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Purple Justice nyone who has watched the most popular television talk shows in the last few years knows that the question of abductions has become the central issue in American ufology. 122 According to the abduction specialists, the "missing time" experi- ence of the witnesses who have encountered alien beings and have been taken inside their craft should be investigated through hypnosis, which provides the most complete and accurate picture of the behavior of our extraterrestrial visitors. Most of these specialists, like Budd Hopkins and historian David Jacobs, vehemently reject any suggestion that part of the experience should be read at the symbolic level, like a play, a dream, or a movie. Instead they accept it at the literal level of a scientific extraterrestrial mission. If they are right, then a case in France in 1979 is the ultimate abduction event, the final proof that we have in fact been visited by aliens from elsewhere. In this instance two witnesses observed balls of light that enveloped a car while the driver, their friend Franck Fon- taine, simply disappeared. They reported the event to the police, who