much as twenty hours a day, and in spite <strong>of</strong> his parents' advice, he didn't want to consult a doctor.He simply couldn't stay on his feet when exhaustion hit him, and this went on for about two months.Something else happened to him in connection with his sleeping pattern: in the early morninghours, between 4:00 and 5:00 A.M. It seemed to him that he was "floating <strong>of</strong>f". His mind would bealert, although his body was paralyzed, and he would feel his consciousness leaving his body.In later conversations with the investigators, I learned <strong>of</strong> changes in the witness's behavior andbelief system. He surprised everyone in this remote area <strong>of</strong> France by recommending to youngpeople that they study astronomy and science in general with great care. And, in a private discussionwith one <strong>of</strong> the researchers who have for several years followed up this remarkable case, hecasually mentioned that he might soon have to write a book. It was pointed out to him that he couldhardly write even the most simple letter. "They told me not to worry about that," he said. "When thetime ir right, I will know what to put on paper."We are touching here the very essence <strong>of</strong> prophecy. They told him.... But who are they? It seemsthat, in recurrent dreams since the incident with the flying disk, he has seen a number <strong>of</strong> mendressed in red and each holding a book and pointing at it. Nothing else happens in the dream. Justthe men and the book.More recently, he has traveled over two hundred miles to visit the investigator <strong>of</strong> this case, who hadleft precise instructions to keep him closely informed <strong>of</strong> any new and important development. Whenhe was in the investigator's house, he did have something important to say, but he could not talk.The part <strong>of</strong> his brain that handled verbal expression and the mechanism <strong>of</strong> language could notprocess the data that he knew were there.The Delphos CaseOn the evening <strong>of</strong> November 2, 1971, on the Johnson farm located near Delphos, Kansas, anunknown object was reported to have come down almost to ground level and to have then taken <strong>of</strong>f.It was seen by a young man and later by his parents, and it would simply have gone into the annals<strong>of</strong> ufology as one <strong>of</strong> many thousands <strong>of</strong> landings if it had not been for several secondary effects theobjects created: it affected animals; it left peculiar traces on the ground; and, as in the French case<strong>of</strong> Aveyron, it affected the witness's sleeping pattern.Here again the young son <strong>of</strong> the farmer is the main witness. Sixteen-year-old Ronald Johnson wastending the sheep, accompanied by his dog, when the sighting happened. What he suddenly sawwas a mushroom-shaped object, illuminated by multicolored lights over its entire surface andhovering twenty-five yards away, within two feet <strong>of</strong> the ground. Its diameter was about nine feet.The glow from the object was such that Ronald could see no details, and it was making a sound like"an old washing machine which vibrates." Then it brightened at the base and took <strong>of</strong>f. The witnessreportedly became temporarily blind. During all this the dog was "very quiet."After several minutes, Ronald, regaining his sight, ran into the house to call his parents, and allcame out again to see the object, now high in the sky and over half the full moon in size. It vanishedinto the distance. The three witnesses went around the house to the site <strong>of</strong> the near landing and weresurprised, they said, to observe a glowing ring on the ground. Parts <strong>of</strong> nearby trees were alsoglowing. The texture <strong>of</strong> the soil, reports an experienced investigator, Mr. Ted Phillips, "felt strange,like a slick crust, as if the soil was crystallized." And Mrs. Johnson noticed that her fingers wentnumb, as if a local anesthetic had been applied. She is a nurse at a nearby hospital, and for twoweeks this condition prevented her from taking the pulse <strong>of</strong> her patients.The next day the ring was still clearly visible, with a dry and "crusty" appearance. The inside andthe outside <strong>of</strong> the ring were damp from recent rains, but the ring itself was perfectly dry! Thirty-twodays later, when Ted Phillips was able to go to the scene, snow had fallen and was melting bothoutside and inside the ring, but the one-foot-wide ring was perfectly white.We removed snow from one section <strong>of</strong> the ring and introduced water into the exposed ring
area: the soil would not permit the water to pass through the surface. This was mostremarkable, as there had been several inches <strong>of</strong> rain and snow.Phillips removed a sample from the ring and observed that it contained a high concentration <strong>of</strong> awhitish material. The soil under the ring was dry to a depth <strong>of</strong> at least one foot.This is not an isolated occurrence. Hundreds <strong>of</strong> reports <strong>of</strong> ring-shaped patterns have been gathered,and many <strong>of</strong> them refer to a white substance or powder at the site. A similar occurrence took placein New Zealand, at a place named Waihoke, in January 1965. The ring there was visible for fouryears before it was finally covered with grass. It is curious that in spite <strong>of</strong> all the excitement causedby the Delphos case and the attention it recieved from "scientific" ufologists and from skeptics, noone, believer or skeptic, ever bothered to identify the white substance itself. Thorough analyses <strong>of</strong>the soil have been made, however, showing no significant difference between the inside and theoutside <strong>of</strong> the ring. I eventually obtained a sample <strong>of</strong> the white substance from Mr. Phillips andforwarded it to a biological laboratory in France, where it was examined under a microscope withmagnifications ranging from a few diameters to the maximum enlargement possible under the oilimmersion technique. The white substance was resolved into fibers (thus destroying the"explanation" <strong>of</strong> the case put forth by Philip Klass in his book UFOs Explained, where he claimedthe substance was produced by the urine <strong>of</strong> sheep feeding from a circular device). The fibers werevegetal in nature and belonged to an organism <strong>of</strong> the order <strong>of</strong> the Actinomycetales, which is anintermediate organism between bacteria and fungus. (The French biologist who identified it, andwho has wished not to be named in this book, determined that the organism belongs to the family <strong>of</strong>the actinomycete and the genus Nocardia.) It is <strong>of</strong>ten found together with a fungus <strong>of</strong> the order <strong>of</strong>the Bacidiomycepes, which may fluoresce under certain conditions.This fungus can cause a circular pattern to be visible on the surface <strong>of</strong> the ground. This isundoubtedly the explanation for some UFO rings, but the coincidence <strong>of</strong> this fungus ring with theobservation made by the Johnsons remains to be explained. One possible interpretation is that highenergystimulation triggered the spectacular growth <strong>of</strong> the Nocardia and <strong>of</strong> an exiting fungus andcaused the latter to fluoresce.The effects <strong>of</strong> the glowing object an animals were consistent with other landing cases. During thesighting itself, the dog was very quiet and still. The sheep were bellowing, but like the dog theywere almost glued to the spot. The boy could not move either, but it was not clear to him whetherthis was due to fear or to another cause. The behavior <strong>of</strong> the animals after the sighting wasremarkable. For about two weeks, every evening at sunset, the sheep would jump out <strong>of</strong> the pen andrun wildly. The dog would furiosly try to get into the house at nightfall. He practically destroyed thescreen door, and the only way to keep him outside was to replace it with a stronger metal door.There were striking effects on the witness himself, too. First he suffered from strong eye irritation;his eyes were red and watery. Then came the headaches and the nightmares. These nightmares,lasting about one week, were so vivid that he would wake up his parents with loud screams. He hadthe same dream, night after night, in which human-like creatures were looking into his windowfrom the outside. Two or three times, when coming into his bedroom, his parents found himscreaming, standing by the window.The Confusion Technique in the <strong>Contact</strong> RitualEarlier I recounted the story <strong>of</strong> a witness who was asked the time by a UFO occupant. "It is 2:30,"the witness replied."You lie; it is four o'clock," said the occupant.I am indebted to Gerald Askevold for bringing to my attention a fascinating story by Dr. MiltonErickson, a pioneer in modern hypnosis, concerning "The Gentle Art <strong>of</strong> Reframing":One windy day... a man came rushing around the corner <strong>of</strong> a building and bumped hard
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PART ONE: THE ALIEN CHRONICLESIn th
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About the AuthorAn astrophysicist b