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experience the 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 de 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 that had landed in a field in Monteux, 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 frequently reported by witnesses of landings, as are 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 eves, and a very hairy chest, carried two "headlights," one below the other, on the front of his suit. Nine days later, in Fontenay-Torcy, also in France, a man and his wife reported that they saw a red cigar-shaped object in they 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 flight from another spot. A third group of independent witnesses in another town, Sanson-la-Poterie, saw the craft fly away west at tremendous speed. The countryside was illuminated over an area one to two miles wide. It is indeed appropriate to tell the investigator of such cases (in the words of Robert Herrick's "The Night-Piece of Julia"): Her eyes the Glow-worme lend thee, The Shooting Starres attend thee; And the Elves Also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee. reality. The UFO occupants, like the elves of old, are not extraterrestrials. They are the denizens of another