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police could not obtain information as to the results of the analyses.
In the words of the local police chief:
The official body working in liaison with the Air Police belongs
to the Ministry of National Defense. The very name of this Ministry
excludes the idea of any communication.
On November 19, 1954, the following facts came to light: the
police confirmed that Dcwilde had made a second report concerning
an observation of an object "in the vicinity of his home."
(We were later to learn that the report in fact described a landing.
) However, the police said 7
Dewilde and his family have decided, for fear of adverse publicity,
to take no one in their confidence regarding this second occurrence.
Therefore you will find no mention of it in local newspapers.
Furthermore, civilian investigators were told—politely but in no
uncertain terms—that any further information on such incidents
would be kept confidential by the police.
Reports continued, however, and some of them would have
delighted Paracelsus. On October 14, 1954, a miner named Starovski
claimed to have met, on a country road near Erchin (also in
the north of France), a strange being of small height and bulky
figure with large slanted eyes and a fur-covered body. The midget,
less than four feet tall, had a large head and wore a brown skullcap,
which formed a fillet a few inches above the eyes. The eyes
protruded, with very small irises; the nose was flat; the lips were
thick and red. A minor detail: the witness did not claim he had
seen the creature emerge from a flying saucer or rccnter it. He just
happened to meet the strange being, who did not wear any kind
of respiratory device. Before he could think of stopping him, the
creature had disappeared.
Six days later, on October 20, 1954, in Parravicino d'Erba, near
Como, Italy, a man had just put his car in the garage when he
saw a strange being, covered with a luminous suit, about four feet
tall, standing near a tree. When he saw the motorist, the creature
aimed a beam from some sort of flashlight at him, paralyzing the
witness until a motion he made when clenching the fist holding
the garage keys seemed to free him. He rushed to attack the
stranger, who rose from the ground and fled with a soft whirring
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sound. The author of this unbelievable story was thirty-seven years
old and was known locally as a trustworthy man. He arrived home
in a state of great shock and went to bed with a high fever. The
details of the case were obtained through an investigation by the
Italian police.
Eleven years later, the files of landing reports and strange creatures
associated with them had become very thick indeed. Then
a new flurry of reports began. On July I, 1965, Maurice Masse, a
French farmer who lived in Valensolc, had the following experience.
As he arrived in his field, at 6:00 A.M., and was getting ready
to start his tractor, he heard an unusual noise. Stepping into the
open, he saw a machine that had landed in his lavender field. He
I bought it must be some sort of prototype and walked toward it,
with a mind to tell the pilots, in no uncertain words, to go find
.mother landing spot for their contraption. It was only when he
was within twenty feet of the machine that he came in full view
of the scene and realized his mistake.
The object was egg-shaped, had a round cockpit, was supported
by six thin legs and a central pivot, and was not bigger than a car.
In front, appearing to examine a lavender plant, were the two
pilots. They were dressed in one-piccc, gray-greenish suits. On the
left side of their belts was a small container; a larger one was on
I he right side. They were less than four feet tall and had human
eves, but their heads were very large: about three times the volume
of a human head. They had practically no mouth, only a
very small opening, without lips. They wore no respiratory device,
no headgear, and no gloves. They had small, normal hands. When
Masse came upon them, they seemed to become suddenly aware
of his existence, and yet it was without any indication of fear or
surprise that one of the "pilots" took a small tube from its container
and pointed it at Masse—with the result that the witness
found himself suddenly incapable of movement.
For the next sixty seconds or so, the two entities looked at
Masse. They appeared to be exchanging their impressions vocally
in a sort of gargle. These sounds came from their throats, insisted
I he witness, but the mouths did not move. The eyes, in the meantime,
conveyed human expressions. In private, Masse told a civilian
investigator that he had not been frightened by their atti-