Inside the £160-a-ticket UFO conference where thousands of alien hunters flocked to French city to ‘train humanity for the arrival of aliens’ – as councilor criticizes ‘eccentrics’ peddling ‘conspiracy theories’
Thousands of UFO fanatics flocked to a small town in central France in the hope of finally encountering extraterrestrial life.
The event, organized by fringe group Alliances Célestes, reportedly attracted around 2,200 people who each paid between €150 and €190 (£128 to £162) to attend the three-day conference held at the Zenith Limoges Metropole- building in Limoges, a small city with a population of about 130,000.
Organizers said they wanted to prepare people for the arrival of aliens or “new style encounters.”
The event’s website states: ‘The mission of this citizen delegation is to guide humanity in this process, to properly inform and reduce the fear and stress that these types of encounters can cause.’
Although the media was excluded from the event, video of the conference was leaked to BFMTV, where thousands of people listened intently to someone speaking on a set on stage.
The event, organized by fringe group Alliances Célestes, reportedly attracted around 2,200 people who each paid between €150 and €190 (£128 to £162) to attend.
The stage was decorated with white furniture, including several chairs and a high table on the right
The conference was held at the Zenith Limoges Metropole building (pictured) in Limoges, a small city of around 130,000 inhabitants.
The stage was decorated with white furniture, including several chairs and a high table on the right.
The background of the set consisted of ‘futuristic’ windows depicting stars speeding past the ‘alien chamber’ they were in.
The speaker can be heard telling the conference participants, “We are in contact with civilizations. When I say in contact, it is about communication and a partnership, a collaboration.
‘But they have a big problem, these civilizations, and that is that they don’t know how to communicate with the citizens of Earth.
‘For what? Because the citizens of Earth are afraid.”
Two French reporters managed to sneak in and said they saw Alliances Célestes director Jean-Michel Raoux dressed in a blue and yellow outfit, claiming he was a being from the planet ‘Niam’.
Raoux reportedly claims that he regularly encounters aliens and that he has the power to bring aliens to different parts of the Earth.
While many in France dismissed the event as a harmless conference, political figures warned that these events would attract conspiracy theorists and extremists.
One of those invited to the conference was QAnon sympathizer Antoine “Q” Cuttitta
The crowd also heard from Anne Givaudan, a “galactic reporter” who claimed she was from the land of “Shambhala.” She told conference participants that she has witnessed human-hybrid animals in Antarctica.
‘That’s why it’s time to stand 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 a crowd.
But while many in France dismissed the event as a harmless conference, political figures warned that the events attract conspiracy theorists and extremists.
One of those invited to the conference was QAnon sympathizer Antoine “Q” Cuttitta.
The conspiracy theorist regularly posted conspiracy videos on YouTube before the platform closed his channel.
According to Conspiracy Watch, Cuttita helped found the Human Health Alliance International, a group known for its embrace of “alternative” medicine. It provided a platform that could connect patients with debilitating diseases to ‘aromatherapists’, ‘energetics’, ‘magnetizers’, ‘mass therapists’ or even ‘naturopathic practitioners’.
“I was stunned that such an event took place in Limoges,” tweeted Thierry Miguel, vice-president of the Haute-Vienne department council.
‘Who are these eccentrics who invite themselves to Limoges to put the ideas of charlatans and conspiracy theorists into people’s heads?’
Miguel said he plans to organize a public meeting on the role of science and social progress.
“We cannot stand there with our arms folded in the face of possible charlatans who come to talk to us about theories from another time,” he told BFMTV.
‘When a society is dysfunctional, it resorts to these kinds of values. But we must strive to distinguish the truth from the false by relying on science.”