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URECAT - UFO Related Entities Catalog

URECAT is a formal catalog of UFO related entities sightings reports with the goal of providing quality information for accurate studies of the topic. Additional information, corrections and reviews are welcome at patrick.gross@inbox.com, please state if you wish to be credited for your contribution or not. The main page of the URECAT catalog is here.

AUGUST 1914, NOIRETABLE, LOIRE, FRANCE, MR. PERRET:

Brief summary of the event and follow-up:

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.

Basic information table:

Case number: URECAT-001411
Date of event: August 1914
Earliest report of event: October 1984
Delay of report: 8 decades.
Witness reported via: Told ufologists.
First alleged record by: Investigating ufologists.
First certain record by: Ufology book Jean Sider.
First alleged record type: Ufologists investigation report.
First certain record type: Ufology book Jean Sider.
This file created on: March 3, 2013
This file last updated on: March 3, 2013
Country of event: France
State/Department: Loire
Type of location: In bed in bedroom.
Lighting conditions: At night, maybe someon put light on.
UFO observed: No
UFO arrival observed: N/A
UFO departure observed: N/A
UFO/Entity Relation: None
Witnesses numbers: 1
Witnesses ages: Not reported. Child.
Witnesses types: Not reported. Boy.
Photograph(s): No.
Witnesses drawing: No.
Witnesses-approved drawing: No.
Number of entities: 1
Type of entities: Human
Entities height: Not reported.
Entities outfit type: Dress going down to the feet.
Entities outfit color: Snow white.
Entities skin color: Snow white.
Entities body: Not reported. Like 10-12 year old child.
Entities head: Not reported. Face white like snow.
Entities eyes: Not reported.
Entities mouth: Not reported.
Entities nose: Not reported.
Entities feet: Not visible, under dress.
Entities arms: Not reported.
Entities fingers: Not reported.
Entities fingers number: Not reported.
Entities hair: Not remembered.
Entities voice: None heard.
Entities actions: Taps witness, smiles at witness, went out through doors.
Entities/witness interactions: None.
Witness(es) reactions: Observed, went.
Witness(es) feelings: Frightened.
Witness(es) interpretation: Not reported.
Explanation category: Probable hypnagogic hallucination.
Explanation certainty: High.

Narratives:

[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."

Points to consider:

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:

List of issues:

Id: Topic: Severity: Date noted: Raised by: Noted by: Description: Proposal: Status:
None.

Evaluation:

Probable hypnagogic hallucination.

Sources references:

* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.

Document history:

Authoring

Main Author: Patrick Gross
Contributors: None
Reviewers: None
Editor: Patrick Gross

Changes history

Version: Created/Changed By: Date: Change Description:
0.1 Patrick Gross March 3, 2013 Creation, [js1].
1.0 Patrick Gross March 3, 2013 First published.

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