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it had been hovering there was now a blue-green "football" that flew away at 6:05 A.M. Jeans reported the sighting to the French police. My wife and I investigated this sighting during a research trip through the west of France in December 1973. Many strange data came to the surface. First we found that this was not the first sighting. Two months earlier, the young man had seen three yellow spheres in staggered formation over the same beach while driving with his brother-in-law. That sighting took place about 7:00 P.M., and the spheres appeared to be about twelve to fifteen feet above ground. "What was the pattern of the lights?" we asked Noel Jean. "There was a yellow light, a second one above, a third one to the left above again, and some metal in between." "The lights came on and off and it followed the car." "And you, what did you do?" "We stopped to look at it, and when we got back into the car the lights were turned off on the object." Since the second sighting the elder man has decided not to go out of his house anymore. He no longer goes fishing. He locks himself in his room when the investigators come to ask him questions. Does he know something he does not want to discuss? We saw no traces on the beach. The gendarmes confirmed to us that the grass in the dunes had not been affected. The barbed wire nearby was checked for magnetic effects. The test was negative. We heard that a local ham radio amateur had noticed at the time of the near landing that his reciever yy o4 4 Le 1 "The papers have said that it measured 1.5 by 1.5 meters," we pointed out. "That's not true. It was rectangular, about 2.5 by 1.5 meters. It was as big as a stove!" WAT Laat Ata ta aan "We got there at 5:30. It disappeared between 5:50 and 6:05." "What happened when the object disappeared?" "We went away looking at the rectangular light all the time, and it turned toward the dunes, then came back on us. It was turned off, and then we saw a small blue-green ball above the spot. It got 1" ton tan a " smaller, and after six we couldn't see anything anymore." "How big was the ball?" "It was like a soccer ball." "What did you do when you got on the beach and saw the rectangle of light?" "I started going toward it, but it got brighter and brighter. So my father said, 'Forget it, come back to this side." There is a large radar installation near Cherbourg, at a place called Mauperthuis, located thirty-eight kilometers away from Carteret. The range of the antenna is two hundred kilometers. At 6:10 A.M. on that particular morning it picked up an echo in the southwest, moving to the north of Cherbourg. An object flying from the direction of Carteret toward Great Britain would have followed this course. The same morning something peculiar happened on the coast. The French trawler Archipel, which was close to the rocky shore of Urville directly west of Cherbourg (on the trajectory the object must have followed if the radar echo corresponds to the UFO), went off course. In view of the frequently observed magnetic perturbations in the vicinity of a UFO, it can be hypothesized that its magnetic navigation system gave erroneous indications. The boat got too close to the coast, hit the rocks, and sank, fortunately without loss of life. The observation of the yellow "window" on the beach had lasted no less than five minutes. Why had the two fishermen not walked closer to the object to ascertain its nature? There seems to be two reasons: first, the "window" became brighter as they walked within 150 yards, and this discouraged them from approaching any closer; and, second, they felt "paralyzed with fear." Whether this paralysis was an actual physiological inhibition or the result of psychological fear — or both — has not been ascertained. "What was it doing?" was blocked out for several minutes. "It was in the middle of the nets," Noel Jean told us. "What time did it end?"