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heard). The light flashes continued, coming from the western part of the wide landscape that can be seen from the south of the house, which is built on the side of a hill. Opening a large window that leads onto the terrance, the witness first observed the objects. There were two of them, disk-shaped, horizontal, silvery-white on top and bright red underneath. Other details of the objects that the doctor was later able to recall include horizontal "antennae" and a vertical antennae on top, while a perfectly cylindrical beam of white light illuminated the mist under the disks. The flashes, which occurred with a periodicity of about one second, were marked by a brief increase in the luminosity of both disks, followed by a sudden burst of light between them. The objects were moving in unison toward the left — that is, toward the center of the doctor's field of view — and they were coming closer, their apparent size increasing while the object that seemed farthest away came to align itself with the closer one. While they were still approaching (following the trajectory of the beams on the ground enabled the witness to ascertain that they were indeed coming closer), these two disks went through a remarkable transformation: their "antennae" came into contact, the two beams interpenetrated, the flashing activity stopped, and the two craft merged. There was now a single disk, directly facing the window and still coming nearer, with a single beam of white light underneath. After a time (the witness is unable to recall how long), the disk began flipping from a horizontal to a vertical position, until it was seen as a circle standing on edge. The shaft of light, which had been drawn by the rotation into a sweeping movement toward the house, came to illuminate the entire front and shone straight into the doctor's face. At that instant a bang was heard and the disk went away, leaving behind a whitish glow which was slowly blown away by a o4 the wind. After these events, the witness wrote a detailed account of his sighting, with sketches. He awoke his wife and told her what had happened. At that point it was she who observed, with considerable amazement, that the swelling and pain in his leg had completely disappeared. In the days that followed, he became aware that all the after-effects of a wound he had recieved during the Algerian war had also dissipated. French science writer Aime Michel, a researcher with the French radio and television organization, visited the witness on November 8, six days after the sighting, and found him tired; he had lost weight since the observation and was very distressed by what had happened to him. That same day he experienced cramps and pains in the abdomen, and a red pigmentation appeared around the navel, forming a triangle. By November 17 this seemingly preposterous phenomenon was well developed. Examinations by a dermatologist led to negative results, but the specialist was so intrigued by this triangular pigmentation without a cause that he decided to document it as a report to the French Academy of Medicine. The witness — who had not told the specialist that everything had started with his observation of a UFO — requested that on the contrary he given the phenomenon no publicity. During the night of November 13-14, the doctor had had a dream in which a triangular pattern was seen connected with a flying disk. The same triangle appeared on the baby's stomach a day or so after the witness's examination. The psychosomatic explanation first proposed by Aime Michel had to be discarded. When the investigator (who kept the witness under close observation) published the results of his two-year follow-up of the case, he noted that there had been no recurrence of either the war sequelae or the wound on the leg. The peculiar triangle, however, continued to come and go on both the father and the son, and would stay visible for two or three days at a time, even when the child was away and staying with his grandmother, who knew nothing of the sighting and was very much alarmed when she saw the triangular pigmentation. The recurrence of the triangle was observed every year and was again recorded on film in 1986. Like the grandmother, friends of the family still know nothing, but they have noted a change in the mental attitudes of the doctor and his wife: they seem to have acquired an almost mystical acceptance of the events of life and death, which is puzzling to those who had known them previously. Finally, there is the matter of the paranormal phenomena that now take place around them. Coincidences of a telepathic nature are frequently reported, and the doctor has allegedly, on at