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Although I have never seen any myself, UFOs often came close on several occasions. But especially, the hope of an extraterrestrial contact played an important role in my whole life, either that hope is justified or not, and whether it is related to UFOs or not. Hence the interest of a thread dedicated to this intriguing mystery.
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I take this opportunity to mention some similar mysteries, which have since been explained and proven to be unrelated to UFOs. But at the time, they were just as intriguing, contributing to a strong feeling of strangeness and mystery, even of dread.
Unfortunately, UFOs and ETs often have been huge pretexts for lies and scams. I did my part to combat them. Especially, by going to see people who pretend to have been «contactees». I also clarified the so-called «alien abduction», which is actually just sleep paralysis, cleverly exploited by unscrupulous authors. I even found how they managed to elicit the same visions for all, giving an apparent «objectivity» to their deliriums.
Date of first publication: January 2026
Date de last addition: none
These texts are a work in progress, a project spanning several years, so that they may contain missing parts and links to targets not yet created. Thanks to be patient. 🙂
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(Permalink) Written in October 2016.
I did not searched for UFOs, and when I was a young child, nobody thought about that kind of thing. It was... from another planet, you might say.
The first time I heard about misteries during that period, was from my mother, who told me the story of the housekeeper in our building, named Coépel (I never knew the exact spelling. We find Coepel on the Internet), who said she saw «green rays» every night, coming from a nearby factory. Of course, the adults were saying that she was crazy, and I believed them at the time. Indeed, the great noise of the American waves had not yet reached our little corner of France, and anything of this nature was completely unknown there. Even the words «UFO» and «flying saucer» were unknown. In more, I had read «The War of the Worlds», and this woman's «green rays» were too similar to those in the novel to be credible. Of course, this woman may have seen only an industrial machine or a neon sign. But I remember my childish feeling of strangeness, a bit scary. Today, I still wonder if it might have been a real UFO sighting, but I have never found any investigation report for that location (Saint Dizier) and that time period (between 1953 and 1964). This is too bad, because it would have been interesting to find a «naive» case by someone who had never read or heard anything about this subject.
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(Permalink) Ecrit en Décembre 2016
I don't know exactly when this second memory dates from, but it happened in Erloy, where we continued to spend some vacations until 1967. But it was very probably several years before that. We were given Donald and Mickey stories to read. The specific memory I have is of a page in Donald entirely dedicated to «the crazy people who see flying saucers in the sky», with drawings of the different types of UFOs, cigars, saucers, etc. The sketches even showed cigars to smoke and dish saucers! This page was clearly intended to be «educational», and in conclusion, we saw Donald boarding a rocket, as the «serious» way to go into space.
It was then through this perverse propaganda that I learned the existence of UFOs and other «flying saucers».
Of course, at the time, I had accepted literally what this literature was saying: «crazy people» who were seeing «flying saucers». We all had an absolute trust into Disney, don't we?
But later, I understood the real sense of this page, upon reading the shameful report of the CIA's Robertson Panel: Disney is specifically named as a possible vector for their disinformation activities about UFOs! So the later actually did it, then. This is what I saw, and the timing fits. So much for the wonder of Disney princesses, just to spread anti-life propaganda. This is how those thick-headed idiots at the CIA ruined my childhood with their dirty Soviet-style propaganda. May they find snail slime in their beds, mold on their toast, and a very tiny willy. Hey, they must be dead by now, and their fate must be much less funny than that.
What I still don't understand today is why the CIA, which is supposed to protect the US from spies and other dangers, got so excited about UFOs, a scientific issue which is really not their business. Do they even remember?
The reason given by the Robertson Panel for denigrating UFOs was that the groups studying them could be used to support Soviet propaganda. (A paranoia which still left them unable to defend us when Facebook was actually used in this way). But precisely, scientifically studying UFOs would have been the best way for serious people to appropriate the issue and protect us against any manipulation, soviet or otherwise. Instead, since the 1980s, we have had groups prone to bizarre theories, which are left unchallenged, and this is at the root of this conspirationism plaguing political life since the 2010s, which has destroyed the trust in society for so many people.
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(Permalink) Written in December 2016
In the Sahara, the night sky is fantastic, literally sparkling with stars. In more, Béchar had little light pollution at the time. Walking at night, we could see incredible details, and I also remember spectacular shooting stars.
I remember something curious: a large shooting star making a clearly audible «woosh» sound. Enough people reported this impossible effect for scientists to take the matter seriously. But they have no explanation. Their only hypothesis is a radio wave emission. I have another: a neural effect in response to a sudden light. This could be proven with simple experiments. In the meantime, shooting stars remain ghostly and mysterious emissaries from the depths of space, dashing silently across our sky.
In more, as my scientific knowledge was growing (again thanks to Tout L'univers), I realized that many of these stars probably harbored life, even civilizations. So, in the open-air cinema in the Lopez military quarter (31°36'48.39"N 2°13'0.29"W, now replaced by a residential building), while waiting or during intermissions, I would look at the stars, hoping to meet these famous extraterrestrials. And, in my moments of depression, I sometimes wished that they would free me from this absurd and masochistic world. Yet I was much happier in Béchar than in the following years in Mont de Marsan.
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(Permalink) Written in February 2025
I am adding this little sub-chapter here, although it actually has nothing to do with UFOs. But at the time, some phenomena were poorly understood, and therefore mysterious, see frightening. Especially since the idiotic censorship of UFOs already favored unfounded rumors, created by merchants of fear or peddled by the media.
It was an early morning in Mont de Marsan, it was still dark, and I was arriving to the high school by foot. It must then have been between 1967 and 1969. I do not know the month, but November is plausible, given that the day had not yet broken at 8:10 (which at the time was still UT+1)
A brief flash of light suddenly illuminated the clouds, from above.
Let us clarify that these were not storm clouds, but dappled cirro-cumulus clouds. And the flash was brief, like a camera flash, not scintillating like thunderstorm lightning.
I was deeply intrigued, unable to guess what phenomenon could have caused this. Just that it was very big, and much higher than any of our familiar air phenomena.
It resulted of this a sense of mystery and dread: «something» was happening up there.
Furthermore, the scientific literature was speaking of the Tunguska event, which was unexplained at the time. It was thought that a meteorite would have left a crater, but nothing of the sort had ever been found there. «Theories» were therefore rife, in the blurred zone between science and mystery literature. The Tunguska object was said to have been a small piece of antimatter, or a crashed spacecraft. (We did not knew it yet at the time, but the Russians were no slouch when it came to extravagant hypotheses. We saw this, for example, in the texts of Vadim Chernobrov, which blithely blended media science and Yakut mythology, interpreting the Tunguska as the action of a local god.) Fortunately, there was no conspiracy theory yet at the time; this began to manifest only around 1981, before infecting the entire society around 2010.
The last major speculation about the Tunguska was in the book The Tunguska Mystery, written by one of my former internet friends, the Russian-Ukrainian Vladimir Rubtsov. Vladimir was thinking that the Tunguska object must have had its own explosive power. He warned that others might come along. I informed Vladimir of NASA's latest results on this subject, but it was too late: his book was already published, and he... died shortly after.
The elusive cause of these strange and fantastic explosions is that, broadly speaking, many meteorites are powdery, at best formed of gravel, as was observed on site with the asteroid Bennu. A meteorite has a considerable kinetic energy, which is transformed into heat upon atmospheric reentry. Importantly, this energy is considerably higher than that of the reentry of an artificial satellite: the meteorite travels between 20 and 70 km/s, compared to only 8 km/s for a satellite.
Moreover, in the case of a powdery meteorite, the aerodynamic forces cause a rapid dislocation into tiny elements. And a small element burns up over a short distance, whereas a massive rock can survive the entire journey to the ground, losing only its surface.
The result is that a powdery meteorite will transform all its energy into heat in a very short time, over a very short distance. This is clearly visible in the videos of the Chelyabinsk meteorite in 2013, which main flash is only about a second. The main noise is also very brief, even though it continues for nearly a minute with shocks arriving from more distant parts of the trajectory.
This is perfectly sufficient to explain the Tunguska event, and it was illustrated in Chelyabinsk, without assuming any energy sources other than kinetic, contrary to what Vladimir Rubtsov thought.
And what about my observation? Given the date, hour, and brevity of the flash, I think it was a Leonid, from a swarm of meteorites known to be very fast (70 km/s!!!) and already responsible for the most fantastic meteor showers ever observed. Well, this is less mysterious than unknown objects crisscrossing the sky, but it is still extraordinary, one of those fantastic moments when familiar appearances fade away, and reveal the operation of the celestial mechanics!
I was to see the Leonids again later, in Lavaur around 2003 (date lost). I got up at 4:00 am to try to intercept a «strand» of the trail of the comet Tempel-Tuttle responsible for the Leonids (amateurs had carefully studied the trajectories and deduced the presence of this denser «strand» that Earth would be crossing at that moment. Internet already allowed to get information practically live). And I was not disappointed, with four or five extremely bright meteorites, one of which lit up the landscape enough to reveal its colors!
Next interesting Leonids: 2036.
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(Permalink) Written in October 2016.
At that time, I had read a lot of science, especially Science et Vie, which had convinced me of the existence of extraterrestrials, and especially extraterrestrials who had had billions of years to evolve far beyond our current mankind. In any case, it was not difficult to imagine anything better than our warmongering, stupid and masochistic mankind. Thus, when we arrived at our property in Le Boniort in 1969, extraterrestrials were a common topic of conversation with my brothers, and a frequent game storyline. We even drew pictures of them together, I remember a series of the races from across the solar system, who were all our friends, of course. We were also nourished by comics like Flash Gordon (Guy l'Eclair in French), which were the best science fiction of the time. The world of Flash Gordon is curious, with its bizarre costumes outlining sensual bodies, even if the comics had no recognized intent of being erotic.
But I had no idea how to put this into practice: I knew the immeasurable distances of space, and the practical impossibility of traveling from one star to another with the means at our disposal. Not even Venus or Mars, which were still unknown at the time. While the desire was great to meet advanced and benevolent extraterrestrials, or at least psychologically normal, it remained a pure dream.
A dream in which the UFOs would suddenly appear, upending all expectations about extraterrestrials.
Indeed, several curious things happened while we were at our property in Le Boniort, in Mont de Marsan, between 1969 and 1972. I do not necessarily remember the order, although some stem from others, so I am more or less guessing the chronology.
On several occasions, we saw lights in the woods. I only saw them once, but my brother Serge saw them several times. At the time, we thought they were tractor headlights, but there was no farm in that direction.
Another time, at night, my mother heard a brief but powerful whistling sound, seemingly coming from only some meters from the house. It was not someone whistling, it sounded more like a turbine. Oddly enough, our dog, Caïd, did not barked.
Another time, in the middle of the night, I saw a bluish glow through the window as the night-rate electrical relay clicked, indicating a brief power outage. Then, two or three seconds later, came the characteristic buzzing sound of an electric arc. Well, there can be all sorts of natural reasons for a power line to arc. But in the middle of the night, with no wind, I found it odd, and today I still do not know what could have happened.
Was it because of this atmosphere of strangeness? I felt an impulse to draw circles of crushed grass in the meadow at the bottom of the property. This is how I made «crop circles», long before anyone had ever heard of that. In my mind, it was a game, the staging of a mysterious phenomenon. However, it was not a hoax intended to deceive people: when my father became concerned about these circles, I told him it was me. I would not have had the heart to actually deceive anyone on such a subject.
But this episode was not without consequences: some days after, my father brought back our first book on UFOs from the army’s library (Air Base 118). It was «Les apparitions de martiens» (The Apparitions of Martians) by Michel Carrouges (1963). Of course, the title made us laugh at first: just some years earlier, the Mariner 4 probe had definitively put an end to any hope of intelligent life on Mars, with revealing a surface riddled with craters, therefore sterile and airless. A big disappointment, of course, but not really a surprise.
However, and contrary to this bizarre title, the book accurately detailed UFO cases in a credible manner, with scientific investigations. I finally understood that something truly strange was going on. More precisely, these UFOs seemed to be clearly of extraterrestrial origin (even if obviously not Martians, but this was still a common term at the time). So I asked my father if there were other books of this kind, and he brought us five or six on the same subject, with the great classics such as Jacques Vallée, Henri Durant, Alen Hynek, Edward J. Ruppelt, and others (I do not remember the exact list). This support by scientists and investigations finally convinced me of the existence of a real phenomenon. However, these UFOs remained for me a bookish subject: impossible to talk about them to anyone in such a remote and backward place as Mont de Marsan. Even UFOs did not come there!
What is curious, however, is that my father, as unconcerned with science as he was, had made the connection between my «mysterious traces» and UFOs. Most likely, his colleagues were talking about it at the base. In any case, their library was well-informed. Apparently, in Mont de Marsan, the Air Force was an oasis of culture and normality!
I was quickly quite sure that UFOs were ships piloted by extraterrestrials. Although I noticed the strangeness of many cases: the «ships» were never twice the same! The behavior of the «extraterrestrials» during RR3 and RR4 also seemed very strange. But, at the time, this still did not bothered anyone. It was thought that all the astonishing characteristics of the phenomenon could be explained by the technology of their ships, which was necessarily unknown and incomprehensible. Besides, fascist conspiracy theories did not existed yet. In any case, I already knew that extraterrestrial civilizations could exist, and especially that they could very easily be much more evolved than our humanity, having existed for billions of years. Therefore, extraterrestrials must have been benevolent, or at least respectful.
But the strangest thing happened one evening, when my brother Serge saw a light again, this time in a tree. I must have been in Pau at the time (between 1972 and 1973), because I did not witnessed this event. This tree was a large Landes pine, with a straight, branchless trunk nearly ten meters high, and you really have to be strong to climb this, clutching it between your legs. He did so, and brought down a device which looked like a lamp, but of an unknown model. My mother, who saw it, described it to me: black, shaped like a matchbox, a little taller or more elongated, with a sort of small lamp on top. It came apart with screws, and when my brother opened it, the light went out. Inside was a coil, with wires running under «archways». My mother was not a technician to recognize these things, and she did not thought at looking for any markings, such as battery type or anything else.
At the time, we thought that this object had been left by soldiers during a training (there was an army camp nearby, and sometimes, while on a ruck march, some of them would stray as far as our place). But back then, there were no LEDs, lithium batteries, or anything else, or only expensive zinc-silver or nickel-cadmium batteries used only in aviation, space, or weather balloons. My father brought back such accumulators from the base, and I have never seen anything like them anywhere else. So, whatever it was, this object was not trivial. And years later, I really wonder what it was, and where it came from. Unfortunately, my brother did not take care of this object, which disappeared and I never saw it with my own eyes.
Let us point out that I also spoke about it with Serge, which gives me «two witnesses». He remains convinced that this object was military, placed in the tree as a beacon for training. But in our domain, this is curious.
Finally, 1969 was the year I did my first consciousness taking about the meaning of life. Did it had anything to do with all these strange things? Or was it simply living in a favorable environment? It is likely, but honestly, I do not know.
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(Permalink) Written in November 2016.
Toulouse allowed me to act concretely, about my interest in UFOs: there was an investigators' association, and of course, the GEPAN!
More precisely, this association was the UFO commission of the Société d'Astronomie Populaire de Toulouse (SAPT), which at the time was located in the Tournoer Tower, 9 rue Ozenne, 43°35'50"N 1°26'47.20"E. There was a metal shelter at the top of the tower for the telescope, which has since been removed. Today, the SAPT has moved to a very Tintin-esque location: the former Toulouse Observatory in Jolimont, a prestigious site in the 19th century, but that professionals had to abandon due to light pollution. The instruments are still there, well-maintained, as if we were still in 1880. Everything still works, and the visit is fascinating (on Sundays). The SAPT building is at 43°36'43.31"N, 1°27'45.25"E, and the website is http://saptoulouse.net. The UFO commission was active under the direction of Patrick Martinez, a graduate of the École Polytechnique. It was still operating until recently, but today (2016) I no longer see any mention of it on the website.
The years 1976 to 1980 were extremely positive for ufologists: numerous and influential associations conducted high-quality scientific investigations, compiled into vast databases (on paper at the time. I do not know if they have been computerized since). But above all, we saw UFOs as something positive (not harmful, in any case) and relatively simple: extraterrestrials visiting us, which explained all the oddities with the unknown technology of their spacecraft. There were even RR3 and RR4 (most of the encounters verified by investigations took place during this period) showing what appeared to be a gradual contact, quite similar to the protocols NASA later proposed for our own explorations. The impression we had was that the solution to the enigma was within reach, depending only on a particularly well-proven «rock-solid case», or even an initiative by the extraterrestrials themselves. It was in this frame of thinking that the films «Close Encounters of the Third Kind» and «E.T». were made, intended as educational films compiling the knowledge and hopes of specialists at the time.
What people born after since lack, to understand this era, is that ufology was serious: it was a science, admittedly an amateur science, but one which applied scientific methods and discussed testimonies verified by investigations. Above all, ufology focused on positive things. The fantastic media manipulation and boosting disinformation campaign which since completely destroyed its image had not yet taken hold. For starters, the idea that extraterrestrials were evil only emerged later (the first time I heard it mentioned was in 1981, and it was still very marginal). The racist denigration of extraterrestrials began in 1979 with the horror film «Alien», a clear attempt to negate the positive impact of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1976). This was not an isolated case, there had been similar films somewhat earlier, but which remained unknown. As proof, the people who made these films were well-versed in the UFO phenomenon, citing elements from real cases. The first I saw was a cheap staging of the Antonio Villas Boas case, turned into a bad horror movie. Some months later, the star in «Alien» is Zeta Reticulis, mentioned in the Betty and Barney Hill case. A small act of revenge forty years later: the reality of Saturn, seen backlit by Cassini, proved to be a thousand times more beautiful than the dark, fictional planet of «Alien». Even Titan and Pluto revealed somptuous landscapes, the beauty of which no one had anticipated at the time.
But above all, the media rarely spoke about ufology, and only to label ufologists and witnesses as crazy. This attitude, called censorship, or reductive disinformation (or simply idiocy), is certainly dishonest and harmful, but it did not really prevented informed people from working on UFOs, just as they did on everything else, once they understood that the media were lying. While today (2016), the media speak on behalf of ufologists to say just about anything, thus destroying in depth the UFO research. Thus, in 2016, the media have not lost their ability to «create reality» (Newspeak for «keeping people in illusions»), just like the Soviets were doing.
But enough of these nonsense, you will be more interested to know what we did at the SAPT UFO commission. First of all, we conducted field investigations. I did not personally participated in this activity, as it required having a car. But there was basic training in perceiving unusual phenomena, very useful for our work. Indeed, the majority of reports boil down to simple misinterpretations of unusual phenomena, or of familiar objects seen from an unexpected angle. For example, I remember someone who experienced a terrifying night, pursued by a luminous «craft», and fleeing at breakneck speed along the treacherous backroads of the Lauragais. But when asked «where was the moon?», this person suddenly slapped his forehead: what he had mistaken for a «craft» was none other than the full moon, with clouds rapidly passing by, giving the impression that it was moving. And of course, it was «following» this person! Such a report is, of course, of no interest to ufology, and it was not even archived. But today (2016), it would delight far-right media outlets like Yahoo, which would publish it prominently, linking it to their beloved conspirationism, between a photo of their dear Le Pen and the racist comments on their «forum».
But we also dealt with genuinely «serious» cases, meaning credible ones which withstood testing and verification. Unfortunately, at the time, I had very little information on the subject, and it was handled with a degree of discretion due to the need to protect the privacy of the witnesses. These investigation reports should normally still be in the SAPT archives.
Under Patrick Martinez's direction, we undertook another task: creating a database of the cases presented in the literature. At the time, there were about fifteen «foundational» books on ufology, plus two or three journals, which debated the various hypotheses (virtually all focused on extraterrestrials, some with a more scientific approach, others more spiritual). All were presenting «cases», either classic or new. Patrick thought it would be useful to be able to quickly compare the cases in order to make correlations and perform statistical studies. The chosen format was small index cards, each summarizing a case and including the standard credibility and strangeness ratings. The former indicates the case's reliability, based on the sources and the thoroughness of the investigation. The latter indicates its extraordinary nature, and therefore its potential to represent a truly unknown phenomenon. I do not know what became of this file, whether it is still with the SAPT or if Patrick kept it (I have not heard from him, and I cannot find him online anymore. Update 2025: an email to the SAPT about this went unanswered). In any case, using it without computers would have been a huge undertaking, and digitizing it would have been even more so. If ever anybody is still around to conduct such studies, after the systematic demolition of amateur ufology by the media and their beloved conspirationists.
We also reviewed the books published at the time. This was necessary, because fiction archaeology and pseudoscience were already trying to control the field. At the time, they were confined to fringe circles, but the publication of serious books in the same series as the nonsense was already a problem: many people refused to read books on UFOs, just from seeing who was publishing them.
I remember commenting on a book claiming to show photos of extraterrestrial activity on the Moon. I had to conclude that, despite all my goodwill and open-mindedness, I had not been able to discern anything artificial in these photos, only stones and rocks. A measured and polite conclusion, but without concessions. Unexplained things have indeed been found on the Moon since then, such as the Ina Caldera, TLEs and the auroras observed by some Apollo crews. But nothing tells that these things would be artificial.
I also had to comment on a new development: Bertrand Méheust's famous book, «science fiction et soucoupes volantes», in which he presented his «psychic» thesis: the mode of appearance, scenario, and content of UFO sightings reflect certain aspects of the human mind. This thesis, at the time, undoubtedly irritated proponents of the «bolts and nuts» extraterrestrial hypothesis (meaning that the saucers must necessarily be physical machines, simply using some unknown technology). Here too, I did not went further than describing the thesis, which, however bizarre it seemed to us at the time, accounted far better than machines for all the strangeness of the testimonies. This book did indeed open the door to John E. Mack's hypotheses, which I develop in my book «General Epistemology», namely that the appearing of a «UFO» would constitute a «domain» (in the physicists' sense) where the laws of physics are modified in such a way as to allow consciousness to interfere with the material world. Of course, at the time, nobody envisioned such things (even the «domains» were still unknown), but Méheust's book was not entirely unexpected: several authors had already noted (Henri Durant, I believe) that the content of the experiences, particularly RR3 and RR4, reflected the witness's psyche to some extent, for instance some people seeing angelic and benevolent figures, and others scary dwarves.
On the other hand, we unanimously condemned Pierre Monnerie's book, «The New Ufology», which was nothing more than a blatant attempt at internal sabotage. For example, stating that an unidentified flying object is «not conceptually a UFO» was simply a crude mind control trick, an attempt to blur the lines between «misunderstood» and «unidentified». We now know that Monnerie was not a ufologist, but that he had frequented these circles in order to present himself as one. Moreover, he was published by a different publisher than other books on UFOs, hostile to this kind of thing. Even back then, Monnerie had sown confusion among ufologists (most of whom were amateur scientists largely unaware of the mind controls used in politics). But above all, he paved the way for the media, who then simply had to present ufology as a conspiracy theory, and conspiracy theorists as ufologists. All of this, of course, without any investigation or verification. This is precisely what gives to lies their power: not depending on evidence to «exist». Whereas truth depends on evidence, investigations, witnesses—all things which can be destroyed.
I should also point out that Patrick was not just an ufologist. At the time, he worked as an engineer at the CEAT (a technical testing center located east of Toulouse), and he also was a well-known figure in amateur astronomy in France, participating in experiments and writing books, notably a guide to amateur astronomy. I saw him again later, back when >I was working at the CNES, around 1990, and he had opened a shop selling telescopes and astronomical instruments on Boulevard Carnot. Unfortunately, it was not a success: amateur astronomy is not widespread enough to justify a shop in such an expensive location.
While I have never seen a UFO, I did once get the «great thrill» when I was living on Rue des Couteliers in Toulouse. It was a furnished apartment with several beds. I had chosen one, but for some reason, one evening I was in another. Turning around, I suddenly saw a black cylindrical object floating about a meter above me, strikingly similar to the images of «cigar» UFOs popularized by a photograph from Georges Adamsky. It was astounding, a little frightening, and above all, very interesting! However, the illusion quickly faded: what I saw was a sort of crescent-shaped window in the wall above me, leading into another dark room. But it looked fantastic! So, even though I never «saw a UFO», I still experienced the thrill of those who do, even if only for two seconds!
◀️ See this section in the page on my first stay in Toulouse
(Permalink) Added in July 2026.
The GEPAN (Today GEIPAN) is a french government-led science group for studying UFOs, which has its premises in the CNES in Toulouse.
Around 1976, I once visited the GEPAN at the CNES, headed at the time by Claude Poher, whom I met in person. I had a legitimate reason for the visit, having seen a twinkling light moving across the night sky. Back then, satellites were still a rarity (unlike today, where rich morons are in a competition to be the one who will trigger the Kessler syndrome). But Poher already knew what that light was: a tumbling satellite, its facets reflecting the sun like a disco ball. Consequently, no «UFO report» was filed regarding my sighting. Nevertheless, he was kind enough to chat informally for a good half-hour, particularly about my offer to assist with investigations. Of course, nothing came of it, as he was looking for graduates.
Despite these disappointments, I left the meeting feeling quite pleased, especially from knowing that scientists were actually working on these subjects. But a major downside has since emerged: the GEPAN and its successors do not publish results. A huge question mark has persisted throughout the organization's turbulent history: what do they actually do, aside from explaining away cases of mistaken identification? And why does the GEPAN has a secret oversight committee? It is a unique case in the scientific world, which more evokes a brawling of secret agents than of genuine, useful work. Furthermore, how does the «unidentified» UFO cases reported by the GEPAN and its successors are covariant with the misidentifications? (archive). It is extremely curious and it likely points at something unsavory. As of 2026, the «breakdown by phenomenon» shows only misidentifications! Clearly, somebody is mocking at us.
Since 2020 and the publication of the US Navy’s observations, the GEIPAN keeps a low profile.
(Permalink) Written in December 2020, checked in July 2026.
This period saw me living in a New Age community known as Le Faitg. That was the spirit of the times, of course, but it also was the heyday of people claiming to be in contactwith extraterrestrials. The owner of Le Faitg herself, Viviane Paquereau, pretended to be a trance medium, receiving «messengers» from another planet.
It is of course disappointing that all this turned out to be nothing but lies or delusions, but this is their problem, not mine. My point is that, if I had not «scientifically tested» the matter, I would still regret today not having done so. Or I might have clung to the notion that real extraterrestrials would contact «evolved individuals», while wondering why not me. It would certainly have been surprising for extraterrestrials to behave like primary-school bullies, yet this is precisely the feeling we got from certain self-proclaimed contactees, and that we still get today from their conspirationnist successors.
I positively say that I «scientifically tested». To start with, only my position of member of The Faitg allowed me to enter this suspicious and secretive milieu. No journalist or official enquirer could ever pretend to see this milieu from inside, so that my testimony is irreplaceable.
Second, testing a hypothesis like telepathic contact required to be personally immersed in such a spiritual context, and being among the people deemed sufficiently evolved to receive such contact. Without that, pseudoscientific dismissals, in the style of James Randi or Wikipedia, are utter nonsense: such crass materialists would be the very last to receive a telepathic message, even if the whole world started to vibrate to a vision of a wonderful society. And this is precisely what is happening today, as we shall see shortly: the spiritual contact, explanations, manifesting through all those innovative intuitions emerging at the very heart of society, unnoticed by any «elite».
«Altor: What a mess! That experiment turned out to be a disastrous failure!
-Apildom: Not at all! Actually, the experiment is a bit more complex than I initially planned, but it is fascinating, hee hee hee! Great things will come from it…»
As for ufology itself, the only notable event during those nine years at the Faitg was a visit, around 1981 or 1982, to a reader of the magazine «Lumières dans la Nuit» whom I had met through Mensa. That publication was unpopular among scientific ufologists, for propagating some questionable theories, but also for favoring a spiritual approach over a scientific one. Indeed, some people had remarked the spiritual dimension to UFOs as early as the 1970s, and they were exploring this direction. However, this visit was deeply disappointing: this reader was fixated on the idea that extraterrestrials would be malevolent, or even demonic. Yet, scientific studies of close encounters (specifically CE3) had shown nothing of the sort; on the contrary, these encounters revealed angelic looking «characters», although with some more unsettling ones admittedly. Nothing truly harmful ever occurred anyway, aside from the witnesses being terrified, or the discomfort associated with some of the experiences they reported inside the UFOs.
At the time, I thought that this person was an isolated case, but unfortunately, such conspirationnism spread rapidly throughout UFO circles, eventually stifling the scientific study by amateur ufologists or private citizens. This is the origin of the «theories» like the Reptilians controlling the government. Indeed, in an untended field, weeds always grow faster than the useful crops! Today (2021), we are well aware of the cost of such nonsense and the disastrous influence conspirationnism has had on politics.
Those nine years at The Faitg yielded no UFO sightings strictly speaking, save an evening showing strange lights.
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Sit down with plenty of pop corn!
This 1985 summer saw me quite mobile, which allowed me to meet several people who claimed to have been contacted by extraterrestrials. The idea that such a thing was possible originated with Georges Adamsky, well-known to scientific ufologists as the prototype of the contactees, in the 1950s. Adamsky claimed to have boarded «spaceships» several times, where he supposedly received messages of wisdom, quite seductive and advanced for the time. This social advance made him very credible as a contactee (this was before the Hippies). However, he never provided any physical proof of his contacts. At the time, it was not possible to prove that he was lying, but today no one takes him seriously anymore, because he claimed to have met Venusians and Saturnians, or because he had already tried to spread the same messages in the 1930s, boasting a Tibetan source. He had not foreseen that one day we would be able to verify his claims on Venus... and in Tibet!
The idea of extraterrestrial contact, however, long divided scientific ufologists, because there were also proven close encounters (CE3s) where witnesses claimed to have been tasked with spreading a message. At the time, the dominant paradigm was that UFOs were spacecraft piloted by extraterrestrials, coming to help Earth at a crucial stage of its development. The idea of contact therefore made sense, including telepathic messages, and I would not be surprised if we eventually found genuine contactees, whether telepathic or physical. But today, after all the conspirationism, if such contacts exist, we understand that their interest is to either provide serious evidence acceptable to everybody, or to remain very discreet.
In any case, Georges Adamsky had many imitators, mainly in the United States. And, like the original, they delivered seemingly spiritual «messages» (today some of them are still active in conspirationism). In France, the most well-known was Frank Fontaine in 1979. But it quickly became clear that the Frank Fontaine affair was a massive hoax. Thus, in 1985 in France, when people talked about contactees, almost everybody thought of Frank Fontaine, and big caliber hoax (In french: «fumisterie» means both hoax and stove pipe). Only the few who had studied scientific ufology, like myself, could still take the idea of extraterrestrial contact seriously, knowing of the existence of verified RR3 and RR4 events, some of which including spiritual messages. Add to that things like Hessdalen, with almost daily sightings at the time, and all of this gave the impression of an increasingly active extraterrestrial presence, on the verge of revealing itself.
The Franck Fontaine case unfortunably inaugurated a media pattern which remains the norm today in 2020: indiscriminately lumping all «ufologists», whether institutional or private, together with conspirationists or cults. And above all, giving extensive publicity to bogus cases like Franck Fontaine's, while remaining silent on genuine cases with real investigations, such as the RR3 and RR4 cases mentioned above. This implies that they knew from the beginning that Franck Fontaine's «disappearance» was a hoax. It is indeed quite curious that they would have heard about two unknown young men ranting in their corner: the entire affair was necessarily fabricated, with the prior complicity of the media. Like the «Arab conspiracy» surrounding the AZF disaster, or the Mayan prophecy and extraterrestrial base delusions in Bugarach. This all reeks of media fabrication, as I personnally observed with their false flag operations against the anti-nuclear movement.
It also seemed obvious that these extraterrestrials were more spiritually advanced than us, which made very plausible the idea that they would first contact spiritually advanced people, instead of the incompetents who served as our governments at the time.
The first «real» contactee I met was Jean Michel Surmely, who came to the Faitg, probably in 1984 or early 1985. He claimed (and still claims in 2020) to be in contact with a group of extraterrestrials led by Ashtar Sheran, delivering, like Adamsky, very kind spiritual messages, all of high vibration, saying to be there to help Earthlings in the ongoing spiritual transition. At that time, he showed us paintings of these figures, which pioneered the technique of saturated colors harmonized in pastel, designed to produce high vibrations, which would become the basis of the New Age painting some years later. I myself have used this style ever since (or ever since I learned to hold a paintbrush, actually). This innovation was credible proof that Jean Michel and his friends were truly receiving spiritual messages. Today, it is still easy to find these images on the internet, searching for «ascended masters». In fact, they are more often in the Sulpician style than New Age or Celtic. But many are bizarre, as if painted by lunatics.
It was difficult to catch Surmely liying. But once, he suggested we spend a night watch in the nearby countryside, saying we would have «chances of seeing ships» (implying that this had been indicated to him telepathically). There were about six of us, and the evening was well underway. At one point, he said, «I have already seen lights in the mountains» (The Canigou, visible from where we were). To which I replied, cautious but not at all skeptical, «we must be careful, because there are roads high up in the mountains» (for example, at the Batère mines, which were still operating at the time, at an altitude over 2,000 meters). He nodded as if he agreed, but about ten minutes later he said, «I don't think they'll come tonight». Obviously, he could no longer pretend that the lights in the mountains were UFOs. So, despite being «nice», Jean Michel was indeed a fraud, who has not changed his tune in the 21st century.
Jean Michel was not coming alone, once he brought another supposed contactee, who today irresistibly reminds me of the cretin in the film «Brice de Nice». Like the later, he spoke very loudly, only to spout nonsense. I once heard Viviane whispering that he did some bad thing, like rape, I never knew exactly what, but it was worthy of the film. Except that in real, it is not fun at all. (Even my computer could not handle this movie to the end. An interesting detail: since I could not remember the title, I googled «stupid movies», and it came up first.)
Daniel Meurois and Anne Givaudan became famous with their books, especially «The way of the Essenes» a fantastic epic spanning thousands of years of reincarnations of this eternally united mystical couple, in an episode centered on the life of Jesus Christ (it is crazy how many people claim to have met Jesus, there must have been more people at the Crucifixion than at the OK Corral). And of course, there also we read wonderful mystical messages, punctuated by some very curious warnings from Jesus against... the vegetarians. And here we go again. There even is a scene where Jesus shows a bluish aura surrounding meat, declaring, «It is not what goes into our mouths which matters, but what comes out of it». Yes, of course. But well, I care for both. It is incredible how many charlatans use high spirituality to protect their sausage. The affair ended in court, with the divorce of the eternal mystical couple, Anne disavowing Daniel, and the latter continuing to reincarnate alone in different eras of the past, after various inconsistencies such as meeting Manetho, who lived 300 years before Christ. The moral of the story: for these charlatans, it is not what goes in our mouths which matters, but what they shove in our behinds.
A visible consequence of this saga remains: the «Lune Soleil» (Moon Sun) building, a dark brown wooden rotunda, near Le Moustier, in the Dordogne, within walking distance of the «Dhagpo Kagyu Ling» Buddhist center (45°1’2.05"N, 1°2’58.6"W). There even is a website and a Facebook page, which seem to have remained stuck in the 1980’ by a space-time fault. In any case, they make no mention of their not so illustrious founders.
Another very similar case was Findhorn. It all started with the «Findhorn Gardens», which were touted as impossible due to the frigid Scottish climate and sandy soil. Actually, sand has never been a problem for a gardener; I know that from experience. As for the climate, Google Earth shows vast fields of grain in the immediate vicinity of Findhorn, and even as farther north as the tip of Scotland and the Shetland Islands. So this is nothing extraordinary. But back then there was no Google Earth to debunk the lies, and these gardens were presented as a miracle springing up in the middle of inhospitable, uncultivable Scottish moors. Today (2020) There certainly are some beautiful architectural achievements in Findhorn, and the «magical» gardens are still there. But why here too the vegetarians «failed to stabilize their vision?» (Translation: they were harassed until they left. Otherwise, why the third person?). This makes the whole affair highly suspicious. Why is it that the god Pan (Just him!!) had to visit these people specifically, but not you or me?
There is a tempting explanation: these people are not spiritual at all, and they are simply playing this game to present themselves as important figures. But talking about astrology and good vibes does not commit anybody to anything, whereas concrete actions like vegetarianism require a real, physical investment. Far beyond the comfort zone of their egos. And to claim to be friends with gods or to give lessons to Jesus Christ, they have to have a seriously inflated one, of ego.
Today, Findhorn and the Erraid Island community are still active, and apparently well-established institutions. They now have their own websites, which promote ecology, «sacred dances», nonviolence, tolerance... Here too the New Age seems to have recycled in «well being», not in real transformative spirituality.
The case I examined with the most details was that of the magazine «Spirale», based in Elliant, Finistère. At the Faitg, we had already received the first six issues, presenting as real facts dozens of community groups, in France alone, receiving extraterrestrials physically and frolicking with them among the stars. It was fantastic, exhilarating! We had the impression of a movement growing at a prodigious speed, preparing for an official contact in just some years. Just that they were giving no names, no addresses... Since it was at that time that I made my failed attempt to leave the Faitg, in the 1985 summer, I was available to visit them in Elliant, and meet several members of the group who lived there. Hoping to finally encounter these famous extraterrestrials myself, without having to go through all those bizarre people who were screening around them. After all, I had decided, on my own, to dedicate my life to spreading the ideal of a better society, so I thought that if extraterrestrials had also undertaken this work, then they could give a much clearer direction for my own efforts.
So I stayed some days in Eliant, where clearly nothing of this sort happened. Right on the contrary, I discovered connections with the Frank Fontaine story, which already made me seriously doubt the whole affair.
There still were some nice things, though, like the dome houses project, round, eco-friendly houses made of cedar wood, which has since materialized in dozens of builds across Europe (but not in Eliant proper: the town hall scoffed at the project, thus missing the opportunity to be the first. The fact that the New Age movement had been relatively discreet did not protected it from such idiotic reactions).
On extraterrestrials, one of the members of the group even claimed to have physically entered a spaceship! So, faced with my insistence on seeing these things by myself, they finally sent me to Michel Mélendre, apparently the only one of these dozens of communities and contactees who was reachable. He recounted in the «Spirale» magazine his fabulous stories of physical encounters with blue-skinned extraterrestrials on a deserted road in the Landes of Gascogne. This time I had a direct source! So I jumped on the train.
Michel lived in Bordeaux, and when I got off the train at the Saint Jean station, he was waiting for me right outside my carriage door, and he called me by my name. Impressive. But I immediately sensed that something was off: his bad vibration did not matched his wonderful stories at all. Michel was actually quite well-known in Bordeaux, and I remembered having already seen his Citroën 2CV (at the university restaurant on Place de la Victoire). the one from his RR4 stories, completely painted with a dragon. He took me to his place, where he lived with two women, two children (whom I only vaguely glimpsed), and a punk. On the wonderful side, there were these women who also painted in beautiful colors and smiled at me, though they did not spoke to me (I suspect Mélendre had forbidden them to, and indeed they did not joined us for the evening). Michel claimed to be receiving messages from Haurrio, and that anyone could meet him if, by chance, they happened to be in a group of four men and three women. A rather curious condition, which caused quite a stir in the small community of those interested in physical contact. A condition which was indeed met that evening, but no sign of Haurrio! On the grotesque side, there was this punk. Grotesque is indeed the right word, because back then, being a punk meant black clothes, stupid features, big buttocks, bad vibes, cynicism, and Nazi humor, completely at the opposite of Haurrio's fairy tales. The inconsistency was enormous! Worse, at one point this punk pulled out his sausage, mockingly saying, «Richard is going to suffer.» If he was doing that to annoy me instead of enjoying the moment, too bad for him. The same thing happened the next day when a neighbor was cutting down a tree: «Richard is going to suffer», as if I were the only one capable of emotions. But when I asked Michel if I could stay with his group, he delivered the final blow: «No, because we are not vegetarians.» I must say, I was completely dumbfounded. Anti-vegetarian extraterrestrials? That was utterly ridiculous.
So the whole thing was just a big hoax?
It was, and I got official proof some weeks later: a seventh and final issue of the magazine «Spirale» with titled «the Illusions». The people from Elliant explained that Michel had tried to scam them out of the money meant for the dome houses, in order to buy himself a van, and go in a holiday in the Luberon. He claimed that this money would be useless to them, since the world was going to end in some months. This incident also confirmed that the Elliant group was entirely a sequel of the Frank Fontaine affair. It was the small group of people who had believed him, and who had organized UFO vigils there. There even was Jean-Pierre Prévost in Elliant (the one who had organized the whole masquerade around Frank Fontaine). The people of Elliant had not mentioned his presence to me, because they were on bad terms with him. Or perhaps because it would have raised my suspicions! (Having participated in the SAPT UFO commission, I was perfectly aware that the Frank Fontaine affair was nothing but a load of delirium, with exactly zero interest for the ufologist)
It was then difficult to escape the inevitable conclusion: the whole affair was nothing but lies, Mélendre having invented all the stories and groups of witnesses mentioned in the Spirale Review, just to put his ego at the center of the attention. Even the «physical witness» I had met «did not remembered», it was Mélendre who had told him that he had boarded a spaceship, and that the extraterrestrials had erased his memory afterward! When desire is so strong that it blinds common sense...
Obviously, after this denunciation, Mélendre was burned in the New Age and UFO circles. He probably recycled himself in other scams since. Searching online, I saw him mentioned in a «chivalry order» around 2007, bedecked with stoles and high titles. It didn't take him long to recover.
Regarding his anti-vegetarian extraterrestrials, this curious stance is actually quite easily explained: he understood that I would not be satisfied with empty talks, I instead wanted to meet his extraterrestrials for real. Since he obviously could not show them to me, he had to deflect the blame in a way he considered credible within his New Age milieu. Indeed, hostility towards vegetarians was common in this milieu of fake theatrical spirituality which frantically rejected any real effort to become better.
As for the Eliant team, they were none other than Franck Fontaine's fans, the small group who had believed his nonsense and who had rallied around Jean-Pierre Prévost! I recently (2018) found some people from Eliant on Facebook. However, only one replied. It is understandable that they are not proud of having been duped in this way. But we were partners in crime, in a way. This condescending attitude suggests that ultimately their entire spirituality was a sham, and that it would still be.
A telling detail is that their Facebook friends list included several television presenters who were quite well-known at the time. That they had links with high priests of the media, inaccessible to ordinary people, lends credence to the idea that the Frank Fontaine affair might have been a media stunt, one of those fabricated false flag operations, like the Mayan prophecy, the inedia, Bugarach, or the Arab conspiracy in the AZF explosion, a vast disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the idea of extraterrestrial contacts (which was gaining traction at the time). Indeed, it is hard to see why the media would be interested in two idiots spouting nonsense in their corner, like thousands of others who appear every day. (Hey guys, I was contacted by the Likpas, why aren't you talking about me in the TV???)
This paragraph added in 2026: I have since removed all these people from my Facebook friends list, due to their links to conspirationism.
The fact that I could not integrate myself into this group also shows that it was a clan, not a group trying to serve an ideal. In the latter case, they would not have silently dismissed me. But neither the people at Eliant nor those on the TV accepted me! They certainly had good reason to, given my General Epistemology and my artistic creations for a better world. But epistemology is frightening: it is the ultimate weapon against lies and manipulation!
Another interesting detail is that, in its anti-cult rantings, Charlie Hebdo presented Mélendre as «a contactee», meaning genuinely contacted, not as a «supposed contactee» (as one would expect from fundamentalist atheists). Thus, they believed that he was truly in contact with extraterrestrials, and they hated him for this. Are you surprised that they hate extraterrestrials, when they already hate Mankind?
There was not much left to cling at, after this affair, except for the principle of painting using only saturated colors. What I still do, but in a deliberately more realistic style than the New Age (without, however, disavowing the latter). But, despite these disappointments, between Mélendre, Surmely, Viviane, Givaudan, Findhorn, Eliant, Adamsky, there were too many beautiful things in common in all these false messages for it to be due to mere chance.
We are to see how in the following sub-chapter:
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(This sub-chapter can be considered independent. However, it also serves as a demystification of the so-called «contactees» discussed in the previous sub-chapter.)
If such «extraterrestrial messages» were merely the feat of con artists, we could argue that they simply invented them as baits. But then, pure charlatans would have chosen more commercially viable bait, such as sex (Raël), violence (racist anti-ET films and video games), horror (Strieber), and so on. The fact that a large number of them chose a commercially unprofitable topic like the New Age is already strange.
But even more troubling is that there also are a multitude of people who have perceived similar things without claiming to be contactees, for example all the artists of the New Age movement. Therefore, there is indeed something real, although we cannot discern its source. One example is Iasos, one of the very first New Age musicians, who indeed spoke of «receiving» his music. But that was in 1975, years before all the hype surrounding fake contactees, and later he did not started claiming to see extraterrestrials or «ascended masters». we can therefore consider him authentic, along with many other artists from the same period.
In fact, what I think is happening today is that the reception of spiritual inspiration, once rare and fantastical (prophets, founders of religions), is becoming increasingly common, but without fanfare or glory. And today, only a small number of mythomaniacs, wackos or con artists still publicly claim to meet extraterrestrials, angels, and so on. Thus, all the necessary inspiration is available to everyone, and it automatically enters our minds, as fast as the opinions and ideologies get out.
And this is much better: everyone has all the elements at their disposal to establish a course of action consistent with the ongoing change. So there is no longer the risk of an ego becoming some new tyrant, corrupting the entire movement, founding a new religion or a new party. We can even be wary of anyone who presents themselves as superior or indispensable leaders. All good, you will think, spirituality has become a freedom thing. But there is a very troubling corollary: everyone engages his full responsibility. Thus, staying glued in front of the TV becomes as culpable as committing the crimes the said TV depicts. I do not know if there will be some kind of judgment at some point during the transition, but I would not bet on a total impunity. What might happen is a sorting out at some point, so that the bad guys can no longer harm the good. Which of the two sides will remain on Earth, I have no idea, but here too, evil does have better not to rely on uncertainty.
I have finally come to understand what is really happening with these phenomena. Indeed, since those unfortunate experiences, my understanding has evolved considerably. In Chapter V-7 of «General Epistemology», I explore how people can perceive such inspirations, whether they call them «extraterrestrial messages», «religious revelations», or simply «inspiration». There is a real phenomenon at the core. A very interesting phenomenon, but surrounded with very dangerous mirages and quicksand.
I explain the theory with more detail in >chapter V-10 of my book «General Epistemology».
Basically, Transcendence, whether we call it God, Clear Light, Force, Emptiness, etc., is not a person, force, or entity external to us, but an intrinsic property of consciousness itself. This explains why we encounter it everywhere, just like the God of the catechism who sees everything we do. Therefore, «Receiving messages» from it is not a parapsychological phenomenon (telepathy), because in fact, we do not receive information from any external source. We simply discover what has always been there, within reach, in our own minds, but which our inner chatter and aimless strategies have been hiding from us. Thus, everybody can receive inspiration from Transcendence. This can happen during intense emotion, a trial, a near-death experience, in meditation, in contact with nature, in contact with psychologically normal people, etc.
Even better, the messages are intrinsically positive, and moreover, the same for everybody, because they originate from the very structure of consciousness! This is easy to understand if we compare the laws of consciousness to the laws of physics. The laws of physics lead to an inevitable and always identical result: immobility and cold, as soon as we stop disturbing them by supplying energy. The same is true for consciousness: as soon as we stop agitating it with worldly thoughts, it always leads to a single state, identical state for everybody, a state of inner peace and love, where life seems so simple. Hence the impression of a single, highly evolved source. This point is discussed in the linked chapters. For theists, this source may be considered as the part of the One God which exists within each of us. For Buddhists, it is our Buddha Nature. The two viewpoints are two conceptual systems approximating the same transcendent reality (chapter I-9). In practice, the many differences in the observed message stem from the diverging concepts used to describe a Transcendence which is itself unique.
However, as soon as this contact is established, a dangerous bandit awaits: the ego.
The ego is none other than the functioning of the brain, more precisely its inference engine, the neural system which produces the chaining of our thoughts, emotions, intents. And, since the brain is a material object, it has no access to Transcendence, nor to the goals of consciousness. It does not even know the truth, scientific or otherwise, but only opinions, which are neuroses gathered randomly according to its positive or negative experiences. Hence its intrinsic and incurable amorality and stupidity. The major problem with the human condition is that consciousness is accustomed to following the dictates of the ego, because this is how it was born. Worse, if we do not pay attention, it is the ego which cooks for us the entire content of our consciousness: feelings, ideas, intents, daydreams, and so on. This is how so many people behave totally at random, while imagining that they like it or that they decided it themselves. While in reality they are merely obeying electrical fluctuations in some neurons tampered by years of television conditioning and haphazardous experiences. This is also why they inflict so much suffering upon themselves, which they imagine to be «necessary», on the basis of their jumble of opinions, prejudices and ideologies, which they call «the truth». (Note that I am not either advocating the very dangerous material/spiritual opposition, see the discussion in the linked chapter.)
But sometimes consciousness «detaches» from the brain and functions autonomously. This experience is then perceived as a wonderful message from the Transcendence. And all our ego-driven plans and concerns therefore appear to us for what they truly are: pathetic, useless, dangerous. This phenomenon, rare millennia ago, was called Revelation or Prophecy at the time, and it is at the origin of the great religions. These Revelations were indeed authentic spiritual experiences. But this phenomenon is becoming increasingly common today, potentially happening with anybody. And without any religious or prophetic pretenses anymore. This is what allows great intuitions like ecology, New Age art, vegetarianism, spirituality, economic justice, gender equality, and respect for animals to spread as they do today, without the need for an organization or ideology, and even across Iron Curtains. And if millions of people suddenly embrace an emerging idea, it is not because that idea «spreads», but because they had already more or less perceived it themselves beforehand. Only words and concepts spread. Movements merely become visible when a new word allows people to recognize themselves in an idea. But given the propensity of the media to distort and disparage the meaning of the words, it is much better that the new Revolution be wordless. Only who is connected to the Void understands.
The BIG problem, however, is that the ego immediately appropriates the experience. Indeed, it is for the ego the source of a fantastic energy, which it is completely incapable of producing itself. What happens then is that, at best, the ego interprets the experience according to the dogmas and beliefs it already carries in his bag, as religious preachers have often done (or been forced to do, to avoid being burned at the stake). This is how these people came to see in the experience a message from their angels, according to their pre-existing religion. At this point, the damage is still limited. But the uncontrolled ego will completely appropriate the experience and make it its own. Which, of course, immediately stops any contact with the Transcendence. Indeed, this contact only occurs when the brain is in a state of mental emptiness. Simple excitement, and all the more plans and projects, instantly block the reception of the Transcendence (like Kador, the intellectual dog of the Bidochons, who levitates, but only when he is bored, which makes it impossible to «scientifically reproduce the experience», let alone to exploit it commercially). This experience then becomes a mere memory, then just another opinion or belief, pretty but worthless, lifeless. As if we kept only the box which had contained this fantastic gift.
And here the damage can be much more serious: it only takes a little dishonesty, often not even conscious, to distort the content of the experience according to our prejudices, to filter it, distort it, limit it, or misrepresent it. Here is the source of the so common distortions in religious revelations, such as the traditional misogyny and prudishness. But, here we go, here comes from all the pollution of the new inspirations: opposition to vegetarians, opposition to science, jumble of astronomy beliefs, etc. This is also why so many differences of opinion remain even within a movement as well-defined as ecology.
As to sociopaths or manipulators, they are of course unable to connect with the Transcendence on their own. But their psychological skills will quickly allow them to discern its importance to others. Then, to pose themselves as bearers of Revelation (religious, spiritual, UFO-related, political...) allows them to draw energy from normal people. Indeed, orfinary persons are eager to get this energy which slips through their fingers every time they try to grasp at it. The fake guru, the fake contactee, the political leader, the conspirationist, then represent, for their followers, a source of energy which is much more available. This is what sociopaths or con artists are waiting for: their false revelations then become a powerful instrument of power over others, as they pose themselves as mediums, contacted by the gods, by aliens, etc. A mindset typical of manipulators like Viviane, Mélendre, Adamski, Surmely, Jean-Pierre Prévost, Strieber, etc.
And the criterion for recognizing them is ultimately quite simple: their false «messages» contain factual elements such as proper names, places, dates, people, etc., whereas contact with the Transcendence cannot possibly provide any such details. Indeed, this contact with Transcendence is not a reception of information, it is only a space of freedom which opens up within the jumble of our neuroses and opinions. From here comes from the feeling of ineffable simplicity often reported.
Only a genuine telepathic contact with another consciousness can contain such factual elements. But in this case, Karl Popper raises his staff of priest of science: these elements can only be considered true if they can be independently verified. Such checked perceptions happened to me several times, as recounted all alont those memories. But if the message contains unverifiable factual elements, or elements which verification proves negative, then we are dealing with, at the very least, a pathological liar (sick, but not evil). If, in addition, this person tries to destabilize you, as Mélendre and Viviane did with me, then they are psychopaths (ill and evil). It is as simple as that. We just don't think about it, and this is how we end up with years of suffering without understanding. Of course, you will not be fooled, because of course, since I started publishing all my theories on consciousness in 1999, you will have been taught all this at school. But in 1985, nobody knew these things.
Other simple criteria make it easy to identify these situations: sexism,(Viviane), rejection of science (Viviane, bobo ecology), rejection of vegetarians (Mélendre), rejection of non-vegetarians (Faitg), prudishness, pornography, loveless sex (bobos), rejection of categories of people considered bad, isolation within a group or doctrine, rejection of society, rejection of matter, rejection of spirituality, dualism, etc.
Thus, I have no reason to regret my «experimental approach» to these phenomena, as it helped me understand the dangerous zone of egotistical illusions which surrounds it. This understanding is important, and it needed to be shared, because you will inevitably encounter this phenomenon sooner or later, when you will in turn receive an inspiration, or when you meet people who share a revelation you were not expecting. None of your opinions can prepare you to the absence of opinion. If I myself had known this trap earlier, it would have spared me nine years of psychological harassment, and above all, of spiritual uncertainty. A level of suffering that, as we see in this chapter, led at least four of my companions in the Faitg to suicide.
Notes.
It should be noted that the majority of Elliant's team members, or the visitors to the Faitg, were simply ordinary people like you and me, neither psychopaths nor mythomaniac, nor even more gullible than the average. They too were simply lured by a very new, very seductive, very emotional scam, promising the paradise in just some years, and above all, presenting the appearance of strong evidences (the multiple groups supposedly receiving extraterrestrials daily, as reported in the magazine «Spirale»). Furthermore, this evidence was given credibility by the irrational censorship of UFOs, which put society in the wrong (and which is the root cause of conspirationism). And you yourself might fall victim to another, as yet unknown scam, having seen ads for it in supermarkets or supposedly ecological magazines: gluten-free diets, toxic electricity meters, 5G spreading viruses, climate change denial, flat Earth, the «deep state», COVID denial, and so on. The imagination of con artists knows no bounds. And it is not necessarily money they are after, nor even power or sex: they primarily seek to steal your energy by making you focus your though on them, thanks to their countless taboos disrupting your life.
I have, of course, tried to harness this phenomenon of inspiration myself, with interesting results, such as my artistic creations. This can be achieved through meditation. But I have never seen aliens or gods land in my room (not even anti-vegetarian imprecators brandishing a dry sausage, ha ha ha!). On the contrary, I try to justify myself scientifically, which keeps the door open for others to correct my possible own errors.
There is, however, one specific case which deserves discussion: in meditation, such as Chakra or Kundalini meditation, we often have the sensation of a presence near us. But it is not always the same, and moreover, it has a curious tendency to push us towards unbridled sexuality. The Tibetan Lamas I asked said that we should either pay no attention to such things, or visualize them as our Yidam. And if you wish to consider them real, do so in a non-dualistic way with considering them as illusions. This will spare you bad surprises.
And, if really some extraterrestrials seek to contact humans telepathically, as I suggest in chapter VIII-9, then we should expect them to be well-versed in these mirages, and that they will request an iron discipline from any formal contact until they have sufficiently mastered and purified their ego to faithfully transmit their message. They will ruthlessly cut off all contact with liars and mythomaniacs before granting them the slightest endorsement. Conversely, it is understandable that ordinary Earthlings will also ask for verifiable proof before believing such stories. Especially after all the idioties of the so-called contactees, reptilian conspiracies, anal probes, and so on. They did not liked that.
My idea is that, if extraterrestrials are trying to guide humanity telepathically, then they would simply be facilitating the contact with Transcendence. Indeed, Transcendence is enough to guide us, as it already contains everything we need, and moreover it fully respects our freedom.
Then, possible extraterrestrials therefore do not need to provide information about themselves, and it could even be dangerous for them if they did. All the paranoid conspirationism about UFOs probably severely damaged any telepathic link, far more than the media's childish denial.
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(Permalink) Written in December 2020.
While I did not exactly «saw a UFO» at the Faitg, something very peculiar did happened one day. But first, let us look at the very specific context of this evening.
You would not expect a region as far south and sunny as North-Pyrenean Catalonia to be prone to catastrophic blizzards worthy of the Canada. Yet it happened twice during my stay. The first time, a meter of snow fell across the entire department in a single evening! It caused practically all the power lines to collapse under the weight of a particularly sticky snow. It was a surreal sight: rows of high-voltage pylons stretching to the horizon, all toppled or lying on the ground, each in a different pose, like giants mown down in a battle. EDF (French utility for electricity) had to conduct studies to understand the phenomenon: the wind causes the wires to rotate. Wet snow at zero degrees quickly forms a sleeve around them. This sleeve attracts even more snow, growing heavier until the wire snaps. Having understood the problem, EDF had scheduled a solution for... the average interval between two such events. Unfortunately, a second blizzard did not wait for that interval to come around snapping all the lines again! So, EDF deployed the solution without delay: small pendulums attached to the wires, so that to stop them from rotating. If you go on around Perpignan, Céret or Collioure, you will certainly notice these small balls hanging from the lines. They are here for when Canada pays a visit to the land of the cicadas. We love you the chums, your accent, your raguettes, the caribou and all. But tabarnak, stop breaking our power lines.
That evening was therefore quite unsettling, the power was already out, and a strange greenish light had replaced the usual twilight, all amidst the thick fog of a massive snowstorm. I had never seen anything like this, and I never saw it again. I no longer remember the reason, but Viviane had wanted the four of us to stay in our bedroom at the top of the tower. She was likely frightened by the atmosphere. The upside was that we had the best view of any room in the Faitg.
What we did not knew, and only learned days later, was that a tragedy was unfolding at the very same time. A man, a novice «neo-rural», former town dweller and new country inhabitant, who had recently moved into a nearby farmhouse, had gone to Perpignan to do shopping with his baby. Upon returning that evening, he found the access road to his farmhouse blocked by the snow. He went to the village to ask for a snowplow, but there are no snowplows in the land of the cicadas. Locals advised him to spend the night in the village, as venturing onto a forest track during a blizzard at night is extremely dangerous. The old-timers knew the terrain far better than the newcomers, naturally. But the man refused, fixated on «rescuing» his wife as in a movie, as she was isolated in their farmhouse. In reality, she was perfectly safe, those old farmhouses, with their sturdy oak frameworks, had weathered far worse. He got into his car and drove into the forest, heading toward his home. The next day, the car was found stuck in a snowdrift. His body was discovered a short distance away, shielding his baby, who could then survive one more hour or two, thanks to that protection. His wife, totally unharmed, sued the municipality for failing to send a snowplow, and obviously she lost. In short, a wretched tale of totally derealized people. This guy would deserve a Darwin Award, bu he is disqualified because of the innocent baby he killed with him.
It was during this time that, viewed from my room at the Faitg, amidst the primordial darkness of the world without electricity, the snowy fog became tinged with light. A bluish light which slowly intensified. The «rational» explanation is that electric arcs were forming on the nearby medium-voltage power line. But the light was too steady for an arc, and, most notably, every time I approached the window to look, it... would go out. This happened four or five times, so it could hardly be a coincidence. To this day, I still have no explanation.
Curiously, of the four of us, I was the only one to see this phenomenon, as if the others were shutting it out of their consciousness. It is astonishing, but some people with deeply entrenched religious views have refused to look at a UFO or any other remarkable phenomenon. This was observed during the french Taizé UFO incident. I saw the same thing among leftists in Bordeaux: a rocket (from the nearby CEL) shot up into the sky. I exclaimed «Rocket!» and pointed at it, but my leftist «comrades» refused to look! I believe we should steer clear of people with that kind of mindset. My own experience has always confirmed this.
In the days which followed, brilliant sunshine in a pristine blue sky bathed the landscape in a shimmering white glow. The snow was of a virginal purity, and the sun filtered through one metre of thickness, yielding a very pure blue.
We spent two weeks completely cut off from the world, like pioneers in the Far North, with a 50kg sack of Borsa flour, a ton of sawdust for the stoves, a wood-burning oven for cooking, and forays into the garden in tall boots to gather vegetables. I remember the cabbages, the only ones which presence was visible. But I knew where the carrots were, I managed to have some almost all year round.
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