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134 REVELATIONS friends not to have seen Remi's car as he drove onto the first parking lot. His testimony, however, is incompatible with theirs since he had seen two people in the vehicle. Lisette, on the other hand, is a fourteen-year-old girl who lives near Purple Justice. Her bedroom window opens on the utility power station and the fields. She is often unable to sleep. On that particular night she went to the bathroom at 4:00 A.M. AS she stepped back into her bedroom she saw some lights in the sky. She went to the window and spent ten to fifteen minutes, she said, watching a luminous display at the level of the pylons and the electrical cables: It was blue, orange, red. It was very bright, very phosphorescent. I saw the colors clearly, very vivid ... it was circular. I just saw circles of several colors . . . that moved slowly, in zigzag fashion, from left to right, many times. She went to bed about 4:25 or 4:30 and fell asleep. Her description immediately suggests a corona discharge along the electric cables. However, it is unusual for such an effect to last so long near high-tension wires. The team turned its attention to the power system near Purple Justice. This particular electrical station is part of a regional ring that feeds a double network at 225,000 volts and 400,000 volts. It is equipped with an advanced system of automatic surveillance which trips whenever a voltage anomaly is detected. The system also summons two night guards. There were no such alerts between November 25 and mid- December. In particular, there was no alert on the morning of Monday, November 26, when Franck disappeared. Known luminous effects, such as power arcs, typically happen during thunderstorms or high humidity periods. On the morning of the event the temperature varied around 38 degrees Fahrenheit and humidity was near ninety percent, but there was no thunderstorm. What wind there was blew from the south at six mph. Contact with nearby airports disclosed that there was no aerial activ- ity in the vicinity of Cergy that night.