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WHEN FAILS wrote: 140 REVELATIONS PROPHECY Following the hypnosis session with Huguet and the attending revela- tions, life became increasingly strange for Prevost and Franck. They would regularly lapse into states where they no longer remembered their actions, meeting strange people who threatened them in the street, only to vanish in midair a short time later. Prevost became the star of the show. In subsequent months he published a book entitled The Great Contact with a foreword by Roger- Luc Mary, a parapsychologist and prominent I MSA member, who I am deeply convinced that this book will assemble a large number of human beings who will form ... a gathering of love spread over the planet which is destined to become A NEW EARTH. In his book, which quoted many great thinkers from Jesus to Einstein (and Haurrio, naturally), Prevost called for his readers to subscribe to his new magazine to be published in Toulon. Unfortunately, the date of August 15, 1980, which had been an- nounced by the extraterrestrials as the propitious beginning of the Great Contact, came and went without any unusual manifestation. Hundreds of believers who had gathered in the Cergy cabbage field went away empty-handed. The press was there, naturally, and in a joking mood. Photographs of the forlorn believers published the next day helped convince the French public that the. incident was indeed a hoax, as GEPAN itself had already concluded. The Pontoise case was thoroughly misunderstood and muddled in the United States, where private researchers and press people unfamil- iar with the social and psychological background of the witnesses spread the most curious rumors. Thus, I received alarmed letters from ufolo- gists who had heard that the French government had threatened to kill Franck "if he revealed the truth about UFOs!" Kevin Michel Cape, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, wrote from Paris: