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direction. is to it." 147 PURPLE JUSTICE this fog. But this key observation is found neither in the police notes nor in the gendarmerie report. And GEPAN made no effort to inter- view the first officers who were on the scene only half an hour after Franck had vanished. The observation of the dense fog around the car made by this officer clearly confirms the statements of the three witnesses and the sighting by the girl called Lisette in the GEPAN report. Having noted these contradictions, we began looking in a completely new direction—one that neither the police, nor GEPAN, nor the ufolo- gists had considered: was it possible for the case to be a hoax in which the witnesses, or some of the witnesses, were telling the truth? Could Franck have been abducted, not by extraterrestrials, but by a sophis- ticated organization with its own ulterior motives? Several facts, which had either been neglected or swept under the rug, pointed in that I have already mentioned that GEPAN had uncovered an indepen- dent witness whom they called Remi, who drove to Purple Justice every Sunday night, arriving there about 4:30 A.M. He had provided the observation that Franck Fontaine was not alone when his car drove off the parking lot. An important question would naturally be: where was Remi the following Monday? And what did he see around the time of Franck's reappearance? The answer is that Remi was not there the following Monday. Why not? He was sick. "Listen," he told a scientist from GEPAN, "I lead a quiet life and I don't want any trouble with those people. 1 got sick and that's all there He has refused to say anything more. But this part of his testimony is not mentioned in the GEPAN report. Who are those people he refers to in such fear? He could hardly be afraid of retaliation from Franck Fontaine and his friends, who have never shown a propensity to vio- lence. Is another, more sinister group involved? Another curious fact concerns the layout of the two apartments occupied by the witnesses at Purple Justice. Francis Leuhan was in- trigued by the fact that a loose telephone wire half hidden by the carpet connected Prevost's flat to that occupied by Salomon. When he was