UFO hunters in encounter with French town
Officials warn of extremist conspiracy cults as alien seekers invade silver saucer building in Limoges
THOUSANDS of believers in extra-terrestrial life descended on the quiet French town of Limoges over the weekend, hoping to connect with the aliens they are so certain exist.
Several thousand people made their way to the silver, saucer-shaped Zenith Limoges Metropole building in a field off one of the main highways.
It is a fitting setting for the three-day conference which features a line-up of speakers discussing mind-bending moments and “encounters with celestials in altered states of consciousness”.
Symposium Exovision is expected to draw 2,200 people paying from €150 to €190. The event, organised by Alliances Célestes (Celestial Alliances), claims to want to prepare and train humanity for the arrival of extraterrestrials or “newstyle encounters”. On the event’s website it says: “The mission of this citizen delegation is to accompany humanity in this process, in order to properly inform and reduce the fear and stress that this type of encounter can generate.”
However, some French officials say the fringe group event is not as benign as it seems. They claim attendees are there to peddle conspiracy theories and extremism that will have a detrimental effect on the city.
“I was stunned that such an event took place in Limoges,” Thierry Miguel, vice-president of the Haute-vienne department council said on social media, describing the event as a breeding ground for extremism and conspirators. “Who are these eccentrics who invite themselves to Limoges to put the ideas of charlatans and conspiracy theorists into people’s heads?”
One of the conference invitees has drawn particular attention is Antoine “Q” Cuttitta, who is a known Qanon sympathiser and hosted a Youtube channel that peddled conspiracy theories before it was shut down for breaching the platform’s policies.
According to Conspiracy Watch, the Frenchman promotes the same conspiracy theories developed by Qanon in the United States: that a satanic elite rules the world and is behind a massive paedophile ring and that the 2020 American election was rigged.
Though media are banned from the event, two French reporters from Le Populaire infiltrated the event. They said the general director of Alliances Célestes, Jean-michel Raoux, was dressed in a blue and yellow outfit and cap and introduced himself as being from the planet “Niam”.
Mr Raoux presented a set of grainy black-and-white photos to the crowd as irrefutable proof of alien life and, according to Le Populaire, Mr Raoux said he meets regularly with aliens, that he can draw extraterrestrials to specific places and has seen UFO landings.
The conference also heard from Anne Givaudan, a “galactic reporter” who said she comes from the land of Shambhala and told attendees that she saw human-animal hybrids in Antarctica.
“That’s why it’s time to get up and say to ourselves, ‘what are we doing?’, do we trust beings who have always deceived us in all areas? A new world must emerge,” she told the crowd.