UFO's and Defense What Should we Prepare For

I but he did remark that when the craft departed, the grass stood straight up, then returned
I to its normal position.
The interest ofthis sighting, apart from its strangeness, lies in the visible traces left on
the vegetation and, namely, on an amaranth bush, the tips of whose leaves, which had
I completely dried up, led one to think that they had been subjected to intense electrical
fields. However, despite short time delays before intervention, the sampling conditions
I and then the storage of the sample did not permit this hypothesis to be verified definitively.
Based on an earlier study on the behavior of plants subjected to electrical fields, it
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emerged that:
- the electrical field, which was what probably caused the blades ofgrass to lift up, had
to have exceeded 30 kV/m,
the effects on the amaranth that were observed were probably due to an electrical
field that had to have far exceeded 200 kV/mat the level of the plant.
I Chapter 5 - Counterexamples of Phenomena That Have Been Explained
The cases reported in the preceding chapters have remained unexplained, despite the
richness oftheir data. Such cases are in the minority. Many sightings of aerial phenomena
made in France that the witnesses could not understand and reported to the gendarmerie
have been explained after a short investigation by the gendarmerie and/or
GEPAN/SEPRA: the causes of these have been the moon, planets, aircraft, weather
balloons, reflections from automobile headlights on clouds; etc., and, very rarely, hoaxes.
Sometimes the investigation yielded more unusual explanations. We will give two
examples.
I 5.1 A Strange Object Crosses a Highway (September 29, 1988)
I GEPANISEPRA investigation
An auto mechanic driving on the Paris-Lille freeway saw an enormous red ball cross the
road a few dozen meters away from him and roll down below the road. Casting •
I reflections oflight and enveloped in dense smoke, it finally came to a halt in a field.
I Troubled by this disturbing observation, the auto mechanic apparently reported it to the
highway gendarmes. On the chiefs orders, the gendarmerie then sealed off the freeway
and a zone several kilometers around the object. The principal witness and his family were
I taken to the hospital, where they underwent a series of examinations. Civilian and military
security officers went to the site of the incident, equipped primarily with Geiger counters.
At that time, in fact, they were waiting for the Soviet satellite Cosmos 1900, which was
I equipped with a nuclear power generator, to fall, and precise instructions had been given.
When consulted, CNES very quickly informed them that Cosmos 1900 was overflying_the
Indian Ocean at that very moment. Did the red ball come from space? Advancing with
I caution, monitoring their nuclear radiation detectors, the security specialists drew near a
sphere approximately 1.50 min diameter. Under the bright light from the searchlights,
they saw that it bore no sign of the considerable heat build-up or mechanical effects that
I atmospheric reentry would have produced. It appeared to be intact, and small mirrors
covered its surface. No smoke or radioactivity were detected near it.
It was later learned that this sphere, which was intended to serve as a decoration at a
Jean-Michel Jarre concert, had fallen from the truck that was carrying it to London. The
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