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much as twenty hours a day, and in spite of his parents' advice, he didn't want to consult a doctor. He simply couldn't stay on his feet when exhaustion hit him, and this went on for about two months. Something else happened to him in connection with his sleeping pattern: in the early morning hours, between 4:00 and 5:00 A.M. It seemed to him that he was "floating off". His mind would be alert, although his body was paralyzed, and he would feel his consciousness leaving his body. In later conversations with the investigators, I learned of changes in the witness's behavior and belief system. He surprised everyone in this remote area of France by recommending to young people that they study astronomy and science in general with great care. And, in a private discussion with one of the researchers who have for several years followed up this remarkable case, he casually mentioned that he might soon have to write a book. It was pointed out to him that he could hardly write even the most simple letter. "They told me not to worry about that," he said. "When the time ir right, I will know what to put on paper." We are touching here the very essence of prophecy. They told him.... But who are they? It seems that, in recurrent dreams since the incident with the flying disk, he has seen a number of men dressed in red and each holding a book and pointing at it. Nothing else happens in the dream. Just a tad 1 More recently, he has traveled over two hundred miles to visit the investigator of this case, who had left precise instructions to keep him closely informed of any new and important development. When he was in the investigator's house, he did have something important to say, but he could not talk. The part of his brain that handled verbal expression and the mechanism of language could not a rt rr ee! a On the evening of November 2, 1971, on the Johnson farm located near Delphos, Kansas, an unknown object was reported to have come down almost to ground level and to have then taken off. It was seen by a young man and later by his parents, and it would simply have gone into the annals of ufology as one of many thousands of landings if it had not been for several secondary effects the objects created: it affected animals; it left peculiar traces on the ground; and, as in the French case of Aveyron, it affected the witness's sleeping pattern. Here again the young son of the farmer is the main witness. Sixteen-year-old Ronald Johnson was tending the sheep, accompanied by his dog, when the sighting happened. What he suddenly saw was a mushroom-shaped object, illuminated by multicolored lights over its entire surface and hovering twenty-five yards away, within two feet of the ground. Its diameter was about nine feet. The glow from the object was such that Ronald could see no details, and it was making a sound like "an old washing machine which vibrates." Then it brightened at the base and took off. The witness reportedly became temporarily blind. During all this the dog was "very quiet." After several minutes, Ronald, regaining his sight, ran into the house to call his parents, and all came out again to see the object, now high in the sky and over half the full moon in size. It vanished into the distance. The three witnesses went around the house to the site of the near landing and were 1.4 toauoo4 1 a anu oe surprised, they said, to observe a glowing ring on the ground. Parts of nearby trees were also glowing. The texture of the soil, reports an experienced investigator, Mr. Ted Phillips, "felt strange, like a slick crust, as if the soil was crystallized." And Mrs. Johnson noticed that her fingers went numb, as if a local anesthetic had been applied. She is a nurse at a nearby hospital, and for two weeks this condition prevented her from taking the pulse of her patients. The next day the ring was still clearly visible, with a dry and "crusty" appearance. The inside and the outside of the ring were damp from recent rains, but the ring itself was perfectly dry! Thirty-two days later, when Ted Phillips was able to go to the scene, snow had fallen and was melting both outside and inside the ring, but the one-foot-wide ring was perfectly white. the men and the book. process the data that he knew were there. The Delphos Case We removed snow from one section of the ring and introduced water into the exposed ring