This is from the book “Thiaoouba
Prophecy” - about a direct contact to a superhuman race of nicelooking
giants that happend in 1987 in Australia - when then 58 year old Michel, suddenly got a thought of leaving bed half past
twelve in the night - then writing a message to his wife that he 'would be far away for ten days'.
He then left the house and was soon taken aboard on a big space-ship......
It took many years before he succeeded
in getting the book out. He says he got special help from the ETs
in remembering the incident and in the writing of the book.
"Believing is not enough... You need to KNOW
Preface
I have written this book as the result of
orders received and which I have obeyed. Further, it is an account of
events that happened to me personally - this I affirm.
I imagine that, to some extent, this
extraordinary story will appear to some readers as science fiction - a
story entirely invented - but I do not have the imagination that such a
fabrication would require. This is not science fiction.
The reader of good faith will be able to
recognise the truth in the message I transmit from my new friends to
the people of the planet Earth.
This message, in spite of numerous
references to races and religions, reflects neither racial nor
religious bias on behalf of the author.
Michel Desmarquet,
January, 1989
They have eyes but they do not see -
ears, and they do not hear...
The Bible
1.chapter
Thao
I awoke suddenly, not knowing how long I
had slept. I was completely awake - fresh and alert - but good God,
what time could it be? Lina was sleeping beside me, her fists closed,
but then Lina always sleeps...
I had no desire at all to go back to
sleep and besides, it was possibly already five in the morning. I got
up, made my way to the kitchen and checked the clock. Only 12.30am! It
was unusual for me to wake up at such an hour, took off my pyjamas and
dressed in trousers and a shirt, why, I had no idea. Neither can I
explain why I went to my desk, took a sheet of paper and a biro and
watched myself write, as if my hand had a mind of its own.
‘My dear, I’ll be away for about
ten days. Absolutely no need to worry.’
Leaving the note by the telephone, I
headed through the door and on to the verandah. I avoided the table on
which last night’s chess game remained, with the white King still in
checkmate, and silently opened the door leading on to the garden.
The night seemed to be suffused with a
strange brightness, which had nothing to do with the stars.
Instinctively, I tried to recall what phase the moon was currently in,
thinking that perhaps it was about to rise. Here, in the north-east of
Australia where I live, the nights are generally quite clear.
I descended the outside stairs and headed
towards the pandanus. Usually, at this time of night, we would have a
veritable concert from the frogs and crickets whose chirring sounds
fill the night. Now however, there was a heavy silence and I wondered
why.
I had only walked a few steps when, quite
suddenly, the colour of the philodendrons changed. The wall of the
house too, and the pandanus - all were bathed in a kind of bluish
light. The lawn seemed to undulate beneath my feet and the ground
beneath the pandanus waved also. The philodendrons distorted and the
wall of the house resembled a sheet floating in the wind.
here came Michel down the stair when he was taken
away....
Beginning to believe that I was not well,
I decided to return to the house when, at that precise moment, I felt
myself lifted quite gently from the ground. I rose, slowly at first,
above the philodendrons, and then quicker, until I saw the house
becoming smaller and smaller below me.
‘What is happening?’ I exclaimed in utter
bewilderment.
‘All is well now, Michel.’
By then, I believed I was dreaming.
Before me, a human being of impressive size, dressed in a one-piece
suit and wearing a completely transparent helmet on ‘her’ head, was
looking at me - friendly and smiling.
‘No, you are not dreaming,’ she said,
answering the question in my mind.
‘Yes,’ I replied, ‘but it always happens
this way in a dream and in the end you find you’ve fallen out of bed
and have a lump on your forehead!’ She smiled. ‘Further’, I continued,
‘you are speaking to me in French, my native tongue, and yet we are in
Australia. I do speak English, you know!’
‘So do I’.
‘It has to be a dream - one of those
stupid dreams, moreover. If not though, what are you doing on my
property?’
The long-range spaceship was
perfectly spherical, shiny metallic, @80 m diameter, no doors, no holes
whatsoever, levitating when not in flight. You enter levitating with a
special instrument, through a sort of piston that opens when you
approach. When inside, you watch the outside using enormous 3D
holographic displays with unbelievable clarity, color, zoom etc..
.(from Q&A)
Illustration here not from book.
‘We are not on your property, but above
it.’
‘Ah! It is a nightmare. You see I was
right. I’ll pinch myself!’ I accompanied the words with the action.
Ouch!
She smiled again. ‘Now are you satisfied,
Michel?’
‘But if it’s not a dream, why am I here
sitting on this rock? Who are those people over there, dressed in the
fashion of the last century?’
I was beginning to distinguish, in a
milky light, people talking and at a slight distance, others moving
around.
‘And you, who are you? Why aren’t you
normal sized?’
‘I am a normal size, Michel. On my planet
we are all this size. But everything in good time, my dear friend. I
hope you don’t mind me calling you that? If we aren’t good friends
already, I am sure that we will be soon.’
She stood there in front of me,
intelligence reflected in her smiling face and goodness emanating from
her entire being. It would not be possible to meet anyone with whom I
could feel more at ease.
‘Of course, you may call me what you
wish. And what is your name?’
‘My name is Thao, but first, I would like
you to know, once and for all, that this is not a dream. Indeed, it is
something quite different. For certain reasons which will be explained
to you later, you have been chosen to undertake a journey which very
few Earthlings have made - particularly in recent times.
‘We are, you and I, at this moment, in a
universe which is parallel to that of Earth. In order to admit you, as
well as ourselves, we have made use of an ‘airlock’.
At this instant, time has stopped for
you, and you could remain here twenty or fifty of your Earthly years
and then return as if you hadn’t left. Your physical body would remain
absolutely unchanged.’
‘But what are these people doing?’
‘They exist as well as can be expected
and, as you will learn later, the population density is very low. Death
only occurs by suicide or accident. Time is suspended. There are men
and women, as well as some animals who are 30 000, 50 000 or even many
more Earth years old.’
‘But why are they here and how did they
come to be here? Where were they born?’
‘On Earth. . . they are all here by
accident.’
‘By accident? What do you mean?’
‘It’s very simple. You have heard of the
Bermuda Triangle?’ I nodded. ‘Well, quite simply, in this spot and in
others less well known, this parallel universe becomes confused with
your universe so that there exists between them a natural warp.
‘People, animals or even objects finding
themselves in the immediate vicinity of a warp are literally sucked
into it. Thus, you can have, for example, an entire fleet of boats
disappear in several seconds. Sometimes a person, or persons, can pass
back into your universe after several hours, several days or several
years. More often, however, they never return.
‘When a man does return and relates his
experience, the vast majority of people don’t believe him - and if he
persists, he is assumed ‘crazy’. Most of the time, such a person
recounts nothing at all, realising how he will appear in the eyes of
his peers. Sometimes too, he returns amnesic, and if he recovers some
memory, it is not of what happened in the parallel universe, and
therefore sheds no light on the subject.
‘There was,’ Thao continued, ‘a typical
case of this passage into a parallel universe in North America, where a
young man literally vanished while going to fetch water from a well
which was situated several hundred metres from his house. About an hour
later, family and friends set out in search of him and, as there had
been a fresh snowfall of about 20 centimetres, it should have been
quite simple - they had only to follow the footprints left by the young
man. But, right in the middle of the field - the footprints stopped.
‘There were no trees around, no rocks on
to which he could have jumped - nothing strange or unusual - the
footprints just stopped. Some people believed that he had been taken by
a spacecraft, but that could not have been, as you will see later. This
poor man had quite simply been sucked into the parallel universe.’
‘I remember’, I said, ‘I did hear of that
particular case, but how do you know all about it?’
‘You will find out later how I know,’ she
replied enigmatically.
We were interrupted by the sudden
appearance of a group of people so bizarre that again, I wondered if
this was all a dream. About a dozen men, accompanied by what seemed to
be a woman, emerged from behind a pile of rocks a hundred metres from
where we were. The sight was even stranger, since these human beings
appeared to have stepped out of the pages of prehistoric records. With
the gait of gorillas, they brandished enormous clubs which modern man
would not have been able to lift from the ground. These hideous
creatures were coming straight for us, howling like wild beasts. I made
a move to retreat, but my companion told me there was nothing to fear
and that I should stay still. She put her hand on the buckle of her
belt and turned so that she faced them.
I heard a series of small clicks and five
of the strongest looking men fell to the ground, motionless. The rest
of the group stopped cleanly and began moaning. They prostrated
themselves before us.
I looked again at Thao. She stood like a
statue, her face set. Her eyes were fixed on those people as though she
was trying to hypnotise them. I later learned that she was giving
orders by telepathy to the female of the group. Suddenly, this woman
got up and began, it seemed to me, to issue orders in a guttural voice
to the others. They then helped remove the bodies, carrying them on
their backs to the pile of rocks mentioned earlier.
‘What are they doing?’ I asked.
‘They will cover their dead with stones.’
‘Did you kill them?’
‘I had to.’
‘What do you mean? Were we really in
danger?’
‘Of course we were. These are people who
have been here for ten or fifteen thousand years - who knows? We don’t
have time to establish that and besides, it is of no importance.
Nevertheless, it illustrates well what I was explaining to you a few
moments ago. These people passed into this universe at a certain time,
and they have lived in that time ever since.’
‘It’s frightful!’
‘I agree. However it is part of natural,
and therefore universal, law. Furthermore, they are dangerous because
they behave more like wild beasts than human beings. Dialogue would not
have been possible between them and us, just as it is not possible
between them and most of the others living in this parallel universe.
For one thing, they are unable to communicate; and for another, they,
less than anyone, understand what has happened to them. We were in real
danger and, if I do say so, I have done them a favour just now, of
liberating them.’
‘Liberating?’
‘Don’t look so shocked, Michel. You know
quite well what I mean by that.
‘They are liberated from their physical
bodies and are now able to continue their cycle, like every living
being, according to the normal process.’
‘So if I understand correctly, this
parallel universe is a curse - a kind of hell or purgatory?’
‘I didn’t realise you were religious!’
‘I just make this comparison to show you
that I am trying to understand,’ I replied, wondering how she could
know whether or not I was religious.
‘I know, Michel, I was only teasing. You
were right in explaining it as a kind of purgatory but, of course, this
is quite accidental. In fact, this is one of several accidents of
nature. An albino is an accident, and a four-leafed clover can also be
considered as an accident. Your appendix is just as much an accident.
Your doctors still wonder what use it could possibly have in your body.
The answer - no use whatsoever. Now usually, in nature, everything has
a precise reason for existing - that’s why I list the appendix among
the natural ‘accidents’.
‘People living in this universe suffer
neither physically nor morally. For example, if I hit you, you would
feel no pain, but if the blows were strong enough, although without
pain, you could still die from them. This might be difficult to
comprehend, but it is so. Those existing here know nothing of what I
have just explained to you, and it is fortunate because they would be
tempted to commit suicide - which, even here, is not a solution.’
‘What do they eat?’
‘They don’t eat, nor do they drink,
because they don’t feel the need to. Here, remember, time has stopped -
those dead won’t even rot.’
‘But that’s terrible! In all, the
greatest service that one can render these people would be to kill
them!’
‘You raise an important point there.
Effectively it would be one of two solutions.’
‘What is the other?’
‘To send them back where they came from -
but that would pose great problems. Because we are able to make use of
the warp, we could return many of them to your universe, and thus
liberate [1] them, but I’m sure you are aware of the enormous problems
that would create for the majority of these people. Here, as I have
already said, you have people, who have been here for thousands of
years. What would happen if they found themselves back in the universe
they left so long ago?’
‘They might go insane. In all, there is
nothing to do.’ She smiled gently at my affirmation.
‘You are certainly the man of action we
require, Michel, but beware of jumping to conclusions - you have much
more to see.’
She put her hand on my shoulder, having
to incline forward slightly to do so. Although I didn’t know it at the
time, Thao measured 290 centimetres, exceptionally tall for a human
being.
‘I see with my own eyes that we made the
right choice in selecting you - you have an astute mind, but I cannot
explain everything to you now, for two reasons.’
‘Namely?’
‘First, it is still too soon for such an
explanation. By this, I mean that you must be instructed further on
certain points before proceeding beyond.’
‘I understand - and second?’
‘The second reason is that they are
waiting for us. We must leave.’
With a light touch, she turned me around.
I followed her gaze and stared wide-eyed with surprise. About 100
metres from us was an enormous sphere, from which emanated a bluish
Aura. I later learned that it measured 70 metres in diameter. The light
was not steady, but shimmered, resembling a heat haze when one looks
from a distance at sand heated by the summer sun.
This enormous sphere ‘shimmered’ about
ten metres from the ground. With no windows, no openings, no ladder, it
appeared as smooth as the shell of an egg.
Thao signalled for me to follow her and
we set out towards the machine. I remember that moment very well.
During the short time we took in approaching the sphere, I was so
excited that I lost control of my thoughts. A constant stream of images
flashed through my mind, resembling a film in the ‘fast-forward’ mode.
I saw myself relating this adventure to my family, and I saw again
newspaper articles I had read on the subject of UFOs.
I remember a feeling of sadness sweep
over me when I thought of my family whom I loved so much; I saw myself
caught, as though in a trap, and it occurred to me that I might never
see them again...
‘You have absolutely nothing to fear,
Michel,’ said Thao. ‘Trust me. You will be reunited with your family
very soon, and in good health.’
I believe my mouth fell open in surprise,
triggering in Thao a melodious laugh, such as is rarely heard among us
Earthlings. That was the second time she had read my thoughts; the
first time I thought might have been a coincidence, but this time there
could be no doubt.
When we arrived in close proximity to the
sphere, Thao placed me in a position opposite her and about a metre’s
distance away.
‘Do not touch me under any pretext,
Michel, whatever happens. Under any pretext - do you understand?’
I was quite taken aback by this formal
order, but I nodded.
She placed her hand on a type of
‘medallion’ I had noticed earlier ‘attached’ at the height of her left
breast, and with the other hand, she held what resembled a large biro
which she unclasped from her belt.
She pointed the ‘biro’ above our heads
and in the direction of the sphere. I thought I saw a green beam of
light flash from it but I couldn’t be sure. She then pointed the ‘biro’
at me, her other hand still on the ‘medallion’ and quite simply, we
rose, simultaneously, towards the wall of the machine. Just when I was
sure we were going to collide with it, a portion of the hull retracted
like an enormous piston in the core of a cylinder, revealing an
opening, oval in shape, of about three metres in height.
We regained our feet, Thao and I, on a
type of landing inside the craft. She let go of her ‘medallion’ and
with a dexterity that suggested she had done it often, she refastened
her ‘biro’.
‘Come. We can touch each other now,’ she
said.
Taking me by the shoulder, she guided me
towards a small blue light, so intense that I had almost to half close
my eyes. I had never seen a colour like it on Earth. When we were
almost below the light, the wall on which it was located ‘let us pass’.
That is the only way to describe it. From the way in which my mentor
was leading me, I could have sworn I was going to have a handsome lump
on my forehead, but we passed through the walls - like ghosts! Thao
laughed heartily at the shocked expression on my face. That did me
good. I remember that laugh - like a refreshing breeze and reassuring
at a time when I was not feeling at ease.
I had often spoken with friends of
‘flying saucers’ and was persuaded that they did, in fact, exist - but
when you are actually faced with the reality, so many questions cloud
your brain that you think it will burst. Of course, deep down I was
delighted. From Thao’s manner towards me, I sensed that I had nothing
to fear. However, she was not alone: I wondered what the others were
going to be like. In spite of my fascination with this adventure, I
still doubted if I would see my family again. Already, they seemed so
far away, when only several minutes earlier I was in my own garden.
We were now ‘gliding’ at ground level
along a tunnel-shaped corridor that led to a small room, the walls of
which were of a yellow so intense that I had to close my eyes. The
walls formed a vault - exactly as if we were inside an upturned bowl.
Thao covered my head with a helmet made
from a transparent material and I found, by opening one eye, that this
enabled me to tolerate the light.
‘How do you feel?’ she asked.
‘Better, thank you, but that light - how
can you stand it?’
‘It is not a light. It is just the
present colour of the walls in this room.’
‘Why ‘present’? Have you brought me here
to repaint them?’ I joked.
‘There is no paint. There are only
vibrations, Michel. You still believe that you are in your Earthly
universe, when you are not. You are now in one of our super long-range
spacecraft, capable of travelling at several times the speed of light.
We will be leaving soon, if you will lie down on this bunk..?’
There, in the centre of the room were two
boxes - rather like coffins without lids. I stretched out in one of
them and Thao in the other. I heard her speak in a language unfamiliar
to me, but very harmonious. I wanted to lift myself up a little but
couldn’t, being held by an unknown and invisible force. The yellow
colour progressively disappeared from the walls, to be replaced by a
blue that was certainly no less intense. The ‘paintwork’ had been
redone...
One third of the room suddenly became
dark and I noticed minute lights sparkling like stars.
Thao’s voice was clear in the darkness.
‘These are stars, Michel. We have left Earth’s parallel universe and
will be leaving your planet further and further behind, to take you to
visit ours. We know you are going to be greatly interested in the
journey, but also in our departure that will be quite slow, for your
benefit.
‘We can watch on the screen you see in
front of you.’
‘Where is Earth?’
‘We still can’t see it, being almost
directly above it, at approximately 10 000 metres altitude...’
Suddenly, a voice could be heard,
speaking what seemed to be the same language Thao had used moments
earlier. Thao answered briefly and then the voice spoke to me in French
- excellent French (although the tone was more melodic than is typical)
welcoming me aboard. It was very much the ‘welcome aboard’ of our
airline companies, and I recall being quite amused by that - in spite
of the unique situation in which I found myself.
At the same instant, I felt a very light
movement of the air and it became cool, as though air-conditioned.
Things began to happen quickly. On the screen, appeared what could only
have been the sun. At first, it seemed to touch the edge of the Earth
or, more precisely, South America, as I later learned. Again, I
wondered if I could be dreaming. Second by second America was
shrinking. Australia couldn’t be seen, as the sun’s rays had not yet
reached it. Now the contours of the planet could be distinguished, and
we seemed to move around the globe, to a position above the North Pole.
There, we changed direction, drawing away from Earth at an incredible
speed.
Our poor Earth became a basketball, then
a billiard ball until it finally disappeared - or almost - from the
screen. Instead, my vision was filled with the sombre blue of space. I
turned my head in Thao’s direction hoping for further explanation.
‘Did you like that?’
‘It was wonderful, but so fast - is it
possible to travel at such a high speed?’
‘That was nothing, my dear friend. We
‘took off’ very gently. Only now are we travelling at full speed.’
‘How fast?’ I interrupted.
‘Several times the speed of light.’
‘Of light? But how many times? It’s
incredible! What about the light barrier?’
‘I can well understand that it appears
incredible to you. Not even your experts would believe it - it is,
however, the truth.’
‘You say several times the speed of
light, but how may times?’
‘Michel, during this journey many things
will be intentionally revealed to you - many things, but there will
also be details to which you will not have access. The precise speed of
our spacecraft is one such detail. I’m sorry, for I know it will
disappoint you not to have your great curiosity for all things
satisfied, but there will be so many new and interesting things for you
to see and learn, that you must not mind too much when information is
withheld from you.’
Her manner indicated that the matter was
closed and I didn’t insist further, sensing that to do so would have
been rude.
‘Look’ she said to me. On the screen a
coloured dot had appeared and was growing rapidly.
‘What is it?’
‘Saturn.’
The reader must forgive me if the
descriptions I give are not as detailed as he/she might wish, but it
must be understood that I had not yet recovered all my senses. I had
seen so much in so short a time, and was somewhat ‘disoriented.’
As we approached, the famous Saturn grew
rapidly larger on the screen. Its colours were wonderful - incomparable
to anything I had ever seen on Earth. There were yellows, reds, greens,
blues, oranges - within each colour, an infinite range of nuances
mingled, separated, grew stronger then weaker, creating the famous
rings and confined within them...
It was an amazing spectacle, which filled
more and more of our screen.
Realising I was no longer restrained by
the force field, I wanted to remove my mask so as to see the colours
better, but Thao signalled that I should do nothing.
‘Where are the satellites?’ I asked.
‘You can see two, almost side by side
towards the right of the screen.’
‘How far away are we?’
‘We must be approximately 6 000 000
kilometres or perhaps more. They know exactly on the flight deck of
course, but to give you a more precise estimate, I’d have to know
whether our ‘camera’ is on full zoom or not.’
Saturn suddenly disappeared from the left
side of the screen, which filled again with the ‘colour’ of space.
I believe it was at that moment I felt
exalted, as I never had before. It hit me that I was in the process of
living an extraordinary adventure - and why? I had asked for nothing
and had never contemplated the possibility (who would have dared?) of
experiencing such an adventure.
Thao got up. ‘You can do the same now,
Michel.’ I obeyed and we found ourselves again, side by side in the
centre of the cabin. It was only then, I noticed Thao no longer wore
her helmet.
‘Can you explain to me,’ I asked, ‘why
just now, you were still wearing a helmet while I was able to accompany
you without one, and yet now I have one while you don’t?’
‘It is very simple. We come from a planet
bacteriologically different from Earth, which, for us, is a veritable
culture medium. Thus, in order to contact you, I was obliged to take
this basic precaution. You, yourself, were a danger to me but you are
no longer.’
‘I don’t follow you.’
‘When you entered this cabin, the colour
was too intense for you and I gave you the helmet you are now wearing,
which was specially designed for you. Indeed, we were able to
anticipate your reaction.
‘During the very short time the cabin was
yellow and then blue, eighty per cent of the dangerous bacteria in you
was destroyed. Then perhaps you felt a coolness in the air, similar to
when an air conditioner is working; this was another form of
disinfection by ... let’s call it radiation, although that is not the
correct word - it cannot be translated into any Earth language. In this
way, I have been disinfected one hundred per cent, but you still have
enough bacteria to harm us considerably. I am going to give you these
two pills, and in three hours you will be able to consider yourself as
‘pure’ as one of us.’ As she spoke, she took a little box from beside
her bunk, removed the pills and held them out to me, along with a test
tube containing a liquid that I supposed to be water. I swallowed them
both, lifting the base of my helmet to do so. Next ... well, everything
happened very quickly and it was all very strange.
Thao took me in her arms, put me on the
bunk and removed my mask. I saw that happen from two or three metres
from my body! I imagine that certain things in this book will seem
incomprehensible to the unwarned reader, but I saw my body from a
distance and I was able to move about in the room just by thought.
Thao spoke. ‘Michel, I know that you see
me and hear me, but I am not able to see you myself, therefore I cannot
look at you when I speak to you. Your Astral being has left your
body. There is no danger in this - you needn’t worry. I know that
this is the first time this has happened to you, and there are people
who panic...
‘I have given you a special drug in order
to cleanse your body of all bacteria that is dangerous to us. I have
also given you another drug that has caused your Astral being to leave
your body - this will last three hours, the time it will take to purify
you. In this way, you will be able to visit our spacecraft, without
danger of contamination to us and without wasting time.’
As strange as it seems, I found this
quite natural - and I followed her. It was fascinating. She arrived in
front of a panel that slid open to let us pass into one chamber after
another. I was following at some distance and each time, if the panel
had already closed by the time I reached it - I quite simply passed
through it.
Finally, we reached a circular room,
about 20 metres in diameter, in which there were at least a dozen
‘astronauts’ - all women and all about Thao’s size. Thao approached a
group of four who were seated in enormous, comfortable looking
armchairs, arranged in a circle. When she sat down in a vacant seat,
the four heads turned towards her questioningly. She almost seemed to
take delight in making them wait: finally she spoke.
I was again charmed to hear that language
- the assonance was quite new to me, and the intonations so harmonious
that one would have thought they were singing. They all seemed to be
greatly interested in Thao’s report. I supposed they were speaking of
me, believing correctly that I was the main purpose of their mission.
When Thao stopped, the questions streamed
forth, and two other astronauts joined the group. The discussion
swelled and developed a tone of increased excitement.
Not understanding a word of what was
being said, and having noticed on entering three people positioned in
front of screens displaying 3-dimensional images, more or less vividly
coloured, I approached to discover that this must certainly be the
control room of the spacecraft. Being invisible made it even much more
interesting since each person was performing her duties without being
disturbed, or even distracted, by my presence.
On a screen bigger than the rest, I was
able to discern dots - some larger than others and some brighter, which
moved steadily and without interruption in their prescribed directions,
several towards the left of the screen and others towards the right.
Their speed increased as they grew on the
screen and finally exited from it. Their colours were often brilliant
and extraordinarily beautiful, ranging from subtle tones to a blinding
yellow, like the light from our sun.
I soon realised that these were the
planets and suns among which we were navigating, and I was absolutely
fascinated by their silent progression across the screen. I can’t say
how long I had been watching them, when suddenly a strange sound filled
the cabin - a sound which was soft and at the same time, insistent, and
which was accompanied by many flashing lights.
The effect was immediate. The astronauts
who had been talking with Thao, now approached the control post and
each took a seat that seemed to be personally assigned to her.
Everyone’s eyes were fixed attentively on the screens.
Right in the middle of these large
monitors, I began to distinguish an enormous mass that is difficult to
describe. Let me say only that it was round in form and blue-grey in
colour. It remained immobile in the centre of each screen.
In the room, all was silent. The general
attention was focused on three astronauts in command of oblong-shaped
pieces of equipment resembling in some ways, our computers.
Suddenly, covering a huge area of what I
believed was a wall of the cabin I was stupefied to see an image of New
York - no! That’s Sydney, I said to myself, and yet the bridge is
different ... was it even a bridge?
My surprise was such I had to ask Thao,
at whose side I was standing. I had forgotten however, that I was no
longer in my physical body and no one could hear me. I was able to hear
Thao and others commenting on what they were seeing but, not
understanding their language, it didn’t get me far. I was convinced
though, that Thao had not lied to me and therefore we had well and
truly left Earth behind. My mentor had explained we were travelling at
several times the speed of light ... and I had seen Saturn pass by and
later, what I took to be planets and suns - so had we come back, and
why?
Thao spoke aloud and in French, which
caused all heads to turn in her direction.
‘Michel, we are stationed above the
planet Aremo X3 which is almost twice the size of planet Earth, and as
you can see on the screen, quite similar to your world.
‘I can’t explain at any length our
current mission as I am required to participate in the operation, but I
will do so later. To put you on the right track, I will tell you that
our mission concerns atomic radiation such as you know on Earth’.
Everyone seemed preoccupied: each knew
exactly what to do and when to do it. We were stationary. The large
panel projected an image of the centre of a town. The reader should
understand that this large panel was in fact, no more than an immense
television screen, projecting an image in relief so real, we could have
been looking out the window of a tall building.
My attention turned to another smaller
screen being monitored by two of my ‘hostesses’. On this panel I could
see our spacecraft, as I had already seen it in our parallel universe.
As I watched, I was surprised to see, slightly below the middle of our
vessel, a small sphere ejected, like an egg from a hen. Once outside,
this sphere accelerated rapidly towards the planet below. As it
disappeared from view, another sphere emerged in the same manner, and
then a third. I noticed each sphere was being monitored on separate
screens by different groups of astronauts.
The descent of the spheres could now be
easily followed on the large panel. The distance should have made them
invisible in quite a short time but they remained in sight and I
deduced that the camera had to have an extraordinarily powerful ‘zoom’.
Indeed, the effect of the zoom was so strong that the first sphere
disappeared from the right of the panel and the second from the left.
We could now only see the middle one and followed its descent to the
ground quite clearly. It stopped in the centre of an immense square,
situated among apartment buildings. There it hovered, as though
suspended several metres from the ground. The other spheres were
monitored in the same detail. One was above a river that flowed through
the town, and the other hovered above a hill, near the city.
Unexpectedly, the panel projected a new
image. I could now distinctly see the doors of the apartment buildings,
or rather, the doorways, for where doors should have been, were gaping
openings.
I remember clearly that, until then, I
had not realised how odd this town was...
Nothing had moved...
Atomic destruction
A single word can impart what was being
reflected from the panel: ‘Desolation’. The street we were observing,
piece by piece, was cluttered with ‘mounds’ generally arranged one
behind the other. Some stood apart while others lay right in the middle
of the openings to the buildings. Imperceptibly, the camera zoomed
closer and I soon understood that these ‘mounds’ had to be vehicles -
vehicles that were somewhat similar in shape to flat-bottomed boats.
Around me, the astronauts were attending
to their desks. From each sphere emerged a long tube that descended
slowly towards the surface. When the end of the tube touched the
ground, a little cloud of dust rose, and I realised that the vehicles
too were covered in a thick blanket of dust, rendering them formless
and unrecognisable. Of course, the sphere that hovered above the river
had its tube in the water. My attention was now riveted on the panel,
for the scene was quite fascinating - one had the exact impression of
being in the street.
My attention was especially drawn to a
darkened place in the entrance of a huge building. I could have sworn
something moved...
I also felt there was a certain agitation
among the astronauts. Abruptly, and with a series of jerks, the ‘thing’
emerged into the light. I was horrified by what I saw. As for my
‘hostesses’, apart from some utterances spoken more quickly, and a few
exclamations in which emotion could be discerned, I must say that they
didn’t really seem surprised. However, what we were seeing so clearly
on the panel was a horrible cockroach, about two metres long and 80
centimetres high.
The reader will certainly have seen, at
one time or another, these nasty little insects we have on Earth,
particularly in hot climates, living in cupboards and damp places.
You will agree that they are loathsome,
but the biggest would be no more than five centimetres in length.
Imagine then, one with the dimensions I have just described. It was
truly an abomination.
The tube from the sphere began to
retract, yet was still a metre from the ground when suddenly, the
creature hurried forward to attack this thing which moved.
Untrustingly, it stopped again, when from under the building, a
veritable swarm of the creatures emerged, spilling one over the other.
Just then, a ray of intense blue light beamed from the sphere and swept
over the group, reducing it instantly to carbonised dust. A cloud of
black smoke hid the entrance to the building from view.
My curiosity further aroused, I watched
the other screens, but they indicated no problems. The sphere from the
river was returning towards us, and the sphere on the hill retracted
its tube, moved a little higher and lowered the tube again, along with
a second cylinder above the sphere. I had guessed, of course, that the
astronauts were collecting samples of soil, water and air. Being in
Astral body, I couldn’t ask Thao any questions; in any case, she seemed
quite busy conferring with two of the ‘hostesses. The spheres began
climbing towards us and were soon ready to be ‘reabsorbed’ by our
spacecraft.
When the operation was complete, Thao and
the two astronauts mentioned took their places opposite their
respective desks. Instantly, the images we received on the panel and
screens changed completely.
I understood we were leaving when each
one took her place. I observed that all the astronauts had a similar
posture in their seats, which intrigued me. I later learned that a
force field restrained them exactly as a security harness would have
restrained a stuntman on Earth.
The suns illuminated the planet through a
reddish fog. We had left by then, and I assumed we were following the
contour of the planet, at the same altitude. In fact, we could see a
desert-like area passing by, dissected by dry riverbeds that sometimes
crossed each other at right angles. It occurred to me they might be
canals, or at least had been man made.
The panel revealed images of a town
apparently intact, then it disappeared and the screen went blank. The
vessel had obviously gained speed in flying over the planet, as the
images on the smaller screens, showing a lake or inland sea, flashed by
quickly. Suddenly, several exclamations were heard and we immediately
slowed down. The panel was turned on and presented a close-up of the
lake. We stopped.
We could clearly see a portion of the
coast and, beyond some large rocks by the lake, we could make out
cube-like structures which I imagined to be habitations. As soon as we
had stopped, the spheres began their operations again, just as they had
earlier.
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