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was the only one who could see the Lady, those who accompanied her and watched her in trance experienced unquestioned miracles. Between March 5 and March 25, 1858, a series of miraculous cures took place at the grotto near Lourdes. Paralytics threw aside their crutches after drinking the water from that spring. The following year, 1859, the UFOs were busy again. And the year after that there was another outbreak of poltergeist cases in France and Switzerland. Forgetting the worldwide situation for the moment, we can draw some interesting conclusions from these French cases. Two ‘“‘miracles”’ oc- curred in France within twelve years of each other. The incident at La Salette in 1846 was definitely ufological in nature. The events at Lourdes were more subtle and fit more into the ‘‘possessed”’ type of phenomenon. The simultaneous outbreak of poltergeist manifestations in France throughout that period, together with all kinds of aerial and meteorologi- cal phenomena (see Fort’s Book of the Damned for listings of these reports), tends to confirm the thesis that all of these things are interrelated. When and if French investigators burrow into the newspapers and journals of this period, they will undoubtedly uncover many other lost reports that will add to this evidence. On September 1, 1965, hundreds of citizens in the Kosice district of Czechoslovakia complained to their commissars about the glowing red and black spheres that were buzzing their towns and villages. A Reuters dispatch from Prague added that this was “‘the most recent of a series of artifacts of unknown origin which have been seen in the Czechoslovakian skies in recent months...’’ The Iron Curtain had sprung a leak, and U-2s from another world were pouring through. Two days later, on September 3, 1965, four metallic blue “‘plates’’ swooped out of the sky over the town of Cuzco, in southwest Peru. Hundreds of people, alerted by radio newscasts, went into the streets to stare at the strange formation. The objects entertained them for two hours, performing intricate maneuvers above the town. They made right-angle turns, hovered and skittered about in a manner impossible for any known type of aircraft. When they finally got bored with their audience, they sped away at incredible speed. Others were seeing lights in the sky that same night and weren’t quite so entertained by them as the citizens of Cuzco. Officer Eugene Bertrand of Exeter, New Hampshire, on a routine patrol, came across a trembling A Sure Cure for Alligator Bites / 225 The Curative Powers of UFOs