Robert David reported to a UFO book author in 1992 about a case he stumbled upon by mere chance in 1970. That year David met the witness who whished to remain anonymous, and recorded the following.
On an unknown date of 1956, this witness lived in Mandelieu, and two evenings in a row, towards 08:00 p.m., returning home by bicycle on the road from Cannes to Mandelieu, he had seen in the sky a disc shining or a red and purple dazzling light which still hurt the eyes a long moment after being observed. The witness thought he saw a cupola on the top but the contours were not clear. There was a luminous trail behind more brilliant than the object.
Being pressed to talk, he reluctantly reported back an experience he had some other night afterwards, apparently also in 1956.
Between 01:00 a.m. and 02:00 a.m. he was sleeping at the first floor of his home in a bedroom where his wife and son also slept, when he was awaked and sat in his bed, rejecting the blankets, because he felt an weird presence.
Lit by the street lamps of the National Road 7 close to his dwellings, he managed to see three individuals leaning on him and staring at him with attention.
He tried to shout but the words remained blocked in his throat and all his members remained paralyzed.
One character who was at the end of the bed made a sign to another placed on the left of the witness and the latter clutched the witness' arm by twisting the articulations, which felt painful. The witness wanted to shout but no sound came out.
The three characters then left through the window bay; which windows and shutters had been left half-open by the witness.
The witness describes the visitors as wearing a transparent adjusted outfit which seemed very flexible and let see clothing underneath, of unnoticed color, that were one piece as he saw neither buttons nor zippers.
He describes the characters as being similar to men but of rather small sizes between 1.40 and 1.60 meters. They had a transparent "bell" on the head which was probably out of flexible material and rested on their shoulders.
The witness managed to scrutinize the face of the character who was on his left and lit by the street lamps of the RN 7 road. The skin was neither yellow nor green but dark and greish, "like a snail". The nose was thin and straight, the mouth was normal, without "big" lips, and did not move, the eyes were a little like those of Japanese but placed more on the side of the face, the hair were dark, black, short cut. The visitor had neither beard nor moustache. His hand was a naked human hand, without claw, with fingers like those of men but longer. He could not see their legs and feet as they were not lit by the street lamps.
The witness indicates that he was then in a state of half-lethargy but managed to see an intense light outside and a craft pass quickly, which was identical to the flying saucers he had previously seen.
Neither his wife nor his son woke up. He awoke a few hours later with a pain with the solar plexus, feeling "emptied" mentally, and went to see his doctor who could not determine the origin of his ill-feeling but gave him a 5 days period off-work.
The witness specified that he did not make any other sighting thereafter, that he tried to forget the episode, and that when he tried to tell of his experience to close relations they made fun of him. As his story quickly spread, the neighborhood called him "the crackpot who saw Martians" and scoffed at him when he walked in the streets. He became silent and frustrated and quickly suffered a nervous breakdown. His wife told that he had much changed since the incident, and the investigators checked among members of his family and some friends who were in the knowledge of the episode that his story never varied in time.
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[Ref. js1:] JEAN SIDER:
Jean Sider indicates that the close encounters of the first, second and third kinds can "camouflage an abduction." He quotes in support of this thesis two cases in France, including the following one.
He indicates that the case comes from his correspondent Robert David who reported to him the details of his investigation in 1992, and that the case is previously unpublished in his knowledge and would have remained so if Jean Sider had not found it while looking for information on some other testimony.
Jean Sider continues by indicating that he summarizes the report of Robert David to preserve only the most interesting elements.
He explains that Robert David was contacted in April 1970 by the manager of the personnel of the Carlton hotel in Cannes, Mr. Muller, who knew of his UFO interest. Mr. Muller told Robert David that one of his employee's father saw a flying saucer. Robert David, Mr. Muller and Mr. July, a dentist in Vallauris, then went to meet this witness at his home in La Napoule, April 12, 1970. This witness, who asked for anonymity, was then in his fifties and worked as mechanic with the local quarry.
On an unknown date of 1956, this witness lived in Mandelieu, and two evenings in a row, towards 08:00 p.m., returning home by bicycle on the road from Cannes to Mandelieu, he had seen in the sky a disc shining or a red and purple dazzling light which still hurt the eyes a long moment after being observed.
The witness thought of seeing a cupola on the top but the contours were not clear. There was a luminous trail behind more brilliant than the object.
Being pressed to talk, he reluctantly reported back an experience he had "after", "another evening".
He was sleeping at the first floor of his home in a bedroom where his wife and son also slept, when he was awaked and sat in his bed, rejecting the blankets, because he felt an weird presence.
Lit by the street lamps of the National Road 7 close to his dwellings, he managed to see three individuals leaning on him and staring at him with attention.
He tried to shout but the words remained blocked in his throat and all his members remained paralyzed.
One character who was at the end of the bed made a sign to another placed on the left of the witness and the latter clutched the witness' arm by twisting the articulations, which felt painful. The witness wanted to shout but no sound came out.
The three characters then left through the window bay which windows and shutters had been left half-open by the witness.
The witness indicates that he was then in a state of half-lethargy but managed to see an intense light outside and a craft pass quickly, which was identical to the flying saucers he had previously seen.
The witness indicates that it was between 01:00 a.m. and 02:00 a.m. and that neither his wife nor his son woke up.
He awoke a few hours later with a pain with the solar plexus, feeling "emptied" mentally, and went to see his doctor who could not determine the origin of his ill-feeling but gave him a 5 days period off-work.
The witness describes the visitors as wearing a transparent adjusted outfit which seemed very flexible and let see clothing underneath, of unnoticed color, that were one piece as he saw neither buttons nor zippers.
He describes the characters as being similar to men but of rather small sizes between 1.40 and 1.60 meters. They had a transparent "bell" on the head which was probably out of flexible material and rested on their shoulders.
The witness managed to scrutinize the face of the character who was on his left and lit by the street lamps of the RN 7 road. The skin was neither yellow nor green but dark and greish, "like a snail". The nose was thin and straight, the mouth was normal, without "big" lips, and did not move, the eyes were a little like those of Japanese but placed more on the side of the face, the hair were dark, black, short cut. The visitor had neither beard nor moustache. His hand was a naked human hand, without claw, with fingers like those of men but longer. He could not see their legs and feet as they were not lit by the street lamps.
The witness specified that he did not make any other sighting thereafter, that he tried to forget the episode, and that when he tried to tell of his experience to close relations they made fun of him. As his story quickly spread, the neighborhood called him "the crackpot who saw Martians" and scoffed at him when he walked in the streets. He became silent and frustrated and quickly suffered a nervous breakdown. His wife told that he had much changed since the incident, and the investigators checked among members of his family and some friends who were in the knowledge of the episode that his story never varied in time.
Jean Sider comments that the witness might have been "abducted" by these "extraterrestrials" (whom he argues are "false" being "created" by a superior intelligence that created humanity), and that he might have forgotten being abducted. Sider adds that perhaps the witness underwent "an unspecified but quite real action" upon "his body or his mind, but about which we will alas never know anything", and invites by a footnote to read the book "Les Médiateurs de l'Invisible" by John Klimo, pages 324-325, Robert Laffont, 1991.
[Ref. ad1:] ANNE DUFLOT:
Cases of abductions recorded in France:
[24] B.V.: Bedroom visitor. Entitues visiting the contactees by night in their bedroom. |
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[Ref. ar1:] ALBERT ROSALES:
Albert Rosales indicates in his catalogue that in La Napoule, Alpes Maritimes, France, in 1956 at night, a local truck driver is in his bedroom when suddenly several beings float into the room. The beings looked "Japanese" but with even more elongated eyes. One being held him in an arm lock preventing him from moving, while some unknown force exerted some control on the witness. There was no verbal or any other type of exchange between the beings and the witness. Soon the beings jumped out the window and floated out into the night. The witness then heard a violent explosion outside and a blowing noise like a powerful wind.
Albert Rosales indicates that the source is LDLN # 317, and Denys Breysse.
Nothing in the incident report comes to justify the insistence of Jean Sider to suppose an "abduction", and it is quite inappropriate to play with imagination to add to the reported experiences non-existent features to justify one's thesis. If the experience was real, the witness had a visit by three beings, but was not abducted, and the case thus can absolutely not constitute an "example" of alien abduction in France - no more can it justify the thesis by Jean Sider in his book, i.e. that Darwinian evolution is a false theory and that "higher intelligences" created humanity.
The case as it stands cruelly lacks essential information on the two flying saucers sightings; it is not even possible to exclude that they were meteors, or Venus pillars, that their interpretation in terms of flying saucers put in the witness' mind the idea of extraterrestrial visitors and caused a few nights later a quite ordinary and impressive experience of hypnagogic hallucination with sleep paralysis triggered by a sound stimulus evoked in one of the sources.
It does not seem that the tracks of the possible ordinary explanations were even considered, and it is extremely regrettable that wild and unsupported speculation on some "possible" abductions overrides the investigation itself; which should have tried to determine if the objects seen were flying saucers or not, and if the bedroom visitors experience was or was not an hypnagogic hallucination with sleep paralysis.
It so happens that I realized in these last years that the phenomenon of hypnagogic hallucination is barely known of, and sometimes ignored or even denied by several French ufologists. I have in addition a considerable asset to realize how such experiences, although not "real", are much more impressive than a "simple dream": it happened to me. It so happens that in this report, there are several indicators pointing towards this explanation: the reference to the state of semi-lethargy in which the witness was during the experience, the incapacity to speak, move, shout, the absence of corroborating observation by third parties, the absence of physical trace, the triggering stimuli such as noises or light outside. On the other end, nothing solid comes to demonstrate firmly that such an explanation is the sure explanation, but as obviously it was not even considered, the case becomes unfortunately unfit as example supporting some particular thesis about UFOs or their occupants.
I provide a few references among dozens about the topic of hypnagogic hallucination and sleep paralysis:
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| Id: | Topic: | Severity: | Date noted: | Raised by: | Noted by: | Description: | Proposal: | Status: |
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| 1 | Data | Severe | October 10, 2007 | Patrick Gross | Patrick Gross | Missing the original full investigation report. | Help needed. | Opened. |
| 2 | Data | Severe | October 10, 2007 | Patrick Gross | Patrick Gross | Entities episode started and ended with witness sleeping. | - | - |
Hypnagogic hallucination.
* = Source I checked.
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| Main Author: | Patrick Gross |
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| Contributors: | None |
| Reviewers: | None |
| Editor: | Patrick Gross |
| Version: | Created/Changed By: | Date: | Change Description: |
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| 0.1 | Patrick Gross | October 10, 2007 | Creation, [js1], [ad1], [ar1]. |
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | October 10, 2007 | First published. |
