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BY 135 PURPLE JUSTICE The blood analysis performed on the samples drawn from Franck gave perfectly normal results. In particular, the cortisone level in the blood, which plays the role of internal clock and follows the rhythm of sleep and wakefulness, did not indicate any disturbance. This level is altered by the jet lag well-known to airplane travelers. It can be multi- plied by 10 to 100 when the subject is in a weightless environment, such as space travel, or during a period of intense stress. With a cortisone level of 15 micrograms per milliliter of blood, Franck exhibited no unusual effect. It would have been interesting to compare these levels with those in the blood collected on the previous day during the gendarmerie interro- gation. Unfortunately, the samples had been poorly preserved and did not reach Paris in a state that would have made analysis possible. Regrettably, no attempt was made to detect traces of drugs either in the blood or in the urine. Finally, GEPAN analyzed the behavior and the discourse of the various protagonists. It came to the conclusion that they had already been contaminated so heavily by the statements of various ufological groups that their own views had been biased or polluted beyond re- trieval. Accordingly, concluded Esterle, the case is "totally lacking in interest in terms of a scientific study of the physical aspects of unidenti- fied aerospace phenomena." The reader of the report was left with the strong impression that the whole case was an outright hoax. INVESTIGATION UFO RESEARCHERS Several UFO groups had contacted Prevost and Salomon as soon as the news of Franck's disappearance had been reported on the radio, and they crowded around him when he came back. In fact, while the GEPAN investigators were kept waiting at the door of the apartment, the young man was already undergoing hypnosis under the direction of one of these groups. While some of the believers greeted Franck's return like the coming