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136 REVELATIONS of a new Messiah, meditated in the cabbage field, or chanted mantras in Prevost's kitchen, there were also some dedicated investigators among those who interviewed him. Perhaps the most active and articu- late was the IMSA Group headed by Jimmy Guieu—a popular and prolific French science-fiction writer—and hypnotist Daniel Huguet, who often performs on the stage under the name Dany Franck. IMSA (which stands for World Institute of Advanced Sciences) is based on the Cote d'Azur, with its secretariat in Toulon. It has reached a firm conclusion about the UFO phenomenon, expressed by one of its leaders in Guieu's book Contacts OVNICergy-Pontoise (Paris: Editions du Rocher, 1980). It is "a certainty," he writes, "that these objects are in reality extraterrestrial craft built by a thinking species coming from other worlds." As early as Wednesday, November 28, 1979, Jimmy Guieu was quoted in a Marseille newspaper as stating flatly, about Franck Fon- taine's abduction: "I believe it." A short time prior to these events, on November 7, 1979, IMSA had studied another abduction case labeled Gamma-Delta, which had been reported to them by a doctor. The witness, who was driving on a lonely stretch between two villages, had been stopped at 8:30 P.M. by a strange light next to a forest. He vaguely recalled walking toward four trees that somehow turned into a staircase leading to an oval object emitting an extraordinary multicolored light. He woke up a short time later, in his car, twenty miles away. His back was painful and his neck was stiff. At the request of IMSA, this man had been hypnotized by Huguet on November 11. Under hypnosis he had recalled many more details. The light was a dome, the tree trunks were beings who explained their language and signs to him. And he had flown aboard the strange dome. Under trance, Gamma-Delta also made a remarkable prediction: a major UFO event would happen in France on November 26. Indeed, it was to be the date of Franck's disappearance. Thus, IMSA was well-prepared to deal with the case. As soon as the news of Franck's return was flashed on the radio, Guieu called Com- mandant Courcoux in Pontoise and drove to the scene with Daniel Huguet. They arrived at the gendarmarie at 9:00 A.M. on Tuesday,