I wonder if they, and the other phenomena described, had anything to do with the son's almost classic description of sleep paralysis which he describes happening after the encounters. (I think we can think of the son as the primary witness). Perhaps similar episodes happened before.
I wonder if the investigators gave any consideration to the possible role played by sleep paralysis or some similar parasomnia.
From approx. 49 mins. 18 secs. into the video,
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Then he adds something else, hesitantly. He says he does not know how to explain it. At times, he says, the sleepiness morphed into a strange out of body experience, and he could not move, not an arm, not a finger, not a leg, nothing.
This would last a few seconds when it happened. This occurred mostly in the early morning, around four or five o'clock. Awake in bed, he would begin to drift. He would try to speak, and after a few moments he could no longer move. His body would not respond, but his mind remained clear, his awareness remained intact.
This happened two or three times. He said it felt as though his mind was outside his body. He tried to command his body, but could not. He was like someone dead, he says. Yet he was fully conscious, his limbs no longer obeyed him. The second time it happened, he was petrified. He remembers thinking, this time you are paralyzed. He tried to call out. He could not. He was blind [eyes closed?] mute, and limp.
All that remained was awareness. Asked whether this sensation involved his body, he hesitates. He says it felt as though he was floating above his body. He is asked whether he had the impression of seeing himself lying there. He answers no.
The family appear to have been "interviewed" as a group, so it's not a particularly systematic investigation. In the first few minutes of the video, there's a vivid account of the grandmother's testimony- she saw lights moving in June 1966, and is worried of the risk of fire, but as far as I can make out she doesn't say that the lights were
flying, or describe anything extraordinary
. The father's testimony to the investigators was subject to prompts/ interjections from the son. Even then, the father's account of six lights moving in (not
above) a field 1-1.2 km away at walking pace might have a mundane explanation. The lights converge at a larger lit feature, and appear to merge (or perhaps they enter, or are extinguished on reaching the object).
When the narrator gets to talking about the mother's experiences, we find out that other family members are present:
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The investigators then turn to the mother of the family, who until now has said nothing... ...She answers that she did seee the lights, but no longer remembers clearly, adding that she is nearsighted. The father remarks that she is not particularly interested in such matters.
The original investigators seem to regard the son as the main witness;
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The events recorded up to this point reflect the unfolding of the 3rd sequence of the investigation. The witness [not witnesses] has given this account three times, first in a letter, then to Monsieur Dupand de Lagger Vier [Sic? YouTube subtitles] and finally to the investigators themselves.
While the essential facts and the core of the account are identical in all three versions, there are, as one would expect, differences in detail... ...the investigators do not attempt to catalogue these discrepancies.
...Throughout the investigation, the investigators had the constant impression that the witness [singular] was reliving his observations...
There is no clear reference to comparing accounts across the claimed witnesses, which would be difficult as they were probably interviewed together; the only cross-checking made is across the son's three accounts: And the investigators "do not attempt to catalogue" any "discrepancies".
It might be relevant that the son has gone full contactee, if he is the person identified as Robert L. / "Roro" by some French UFO enthusiasts, see "Rouen – CR N°16 : Robert L",
Les Repas Ufologiques website
https://lesrepasufologiques.org/com...ur-dans-une-base-extraterrestre-43-ans-apres/, which describes a "UFO dinner" at a restaurant in 2013, which Robert L. attended via Skype.
He has met at least three aliens (described as a guide, ethologist and biologist) several times, and was flown to their base, probably in the Himalayas. He spent some time there (a year?) and received alien teachings. Among these are: yoga good, nuclear explosions bad, free/ zero-point energy is available, the Apollo Moon landings might have been hoaxed and if they weren't they probably needed alien help to get back from the Moon, and were told to stay away, but the aliens don't mind us if we stick to Earth orbit.
Flown back to France in 1969 in an alien combat ship, he saw two French Mirage jet fighters follow them.
He wrote down the ID numbers visible on one, and there
was a Mirage III in service with that number- we know this because one of the diners, familiar with Robert L's story, points out it's in a museum.
He is (or was) host to an alien symbiote (me neither). And that has something to do with eating salt and avoiding dairy.
Why the makers of the
1966: Something Moved Between Continents video chose to omit these further experiences of Robert L. is anyone's guess; they're at least as interesting, and more specific, as the 1966-1967 events, and they explain where the lights came from: They're caused by aliens (who are human) operating from a base in the Indian Himalayas.
It's almost as if the makers of the video aren't in favour of full disclosure
The same account of the 2013 dinner/ Skype call is given at the Freedom UFOs website,
https://freedomufos.com/2013/10/27/...-dans-une-base-extraterrestre-43-ans-apres-2/ under the title (machine-translated) "16th UFO Dinner: Robert L., Stay in an Alien Base; 43 years later!"; this version also has copies of some of the teachings given to Robert L. (but as JPEGS, text in French).
Freedom UFOs also has a nice PDF detailing Robert's claims,
https://freedomufos.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/year-long-stay-on-et-base.pdf
Carl Sagan wrote
The Demon-Haunted World (1995, Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World) in which he outlines a "baloney detection kit" to aid critical thinking and help us determine the truth about claims. Robert L.'s claims probably wouldn't fare very well if examined with Sagan's baloney detection kit.
What about drones and stuff? Ouch. But they say things will get really bad down here (worse). 
