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a ufo abduction in sergie pontois by

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charles lear on november 26 1979 police

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in the french agglomeration community of

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sergie pontois received a strange

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missing person report from two

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distressed young men according to

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jean-pierre prevost and solomon and d.a

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their friend frank fontaine disappeared

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after a ball of light that was

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accompanied by three or four luminous

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spheres engulfed the car he was in this

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resulted in not only an investigation by

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the police but also geppin group de tu

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de phenamin era especial non identifier

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the unit of cnes santra nacional de

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tudspacial tasked with dealing with ufo

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reports according to an article on the

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case titled le faire de sergi pantois

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posted on rro.org small r small r

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capital o fontaine 18 prevost and nda

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both 25 were loading a ford station

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wagon with jeans they were going to try

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and sell at keysore's market they saw a

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light heading towards the ground at a

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not too fast speed fontaine drove

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towards where he thought it might have

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made impact after telling the other two

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men to meet him there prevost and india

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went back to their nearby apartments in

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d.a to get a camera and prevost to get

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another load of jeans unable to find

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film and d.a joined prevost and the two

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headed for the car at 200 meters away

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they saw the car surrounded by a milky

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halo of light around four meters in

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diameter with three or four luminous

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spheres nearby the light went up into

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the sky and the men approached the car

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when they got there they saw that the

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door was open the engine was stalled and

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the car was in gear fontaine was nowhere

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to be seen according to an article

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titled the sergey pontois ufo case

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posted on the vice magazine website the

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light was seen over a power station and

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the car was parked in a nearby cabbage

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field when fontan disappeared sergi

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pantois police commander curcus was in

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charge of the case and although he told

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journalists he was skeptical he ordered

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a thorough search of the area the car

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was still parked in the same spot the

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officers did a search and found no sign

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of fontan they went as far as to sweep

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the area with a geiger counter and

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checked with nearby military radar

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stations but found nothing unusual eight

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days later the police got the news from

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a radio program that fontan had

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reappeared according to the report

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fontan was at home after waking up in

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the cabbage field with no idea that

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eight days had passed he was wearing the

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same clothes with no trace of mud and

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had the same amount of money on him 100

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francs as when he disappeared the

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station had gotten the news from an

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anonymous caller and sometime later in

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d.a admitted that it had been he fonten

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was questioned by the pontois

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prosecutor's office he claimed to have

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remembered nothing after seeing the

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luminous ball surround the car the men

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began speaking to journalists fontan

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said he was abducted by

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extraterrestrials that he hadn't said

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everything and described to stay with

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the little green men as pleasant kevin

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asked fonten to come to their facility

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for tests but he refused he said at a

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press conference i don't remember

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anything until i have a guarantee from

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the state that i won't be locked up the

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case attracted a large number of

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journalists and also got the attention

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of claude vorion founder of the

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international raelian movement and the

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men were moved to remain cloistered at

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home henry renee gere a writer with a

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pen named jimmy kia contacted the men

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and arranged to meet them accompanied by

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a hypnotist fontan refused to undergo

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hypnosis but prevost offered himself as

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a subject during a session recorded for

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radio ravos claimed to be in contact

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with extraterrestrials later fontan

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claimed to be regaining memories of his

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experience gear encouraged the men to

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approach the press and fonten gave an

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interview to paris match that was

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published in the december 21st 1979

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issue according to him he regained

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consciousness in a laboratory in the

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presence of orange-sized luminous balls

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that spoke to him gear wrote a book with

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a man titled contact's ufo sergi pantois

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that was published in 1980 the three men

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appeared on the television show tomp's

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ex on april 26 1980 to promote the book

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during the show fontan described being

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in contact with a being named hario who

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was a handsome creature with a large

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forehead pravos was hypnotized during

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the show the men took the opportunity to

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announce that the entities were in

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contact and would be returning to meet

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them on august 15 1980 when the date

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arrived around 2 000 people showed up

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and were disappointed the men announced

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that there would be a new meeting on

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august 15 1983 in the meantime geppin

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published a report calling the men's

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story a confabulation then two months

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before the anticipated meeting with

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their alien friends prevost had this to

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say the sergey pontois affair is bogus

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from start to finish i am solely

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responsible for it it was me who

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organized everything everything mounted

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i can prove it frank fontan spent the

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eight days of his disappearance in a

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friend's apartment in pantois i took him

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there and i brought him back according

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to pravos he did this to bring people

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together around a message of peace

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despite prevost's confession fontana and

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india stuck to their story and hundreds

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of people showed up at the cabbage field

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for another meeting that didn't take

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place reasons for the men having

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possibly invented such a story range

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from trying to make a profit to being

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part of a psychological experiment

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arranged by some sort of shadowy

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organization this last idea was

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reportedly supported by jacques villa in

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the book ufo back to the sergey pantois

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