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investigation by a conference with Captain Corney, Wing Intelligence
OEcer with the 1707th Air Base Wing, on the morning
of September 9.
A conference was held with Capt. Corney to determine whether
or not there had been any late developments in this case that the
two ATIC officers were not familiar with. Capt. Corney stated that
to his knowledge there was nothing outstanding that had happened.
He was asked about the facts of supposedly anonymous threatening
telephone calls that Mr. Desvergers had received. He stated that
Desvergcrs had called him approximately two weeks ago and stated
that he had been receiving anonymous threatening telephone calls
while at work in the establishment in which he is employed. The gist
of the calls was telling Desvergers to lay off of his story and that if
he didn't he would be sorry and several other things.
Not much attention was given to this claim, however, and
Ruppclt continued his investigations by interviewing people who
knew the scoutmaster, and especially the members of the scout
group who were with him in the car when he decided to go into
the woods:
He gave the boys instructions to go get help if he wasn't back in
ten minutes and started in the woods. The boys claimed that they
could see his flashlight going back into the woods. From this point
on, the boys' stories varied to a certain degree.
The first boy states
that he did not sec the first light that Desvergers saw, however,
shortly afterwards, after Desvergers had got out, made the statement
about flying saucers, and got back into the automobile, he
looked out of the window and saw a semi-circle of white lights about
three inches in diameter [sic] going down at an angle of 45 degrees
into the trees. None of the other boy scouts saw this. He then states
that he saw Desvergers go back into the woods and that the next
thing that he saw was a series of red lights in the clearing. ... As
soon as he saw the red lights he claims that he saw Sonny "stiffen
up" and fall.
According to two other boys:
They both saw Desvergers going through the woods, could sec
flashlights flashing on the trees and then he disappeared for a few
seconds, at least the light disappeared. The next thing they saw was
a series of red lights. They said they looked a lot like flares or sky
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rockets. The lights were not making any definite pattern, some of
them were going up, some of them were going down, or going
around and around in all directions. It just seemed to be a type of
six or eight red lights going in all directions. This time they ran
down the road to get help.
Here we have confirmation from witnesses of the observation
of red lights. The witnesses were not close enough, however, to
experience the lights effects, but it is interesting to remark that
the lights kept "going around and around" after the scoutmaster
(according to his own account of the incident) was already
unconscious.
It is also interesting to note, in this connection, that over a
century ago Leroux dc Lincy, in his Livre des Legendes, had this
to say about the elves:
If a mortal being dares come near them, they open their mouth
and, struck by the breath which escapes from it, the imprudent
fellow dies poisoned.
On October 7, 1954, Mr. Margaillon saw an object which had
landed in a field in Montcux, France. It was shaped like a hemisphere,
about two and a half yards in diameter. The witness
gasped for air and felt paralyzed during the observation. The
sudden lack of air noted in the Cisco Grove case is not infrequently
reported by witnesses of landings. Nor arc the peculiar
eyes of the small entities: reddish-orange, glowing in the dark.
On October 9, 1954, in Lavoux, Vienne, France, a farmer who
was riding his bicycle suddenly stopped as he saw a figure, dressed
in a sort of "diving suit," aiming a double light-beam at him. The
individual, who seemed to have "boots without heels," very bright
eyes, and a very hairy chest, carried two "headlights," one below
the other, on the front of his suit.
Nine days later, in Fontcnay-Torcy, also in France, a man and
his wife reported that they saw a red cigar-shaped object in the
sky. All of a sudden, it dived toward them, leaving a reddish trail,
and landed behind some bushes. Upon reaching the top of a hill,
the witnesses found themselves confronted by a bulky individual,
human in appearance but only about three feet tall. He wore a
helmet, and his eyes glowed with an orange light. One of the
witnesses lost consciousness. Four other people saw the object in