'Franco': trance on the road and burn marks near De Aar

What was reported

Driving along a tar road near De Aar in November 1975, Franco heard a vibrating sort of noise, grew sleepy, pulled over and fell at once into a trance-like sleep. He dreamed he lay totally at peace on a table under bright lights while a few people he cannot picture probed his right side, which felt warm; he had no fear. On waking he drove into De Aar and booked into his hotel, where his side itched and the mirror showed six red dots like burn marks with a faint red line snaking through them. Only then, recalling the dream, did he become frightened. The dots faded in about four weeks, the line in four months. He has since felt the same vibration but nothing more, and as a boy of five or six had told his parents he came from another planet. He came forward after Radio 702 and wants anonymity.

What Hind made of it

Hind cannot judge genuineness from so few details but is almost certain Franco would not know of the marks 'aliens' leave on examinees; she thinks the case has great potential, citing Budd Hopkins's finding that children are usually taken from age seven, so Franco may misremember his age, and hopes to enlarge the report later.

In their words

• in the mirror he could see six red dots like burn marks and a faint red line snaking through the spots.

• I think this case has great potential

Cross references

• Radio 702 interview with John Robbie, 31 March 1992
• Budd Hopkins

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 6 (July 1992), spread 13