There were multiple UFO reports, including sightings of aliens in France in late 1954. This book features a month run-down of the more significant ones. It is quite heavy going and somewhat repetitive. The author attempts to find patterns in the sightings and proposes a theory of "orthoteny" to explain it. This means that UFOs fly in straight lines. Michel says it was the poet and novelist Jean Cocteau who implored him "to see whether the objects move along certain lines ... whether their movements coincide with magnetic lines of force."
The book has an enthusiastic preface by General L.M. Chassin, General Air Defense Coordinator, Allied Air Forces, Central Europe (NATO), in which he asserts: "This book should be in every library," and he reasons, "We can therefore say categorically that mysterious objects have indeed appeared and continue to appear in the sky that surrounds us."
As for the aliens that were seen in 1954, they are described as creatures in divers' suits, about three and a half feet tall, wearing helmets, with large heads. However, one being was described as four and a half feet tall, with shaggy hair, dazzling eyes and two lights halfway up its body in front. Various animal reactions are recorded: a dog howled "to wake the dead", another dog was terrified after its encounter three days later and some terrified cows refused to produce milk.
What is keeping alien species from contacting the general public in a larger way?
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