| ID | #1600264977 |
| Added | Wed, 16/09/2020 |
| Author | July N. |
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| Phenomena | |
| Status | Fact
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A woman, a French language Professor, and her husband, a music Professor, set up camp in the South of France in Saint-Jean-Du-Gard, when she experienced a close encounter of the third type.
Partly because they asked nearby if anyone else had seen anything, they told only one friend, a student, about their experience. This student had been interested in the UFO phenomenon for several years, and the couple knew that he would at least have an open mind about it and listen to them without ridicule. The student did better: he recorded their report on magnetic tape.
Two years later, an investigation by Jean-Paul Guguin of the French national television and radio ORTF in Poitiers led to the discovery of this recording, which the student kept at the bottom of a drawer and it was then broadcast on February 27, 1974 at 20: 30 in the show "Pas de Panique" ("Don't panic») Claude Villiers, Olivier Nanto and Monique Debarba on the main national radio channel France-Inter.
Here is a transcription of what the French Professor woman recorded on this tape:
"What I saw happened in Saint-Jean-du-Gard on Wednesday, August 9, 1972, at about 02: 30 am. We returned late that night and camped with friends who had a garden on the terrace. This garden is located on the road to Nimes, at the exit of Saint-Jean-du-Gard. We were on one of the hills bordering the valley. I went outside at about 02: 30 in the morning because I heard the noise of a party in Saint-Jean-du-Gard.
Over the city, I could make out a fairly sharp glow created by the lights of the festival. But on our side, the sky remained dark.
There were big clouds and absolutely no light. Everything died out on the trails that rose above the hill. So I was walking in the fresh air when something like a white ball the size of a FIAT Isotta caught my eye.
This puzzled me: it was very brilliant. I didn't understand how this car could be so shiny when it was dark and no lights were on. This car was parked in a small Parking lot reserved for residents of three or four villas built on a hill.
I was watching this phosphorescent car, trying to figure out why it was so luminous, when I heard footsteps behind me. Strange footsteps, not too close together, not too heavy, as if a child were pressing on dry grass, moving quite regularly and slowly. When I heard these footsteps, I turned to the left: at a distance of three or four meters, a figure turned towards me. I don't want to say "a creature was looking at me" because I didn't feel that impression at the time.
This figure was about twenty meters high. It was completely black. A curious fact was that this body was a type of parallelepiped.
It seemed to me that this form is made of wood with a thickness of thirty to forty centimeters.
This parallelepiped was topped with an egg-shaped head. Two white circles at eye level, two white circles with a diameter of five centimeters - the only thing that was visible on this black mass, turned towards me, motionless. I couldn't see the feet or, say, the feet that he was supposed to walk on, because they were hidden by the tall grass.
I will never forget the impression I experienced: a painful fear, incredible, unnatural. It didn't come from me: it seemed to come from the shape I saw, as if it wanted to neutralize me.
I've never felt this way before. I had this feeling for about three seconds while my vision continued.
Around this "thing" nature seemed dead, as if frozen. It seemed that this creature exerted an extraordinary force on everything around it, whether it was living creatures or plants. Everything was brought to the same state, that is, I repeat, solidified.
Then I hurried back to the tent to join Michel, my husband. At the time, I found no connection between the creature and the round phosphorescent shape seen in the Parking lot. The next day, I began to realize that there was a correlation between them. After this brief but vivid vision, we fell asleep .
The next morning we didn't want to talk about it, but eventually we asked the residents of nearby villas if they had seen anything abnormal. We were faced with a complete misunderstanding. Everyone remained locked in their prejudices.
They tried to rationalize the situation by telling us: "What you saw was actually fine gravel shining in the night, or the lights of passing motorcycles."
I was sure it had nothing to do with what I saw! However, the lady thought about it.
She told us: "Wait, really, at 02: 30 in the morning I heard people walking on their terrace."
Her house was thirty meters from our tent, just below it. But this man did not go to this famous predator. She fell asleep again. Others remained skeptical. We hit the walls.
It so happened that the reporter Jean-Paul Guguin managed to find this pair of professors, and they were invited to the show two years after they saw it. When they didn't hear what the student had recorded two years ago, they started talking about the event again, answering questions from Jean-Paul Huguenot.
The lady said:
"The tent was behind me. I heard footsteps, and I thought my husband had gone into the tent. I turn a quarter turn to the left and there, on the same terrace as the tent, I see something within about five meters.
In fact, I can't say anything because I got the impression that there is life in it. I saw someone or something looking at me, or at least facing me and not moving. Imagine a piece of sugar that you paint over with black, then you put a pretty oval head on top. The whole is not shiny, matte black. In place of the eyes are two very large white disks. And all. No mouth, no nose, no hands. I couldn't tell if it had legs, because the tall, wild grasses rose quite high. Its height was about 1 meter 20 cm.
"Did you get the impression that he was looking at you?"
"I don't mean that he was looking at me, because he wasn't looking at me. Just a head turned toward me, but very still. I got the impression that something had happened. This nature has ceased to live.
"How long have you been looking at this humanoid?"
"It lasted barely fifteen seconds. I was scared: I rushed into the tent and made a huge jump.
Then Jean-Paul Huguenot listens to her husband:
"I was lying in a tent. Suddenly I saw my wife run in with a huge jump. She said to me, " I just saw something terrible, terrible!" I didn't know what she saw, but I knew she'd just seen something unusual.
"Why didn't you come out?"
Her face was contorted with fear. I didn't have the courage to get out of here. I closed the tent from the inside. We waited and listened.
The wife continues:
"When I realized that it was a small humanoid that I saw, I didn't want to go outside, because I read that the movements that we can make can be poorly interpreted by them.
- If I understand correctly, your actions were already conditioned by some knowledge?
"No, I didn't immediately think of an extraterrestrial being or a flying saucer. At first I was very scared and remained in shock for ten minutes. It was only then that I started thinking and made the connection between the round luminescent shape I saw below in the Park
"The next morning, did you feel curious about going to check for possible footprints?"
- Yes. We've arranged the locations. First, grass was pressed down next to the tent. But it didn't matter, because people might well have left these footprints. Below, in the Parking lot, we searched for footprints: in vain.
Her husband continues:
"When we were telling our story the next day, a man who lived fifty meters away remembered that at 02:30 that night, she heard footsteps on her terrace. She almost stood up, thinking it was a tramp. Finally, she fell asleep again.
Jean-Paul Huguin asks the lady:
"If you see a humanoid again tomorrow, will you push the experience any further?" Would you try to make contact?
"On my side, of course.
"Without any fear?"
"No fear this time. Let's just say that maybe if it had been in the same circumstances, at night, I would have had the same reaction of fright. But if it had been all day, and if I had seen him fly out of the saucer and approach me much less violently and suddenly, I would have pushed the meeting further out of curiosity.
- Do you think the discovery of these creatures will bring something to science?
- I don't think it brings anything to science, but to each of us. This allows us to have a more open mind, expand our horizons and our way of life. You should consider that it is possible that there are other life forms in the Universe besides us.
Original news
A woman, professor of French, and her husband, professor of music, were camping in the south of France in Saint-Jean-Du-Gard when she experienced a close encounter of the third kind.
A part from the fact that they asked in their vicinity if someone else had seen something, they talked about their experience only to one friend, a student. This student had been interested in the phenomenon UFO for a few years, and the couple knew that he at least would have an opened mind about this matter and would listen to them without scoffing. The student did better than that; he recorded their account on magnetic tape.
Two years later, an investigation of Jean-Paul Guguen, of the French national Tv and radio O.R.T.F. in Poitiers, resulted in the discovery of this recording which the student had kept at the bottom of a drawer, among his personal file, and it was then broadcast on February 27, 1974 to 20:30 in the show “Pas de Panique” (“Don’t Panic”), of Claude Villiers, Olivier Nanteau and Monique Desbarbat, on the main national radio channel France-Inter.
Here is the transcription of what the French professor woman recorded on this tape:
“What I saw happened in Saint-Jean-du-Gard, Wednesday, August 9, 1972, around 02:30 in the morning. We had returned rather late that night and camped at friends’ who had a garden in terrace. This garden is on the road to Nimes, at the exit of Saint-Jean-du-Gard. We were on one of the hills bordering the valley. I went outside around 02:30 in the morning because I heard the noises of the party in Saint-Jean-du-Gard.”
“Above the city I distinguished a rather sharp gleam, produced by the lights of the festival. But, on our side, the sky remained dark. There were large clouds and absolutely no light. All was extinct in the pathways which dominated over the hill. Thus, I was taking some fresh air when my glance was attracted to a sort of white ball, the size of a FIAT Isotta. It puzzled me: it was very shiny. I did not understand how this car could be so shiny whereas all was dark around there and that there was not one light on. This car was parked in small car-park reserved to the residents of the three or four villas built on the hill.”
“I was observing this car, phosphorescent, while trying to understand why it was so luminous, when I heard footsteps behind me. Odd footsteps, not too close one of another, not too heavy either, as if a child had pressed dry grasses while progressing rather regularly and slowly. Having heard these steps, I turned myself towards the left: at three or four meters, a shape was turned towards me. I do not want to say “a being was looking at me”, because, at the time, I did not feel this impression.”
“This shape measured approximately a meter twenty of height. It was completely black. A curious fact, was that this body was of parallelepiped typed. It seemed to me, that this form was made out of wood from thirty to forty centimetres thickness. This parallelepiped was topped by an ovoid shape in the place of the head. Two white rounds at the level of the eyes, two white rounds of five centimetres in diameter were the only things which were apparent on this black mass, turned towards me, motionless. I saw neither the feet nor the legs, let’s say, what was to be used by it to walk, because the tall grass hid them.”
“I will never forget the impression I felt: a morbid fear, incredible, not natural. It did not come from me; it seemed emitted by the shape I’ve seen, as if it wanted to neutralize me. I had never felt that before. I had this feeling during three seconds approximately, the time that my vision lasted. Nature appeared dead, like frozen, around this “thing”. One had the impression that this being exerted an extraordinary power on all that surrounded it, whether animated being or plants. All was reduced to the same state, i.e. solidified, I repeat.”
“Then, I returned in a rush in the tent to join Michel, my husband. At the time, I had not made a connection between this being and the round phosphorescent shaped seen on the car-park. The next day, I started to understand that there was a relationship between the two. After this short, but powerful vision, we slept.”
“The next day in the morning, we did not want to speak about it but finally we asked to the residents of nearby villas if they had not seen anything abnormal. We encountered a total incomprehension. All remained locked up in their prejudices. They tried to rationalize by telling us: “What you saw, was in fact small gravels shining in the night or the lights of motor cycles which passed.” I was sure that that did not have anything to do with what I saw! However, a lady thought about it. She told us: “Hold on, it is true, at 02:30 in the morning, I heard walking on my terrace.” Her house was located at thirty meters of our tent, a little lower. But this person did not go out to see this famous prowler. She fell asleep again. The others remained skeptic. We ran up against walls.”
It happened that the reporter, Jean-Paul Guguen, managed to locate this couple of professors, and they were invited to the show, two years after the sighting. Without having heard what was on the tape recorded two years ago by the student, they spoke about the event again, answering Jean-Paul Guguen’s questions. The lady said:
” – The tent was behind me. I heard footsteps and I believed that my husband had left or moved inside the tent. I turn myself of a quarter of turn to the left, and there, on the same terrace that the tent, I see within approximately five meters, something. In fact, I cannot say something because I had the impression that there was life in this. I saw somebody or something who looked at me, or at least which was turned towards me and did not move. Imagine a piece of sugar which you paint in black; you put a rather oval head on the top. The whole not shining, mate black. At the place of the eyes, two white, very large discs. And that is all. No mouth, no nose, no arms. I could not see whether it had legs because tall wild grasses rose rather high. It measured about 1 meter 20 of height.”
” – Did you Have the impression that it stared at you?”
” – I do not want to say that it stared at me, because there was no glance. There was simply a head turned towards me, but with a very frozen attitude. I had the impression that something occurred. That nature had stopped living.”
” – How much time did you look at this humanoid?”
” – It hardly lasted fifteen seconds. I was afraid: I rushed inside the tent and I made an enormous jump.”
Jean-Paul Guguen then listens to the husband:
” – I was laying in the tent; all of a sudden I saw my wife rush in, with an enormous jump. She said to me: “I have just seen something terrible, dreadful! “I did not understand what she had seen but I understood that she had just seen something out of the ordinary.”
” – Why didn’t you get out?”
” – Her face was literally deformed by the fear. I couldn’t find the courage to get out. I closed the tent from the inside. We waited while listening.”
The wife continues:
” – When I understood that it was a small humanoid I’ve been seeing, I did not want to go out for I had read that movements of fright we may make could be badly interpreted by them.”
” – If I follow you correctly, you were already conditioned by your readings?”
” – No, I did not think of an extraterrestrial being or a flying saucer immediately. I was initially very afraid and I remained under the shock of fright during ten minutes. Only after that I started to think and I established the link between the round luminousshape seen lower in the cark park.”
” – The following day morning, did you feel a curiosity to go check for possible traces?”
” – Yes. We located the places. First, close to the tent there was pressed grass. But it was not significant, because people could very well have printed these traces. Lower, on car park, we sought traces: in vain.”
Her husband continues:
” – When we told our history, the next day, a person which lived within fifty meters of us remembered that this night, at 02:30 in the morning, she had heard footsteps on her terrace. She almost stood up, thinking that it was a prowler. Finally, she had fallen asleep again.”
Jean-Paul Guguen asks the lady:
” – If, tomorrow, you see a humanoid again, would you push the experience further? Would try to establish a contact?”
” – For my part, certainly.”
” – Without any fear?”
” – This time without fear. Let’s say all the same that perhaps that if it were in the same circumstances, in the night, I would have the same reactions of fright. But if it were in full day and if I saw it coming out of a saucer and coming towards me in a way much more brutal and sudden, I would push the meeting further, by curiosity.”
” – Do you think that the discovery of these beings brings something to science?”
” – I do not think that it brings something to science, but rather to each one of us. That enables us to have a more opened mind, to widen our horizon and way of life. You need to consider that it is totally possible that there are other life forms than us in the universe.”
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