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152 REVELATIONS into debt. His radio station was unsuccessful and he never rallied around him the thousands of believers who have pushed other UFO luminaries like Vorilhon, the notorious French contactee who calls himself "Rael," to the head of a major international cult with affluent resources. For the three protagonists, life took its course after the Pontoise affair. Subsequent events passed largely unnoticed, even among French ufologists, who were too busy trying to make sense of the transcendent revelations of UMMO, or translating the latest American gossip about Majestic 12 and the crashed saucers at the Pentagon, to seriously inves- tigate what was happening under their own noses. In late November 1981 Franck's mother died in a massive car crash. Separated from Mamina and his young son, Franck went on welfare and became very bitter about the whole affair. Prevost's girlfriend, Corinne, vanished and has never been seen again. In the summer of 1982 the principal in the affair, Franck Fontaine, was arrested in La Baule. He was charged and convicted of being an accomplice in various thefts committed against female tourists. He was released for health reasons in December 1982. When I interviewed him in Pontoise in May 1989, Franck had recovered from these episodes. He appeared relaxed, and stated again that the UFO event had happened as he had originally described it: something or someone had indeed abducted him. He is inclined to think he and his companions had been targeted a long time before. The fact that Salomon was black would discourage a political exploitation of the story. He is certain he was never in contact with any humanoids during the week of his disappearance, and he now regards the contact with Haurrio as a pure fabrication engineered by Prevost and Jimmy Guieu. But the whole event is still a mystery to him.