Case file · Abduction
Cergy-Pontoise abduction
A young Frenchman was said to have been taken by a UFO for a week in November 1979; one of his friends later admitted it was staged.
1979 CE · 49.04, 2.08 · status: hoax
The account
On 26 November 1979 Franck Fontaine's friends Jean-Pierre Prévost and Salomon N'Diaye said a ball of light enveloped the car he was in. He reappeared a week later, with no memory, and Prévost claimed contact with aliens. The gendarmerie investigated. In 2004 Prévost admitted the abduction had been a hoax.
The sceptical view
Confessed hoax; the police inquiry had found no sign of anything beyond a disappearance.