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with him. 132 REVELATIONS reporter Iris, various friends, and two UFO amateurs, was dominated by Prevost's personality. Salomon only spoke to express his profound mistrust for anything of a scientific nature. However, he was very impressed by the hypnosis demonstrations he had seen earlier that day, during various sessions with private UFO groups. He was especially astonished by the posthypnotic suggestions that prevented a subject from getting up or from smoking. When the scientists pointed out that such dependence on the hypnotist cast a serious doubt over the revela- tions, since such recall could easily be influenced by the hypnotist himself, the logic of the argument was completely lost on Salomon. Prevost identified the GEPAN with the gendarmerie and he proudly stated again that he was an anarchist. He also expressed contempt for the American journalists (from the National Enquirer) who had al- legedly tried to bribe them by offering $1000 to each of the witnesses. About 11:00 P.M. Franck arrived, very disturbed. He had just hit a pedestrian, an elderly woman. It turned out there was no insurance on the Ford station wagon. The discussion continued with Franck taking the lead and expressing the thought that "everything had meaning, nothing was due to chance." He mentioned that he had had some experiences with drugs in the past. He had seen the movie Close Encounters but "did not like it." He did not believe in mere UFO observations, he said, only in close encounters and abductions. Franck refused to discuss the events of the previous week in the absence of guarantees that the information would not be used against him by the police. However, he did mention that he remembered some things "in his head." When he "woke up" in the cabbage field he first "thought he had been dreaming." He had relived some parts of his experience in his sleep the previous night. He mentioned certain beings that he designated as they, or someone, who communicated nonverbally Franck had the feeling these beings knew everything and could see through the walls. Where he had gone, "there was no time, and no limits." The experience had nothing to do with being drunk or high, two states in which "you remain yourself." It was like a dream, neither