Memories of Richard Trigaux:
UFOs

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.

 

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.

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UFOs in the 1960s (Saint Dizier)

(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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CIA propaganda aiming at children

(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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The years 1960s (Béchar)

(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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Mysterious flashes in the Sky

(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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Mysteries in the years 1960s (Mont de Marsan)

(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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Years 1970 (Toulouse) et la SAPT

(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!

 

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