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STRIP TEASE THE 95 professional scientists undertook their own investigations, starting from the photographs. PHOTOGRAPHS At the time when Ribera and Farriols were getting immersed in the perfect case, an important space project was getting under way in Toulouse, France. It had to do with the preparations for the launch of a surveillance device to be known as SPOT (French for Satellite for the Observation of the Earth). This spacecraft, which would eventually be sent into orbit from French Guiana just in time to show the world the details of the damaged nuclear plant at Chernobyl in 1986, was still in the design phase when the San Jose de Valderas pictures were taken, but an aggressive development program was already moving forward for the reduction of the images on a digital computer and for their enhance- ment by various sophisticated software techniques. It is to this state-of-the-art research facility that the Spanish UFO pictures were submitted by Dr. Claude Poher, an aerospace expert who was also the founder of the French government's aerial phenomena study group known as GEPAN. Claude Poher cited four reasons that justified spending time to analyze the photographs sent to him by Ribera: (1) the object and the landscape had been photographed at the same time, judging by the light angles; (2) the light was also consistent with the sun angles for that date and time; (3) the duration of the sighting was consistent with the timing of the pictures: seven photographs were available out of a total of thirteen, numbered twelve to twenty-four; and (4) the altitudes and positions checked out against the descriptions given by the witnesses. Equipped with microscopes, computers, and densitometers, the French team started taking apart the photographic information from San Jose de Valderas. Surprising results began to emerge. The first surprise that came from the work of the Toulouse experts had to do with the two alleged photographers. It turned out all the pictures were from the same source! There was, in fact, only one author