
It is said that a local legend tells that in Mont-Verdun, the night of September 8, 1914, a procession of "beings of light" climbed the steep slope, entered in the old priory and disappeared there.
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[Ref. js1:] JEAN SIDER:
The author indicates that in August 1914, at 04:00, close to Noirétable, the Loire, France, there was a case without UFO, atypical in its catalogue, because it is a "bedroom visitor", and that he lists it because it is a French case, and that the witness was questioned by Misters Patrick Berlier and Michel Sabatier, whose report was published in the Lumières Dans La Nuit magazine.
Mr. Perret resided in an old house with his mother, his brother, his sister, and his grandparents. His father had been drafted for the war.
He was sleeping with his brother in a room separated by a curtain, his two brothers shared the same bed on the other side of the curtain, his mother and hir sister slept on the other side. The grandparents occupied the nearby room.
One night around four o'clock, Mr. Perret is awaked by what seemed to be a hand which taps his back. Looking around, he saw a luminous being having the appearance of a child from ten to twelve years old, with a face white like snow and a dress white like snow going down to the feet, and very shining. He does not remember to have seen hair on the head of the entity.
All the room was lighted. The being came out of the bedroom of the grandparents while passing directly through the door. It went in direction of the opposed wall, passed close to the bed, looked at the witness and gave him a smile. Then he crossed a second door giving on the outside and disappeared.
A clearness remained in the room during two to three seconds. Mr. Perret, who until then was frozen with fear and could not even speak, started to shout; which awoke all the family.
Jean Sider adds that a local legend said that in Mont-Verdun, the night of September 8, a procession of beings of light climbed the steep slope, entered in the old priory and disappeared there. He thinks that this legend suggests the observation could have occurred on September 8, 1914, but that it is not certain, for the date of the incident is limited to the expression "little after the beginning of the war", therefore a date after August 3.
He says the source is "LDLN n° 243-244, octobre 1984, p. 28."
Obviously this has nothing to do with UFOs or UFO occupants or aliens, the "entity" is described as a child. Luminous maybe, odd, but a child.
Thus it needed ufologist to mage it a UFO experience, of the "bedroom visitors" type.
Certainly, it seemed appropriate to find the experience very strange because the "being" passed through the doors, but the simple explanation is that this is exactly what may happen in hypnagogic hallucinations, just like the sleep paralysis, the incapacity to to speak or shout during the experience.
Let's note that although the age is not given, it is quite obvious that "Mr." Perret was not an adult but a child then, and children are particularly prone to very common hypnagogic hallucinations.
The child is "awaked by what seemed to be a hand which taps his back" - note that this shows he was indeed asleep when it all began. But then it is said that the "being" came out of the bedroom of the grandparents while passing directly through the door. It went in direction of the opposed wall, passed close to the bed, looked at the witness and gave him a smile. In other words, the "being" tapped the child in the back before even being in the room... This is a sequential incoherence typical of dreams.
He probably entered hypnagogic state (mind almost awake, body still asleep) because someone put a lighting on or because someone (or the house dog, if there were one?) touched his back.
How and why hypnagogic hallucinations occur can be discovered by reading these references:
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Probable hypnagogic hallucination.
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| Main Author: | Patrick Gross |
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| Editor: | Patrick Gross |
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| 0.1 | Patrick Gross | March 3, 2013 | Creation, [js1]. |
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | March 3, 2013 | First published. |
