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dropped. 150 REVELATIONS "Certainly not. Their behavior under these conditions was one of the things we wanted to observe." "What was your own role?" "My interest in the affair is purely personal. It has no relationship to my position with the French Air Force." "Would it be correct to say that you deliberately created a major UFO event to find out if you could rely on the reactions and the investigative abilities of local law enforcement agencies?" asked the astonished researcher. "That would be a fair way to describe it." "What about GEPAN?" Mr. D shrugged. "We had the same reasons to find out how the scientific experts would react, naturally." "Were you also using the media? Did you have wider objectives?" "I cannot answer your question. But if this operation had been completed, the next phase would have been far worse." "Why are you telling me all this?" "I have my own reasons." "Aren't you afraid I will publish this interview?" "Anything you publish will simply be denied." The man got up to indicate that the interview had ended. But it would be fair to assume that the Cergy operation could have been a test, perhaps a prelude to an experiment of wider scope. My friends believe that someone intervened and that the second stage of the operation was If Mr. D was telling the truth, and the whole truth, then many unexplained points of the Purple Justice event do make sense. The fog could have been a theatrical device created artificially to mask a small commando from casual observers, long enough to carry Franck away. The fog could also have contained a chemical that served to induce the heavy sleep that overtook him in the car. We found an underpass that leads from the parking lot to a path that cuts across the fields. This passageway goes under the main road and would have provided an ideal staging area. We actually drove the length of it and into the parking area. From there Franck could easily have