Yvelines, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Oise, Gironde, Sarthe, Belgium.
In the Zénith de Limoges car park (Haute-Vienne), the license plates provide a fairly broad geography of visitors.
The “Exovision Symposium”, a conference organized in the Limousin capital until Monday to discuss the arrival of extraterrestrials on Earth, has aroused the concern of associations and local elected officials.
But this Saturday, the 2,200 people who had reserved their entry ticket for between 50 and 190 euros passed through the doors of the room, enthusiastic.
“It’s very well organized, fun, intelligent,” summarizes Dany, encountered during lunch, swallowing a sandwich in her converted van.
“This gathering helps open consciences.
It’s an opportunity for us, as individuals but also for the Nation,” says the septuagenarian from Charente-Maritime.
“I saw the ships twice, in the 1990s, in Brittany and in the Alps.
It wasn't a hallucination.
But at the state level, everything is camouflaged.
It is time that we talk about the beings around us.
France, on the subject, is late,” she regrets.
“Stop judging, open up”
The morning speakers appeared to the audience, as if descending from the sky on a platform, to join the stage in the shape of a backlit spaceship.
Jean-Michel Raoux, president of the NGO Alliances Celestes, began his speech by talking about encounters of the 5th type and “human-celestial” friendships.
Among the spectators, attentive and convinced, was Simone Coulonges.
This former psychiatrist traveled 8 hours from Vaucluse to attend this unique gathering in France.
“I communicate with beings from other planets.
Usually, I don't talk about it because people think we're weird.
They are afraid, they laugh.
Here, we meet people who, like us, are open in heart and mind.
Stop judging, open up,” she says, rolling her eyes.
“They are present, I feel it around us right now.”
A couple we met in front of the Zénith came from Villefranche-sur-Saône, 4 hours away, “out of simple curiosity”.
“The people here are not all panicked, as they want us to believe,” say Joseph and Marie, all smiles, whose first names are striking.
“Don’t see anything religious in it,” they specify.
The congress is due to end on Monday evening with a gala evening.
A seemingly good-natured event which remains under the close and discreet surveillance of territorial intelligence.
The vice-president of the departmental council, Thierry Miguel, had warned against this gathering, denouncing the presence of “conspiracists and flat-minded people”.