Around 3,000 people are expected at the city's Zénith from March 16 to 18 for the “Exovision Symposium” On the program: future encounters of humans with extraterrestrials or “fantastic new evidence of UFO phenomena” The NGO Alliances Celestes is not classified as a sectarian movement, according to the prefecture. “We are in the ufological religion with the use of scientific vocabulary.

There are many followers of the New Age there,” notes Didier Pachoud.