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to four feet tall, dressed in white, tight-fitting clothes, enter the dark bedroom. He assumed it was his small daughter going in to talk to her mother, who was in the room with his sons. About ten minutes later he saw something like a "bar of light," which appeared to crumble. He got up and went to the room, where he found his wife and the boys, who had also seen the bar of light. He did not see the person in white leave, and his wife stated that their daughter had not been in the room at any time. There was no physical evidence to substantiate the presence of the small person in the house. On the island of Aramore, a man named Old Patsy, whom we met in Chapter Two, told Walter Evans-Wentz a "true story about the fairies": Twenty years or so ago around the Bedd of Dermot and Grania, just above us on the hill, there were seen many fairies, crowds of them and a single deer. They began to chase the deer, and followed it right across the island. At another time similar little people chased a horse. The rocks were full of them, and they were small fellows. My mother used to tell about seeing the "fair-folk" dancing in the fields near Cardigan; and other people have seen them around the Cromlech up there on the hill. They appeared as little children in clothes like soldiers' clothes and with red caps, according to some accounts. Now, since we are getting to the central idea of this book, I will quote two more stories, both of them "landing" reports from the richest period in UFO history in terms of number of landings reported: autumn 1954. Both stories come from France. The first case took place on October 9. Four children living in Pournoy-la-Chetive, Moselle, reported that at about 6:30 P.M., as they were roller-skating, they suddenly saw something luminous It was a round machine, about 2.5 meters in diameter, which was standing on three legs. Soon a man came out. He was holding a lighted flashlight in his hand and it blinded us. But we could see that he had large eyes, a face covered with hair and that he was very small, about four feet tall. He was dressed in a sort of black sack like the cassock M. le Curé wears. He looked at us and said something we did not understand. He turned off the flashlight. We became afraid and ran away. When we looked back we saw something in the sky: it was very high, very bright and flew fast. The second case is a classic. It happened on Sunday, September 26, in Chabeuil, Drome. At about 2:30 P.M. Mrs. Leboeuf was gathering blackberries along a hedge when: The dog began to bark and then started howling miserably. She looked around and saw the little animal standing at the edge of a wheat field, in front of something that she thought at first was a scarecrow, but going closer, she saw that the "scarecrow" was some kind of small diving suit, made of translucent plastic material, three feet tall or a little taller, with a head that was also translucent — and suddenly she realized that inside the diving suit was a Thing, and that behind the blurred transparency of the "helmet" two eyes were looking at her; at least she had the impression of eyes, but they seemed larger than human eyes. As she realized this, the diving suit began to move toward her, with a kind of quick, waddling gait. The Rocks Were Full of Them Another person told Evans-Wentz: near the cemetery: