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gated eyes. 1979 FRANCE, 123 PURPLE JUSTICE failed to find the missing man and escalated the search to a nationwide alert. Days went by and newspaper headlines became larger and larger, until seven days later Franck reappeared at the very same spot, without any awareness of the time lapse. Newspapers and television stations from California to the Soviet Union interviewed the young man, who was grilled by police investiga- tors and by a scientific team from the French Center for Space Studies, the only civilian organization officially instructed to bring the tools of science to the study of UFOs. Franck was hypnotized by UFO believ- ers, and he recalled the details of his abduction into a strange laboratory where he had a dialogue with two light spheres. Independently, under separate hypnosis, his friend Jean-Pierre Prevost recalled that he had had contact with an extraterrestrial with a large head and deep, elon- What makes the case of special interest is the fact that the police investigation, supported by a scientific team well-versed in UFO phe- nomena, had begun prior to the release of the principal by the alleged alien beings that had abducted him. PONTOISE, NOVEMBER Twenty-five miles northwest of Paris the old medieval city of Pontoise stares down at the Oise River from the top of a cliff once crowned by a formidable castle. The injuries of war and the passage of time have reduced it to the proportions of a country town, and more recently as a mere suburb of the exploding Paris metropolis. With the increasing population and the influx of black and North African immigrants has come the need for subsidized housing on cheap land. The planners and the technocrats in Paris looked at the map and decreed that the old provincial Pontoise, cradled in the Vallee des Peintres made famous by Van Gogh and the Impressionists, would become a model New Town with the addition of government-financed, multistory apartment buildings. They found the appropriate land on the Cergy plateau which extends beyond the railroad tracks, in a place