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Contactees are persons who claim to have experienced contact with extraterrestrials.
Contactees have typically reported that they were given messages or
profound wisdom by extraterrestrial beings, and that they were
compelled to share these messages. These claimed encounters are often
described as ongoing, but some contactees claim to have had as few as a
single encounter.
As a cultural phenomenon, contactees
perhaps had their greatest notoriety from the late 1940s to the late
1950s, but individuals continue to make similar claims in the present,
such as Swiss cult leader Billy Meier. Some have shared their messages with small groups of followers, and many have issued newsletters or spoken at UFO conventions.
The stories of contactees contain much material that has not stood the test of time, such as claims that there are unknown planets within this solar system, or that the planets of our solar system are inhabited by so-called "Space Brothers", beings physically similar to humans but more spiritually evolved. Certainly at least some of the claims were fraudulent
The contactee movement has seen serious
attention from academics and mainstream scholars. Among the earliest
was the classic 1956 study, When Prophecy Fails by Leon Festinger,
et al., which included information about, and analysis of, contactee
groups. Additionally, there have been at least two university-level
anthologies of scientific papers regarding the contactee movements (see
sources below). Jenny Randles and Peter Houghe have written that "The contactee movement is a rich treat for anthropologists, sticky with sincere and sincerely deluded individuals. Were the contactees in touch with anything other than their own internal fantasies?"
Contactee accounts are generally different from those who allege alien abduction,
in that while contactees usually describe beneficial experiences
involving human-like aliens, abductees rarely describe their
experiences positively. |
Astronomer J. Allen Hynek
described Contactees as asserting "the visitation to the earth of
generally benign beings whose ostensible purpose is to communicate
(generally to a relatively few selected and favored persons — almost
invariably without witnesses) messages of 'cosmic importance'. These
chosen recipients generally have repeated contact experiences,
involving additional messages. The transmission of such messages to
willing and uncritical true believers frequently, in turn, leads to
the formation of a flying saucer cult,
with the 'communicator' or 'contactee' the willing and obvious cult
leader. Although relatively few in number, such flying saucer
advocates have by their irrational acts strongly influenced public
opinion." [3]Contactees became a cultural phenomona in
the 1940s and continued throughout the 1950s and 1960s, often giving
lecture and writing books about their experience, and in some cases
developing cult-like
followings. Although the cultural impact of contactees has since
declined, the phenomona still exists today. Skeptics hold that such
'contactees' are deluded or dishonest in their claims. Writer Susan Clancy[4],
wrote that such claims are “false memories” concocted out of a “blend
of fantasy-proneness, memory distortion, culturally available
scripts, sleep hallucinations, and scientific illiteracy.”
Contactees usually portrayed the "Space Brothers" as more or less identical in appearance and mannerisms to humans.
The Brothers are also almost invariably reported as disturbed by the
violence, crime and wars that infest the earth, and by the possession
of various earth nations of nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.
However, despite their global concerns, the "Space Brothers" never
landed their flying saucers in front of the United Nations building, the White House or the Kremlin
to spread their message. Instead, they invariably selected obscure
people (dishwashers, road crew members, assembly-line workers,
sign-painters and taxi-drivers), often having a long prior history of
involvement with mystical sects.
Almost every contactee asserts that the urgent message of the Space
Brothers is religious rather than technical; extraterrestrial
religions as reported by the contactees are generally difficult to
distinguish from a blend of Christianity and Theosophy.
Peebles[5] summarizes the common features of many contactee claims:
- Certain humans have had personal and/or mental contact with friendly, completely human-appearing space aliens.
- The contactees have also flown aboard flying saucers, and traveled into space and to other planets.
- The Space Brothers invariably come from Utopian societies which are free of war, death, crime, disease, or any other vexing human problem.
- The Space Brothers want to help mankind solve its problems, to stop nuclear testing and prevent the otherwise inevitable destruction of the human race.
- This will be accomplished very simply by the brotherhood spreading a message of love and brotherhood across the world.
- Other sinister beings, the Men in Black, use threats and force to continue the cover-up of UFOs and suppress the message of hope.
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Though the word contactee
was not in common use until the 1950s, the authors of the anthologies
noted in "sources" below use the term to describe persons whose
claims occurred centuries before the UFO era, attempting to depict
them as a part of the same tradition.
Though not linked to flying saucers or odd
aerial lights, it is perhaps worth noting that there is a long
history of claims of contact with non-earthly intelligences. The
founding revelations of many of the world's religions involve contact
between the founder and a supernatural source of wisdom, such as a god
in human form or an angel.
In this context, it might be expected that most of the 1950s
contactees would form their own religions, with the contactee as sole
spiritual leader, and that is just what happened, almost invariably.
As early as the 1700s, people like Emanuel Swedenborg were claiming to be in psychic contact with inhabitants of other planets. 1758 saw the publication of Concerning Earths in the Solar System, in which Swedenborg detailed his alleged journeys to the inhabited planets. J. Gordon Melton
notes that Swedenborg's planetary tour stops at Saturn, the furthest
planet known during Swedenborg's era — he did not visit Uranus,
Neptune or Pluto.[6]
Later, Helena Blavatsky would make claims similar to Swedenborg's.
In 1891, Thomas Blott's book The Man From Mars
was published. The author claimed to have met a Martian in Kentucky.
Unusually for an early contactee, Blott reported that the Martian
communicated not via telepathy, but in English.
Another early contactee book, of sorts, was From India To The Planet Mars by Theodore Flournoy
(1900). Flournoy detailed the claims of Helene Smith, who, whilst in a
trance, dictated information gleaned from her psychic visits to the
planet Mars — including a Martian alphabet and language
she could write and speak. Flournoy determined that Smith's claims
were spurious, based on fantasy and imagination. Her "Martian"
language was simply a garbled version of French. |
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Two of the earliest contactees in the modern sense were William Magoon and Guy Ballard (the latter a follower of Madame Blavatsky).
Magoon's book William Magoon: Psychic and Healer
was published in 1930. He claimed that, in the early 1900s, he had
been unexpectedly and instantaneously transported to Mars. The planet
was essentially earth-like, with cities and wilderness. The
inhabitants had radio and automobiles. Though they were invisible, Magoon sensed their presences.
Though Magoon was obscure, Ballard would have more impact via the I Am
movement he established. In 1935, Ballard claimed that, several years
earlier, he and over 100 others witnessed the appearance of 12
Venusians in a cavern beneath Mount Shasta. The Venusians played music for the audience, said Ballard, then showed the crowd a large mirror-like
device that displayed images of life on Venus. The Venusians then
allegedly reported that the earth would suffer through an era of
tension and warfare, followed by worldwide peace and goodwill.
George Adamski,
who would later become probably the most prominent contactee of the
UFO era, was one contactee with an earlier interest in the occult.
Adamski founded the Royal Order of Tibet in the 1930s. Writes Michael
Bakun, "His [later] messages from the Venusians sounded suspiciously
like his own earlier occult teachings."[8]
Christopher Partridge notes, importantly, that the pre-1947 contactees "do not involve UFOs."[9] Rather, he suggests that an existing tradition of extraterrestrial contact via seances and psychic means promptly incorporated the flying-saucer mythos when it arrived. |
Contactees in the UFO era |
The 1947 report of Kenneth Arnold
sparked widespread interest in flying saucers, and before long,
people were claiming to have been in contact with flying saucer
inhabitants.
There was a nearly-continuous series of contactees, beginning with George Adamski in 1952. Radio host John Nebel
interviewed many contactees on his program during this era. The
stereotypical contactee account in these days involved not just
conversations with friendly, human-appearing spacemen
but visits inside their flying saucers, and rides to large "Mother
Ships" in Earth orbit, and even jaunts to the moon, Mars, Venus,
Jupiter and Saturn.
By the late 1950s, many contactees were no
longer claiming to have been physically visited by aliens; rather,
they were more often in psychic contact with the spacemen, who passed their messages on to people in trances. However, alien contact via Ouija board, spirit mediums and channelling was fairly common even in the early 1950s. Eventually, there was a complicated crossover with the later "psychic channeling" movement, which found a degree of renewed popularity beginning in the late 1960s.
In support of their claims, early 1950s
contactees often produced photographs of the alleged flying saucers or
their occupants. A number of photos of a "Venusian scout ship" by George Adamski
and identified by him as a typical extraterrestrial flying saucer
were noted to bear a suspicious resemblance to a type of once commonly
available chicken egg incubator, complete with three light bulbs
which Adamski said were "landing gear."[10]
For over two decades, contactee George Van Tassel hosted the annual "Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention" in the Mojave Desert.[11] Another 1950s contactee, Buck Nelson, held a similar convention in the Ozarks of Missouri up until 1965.
Though contactees faded from mainstream consciousness, people continued making claims of extraterrestrial contact.
Swiss cult leader Billy Meier
has managed to include every one of the classic 1950s contactees
within his own religious framework, and has made room for tens of
thousands more, as this reported exchange between Meier and one of his
extraterrestrial contacts indicates: "Meier: ... If you allow, I want
to ask you about some matters respecting contacts. How many
contactees exist in the world today...?" "Ptaah: The exact number of
real contactees on Earth is presently 17,422 (1975). They are
scattered over all your states and lands. Of that number only a few
percent come to public attention. Many of them are working according to
our advice at different labors and tasks.... In different cases such
persons are also having contacts with us without being informed that
we do not belong to Earth.... Of all these 17,422 contactees (the
number increases continuously) only a few hundred are known
publicly...."
Examples since the 1990s include the Heaven's Gate group (whose members committed mass suicide) and the Raelian Movement, which earned international attention with their claims of successful human cloning. |
Response to contactee claims |
Though
contactees earned a degree of mainstream attention, most mainstream
observers seem to have concluded that the claimants were either hoaxers or mentally ill.
Even in ufology — itself subject to at best very limited and sporadic mainstream scientific or academic
interest — contactees were generally seen as the lunatic fringe, and
"serious" ufologists subsequently avoided the subject, for fear it
would harm their attempts at "serious" study of the UFO phenomenon
(Sheaffer 1986:17; 1998:34-35). Jacques Vallée notes that "No serious investigator has ever been very worried by the claims of 'contactees.'"[12]
Some time after the phenomenon had waned, Temple University historian David Michael Jacobs
noted a few interesting facts: the accounts of the prominent
contactees grew ever more elaborate, and as new claimants gained
notoriety, they typically backdated their first encounter, claiming it
occurred earlier than anyone else's. Jacobs speculates that this was
an attempt to gain a degree of "authenticity" to trump other
contactees. |
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| (April 17, 1891 – April 23, 1965) was a Polish-born American citizen who became widely known in ufology circles, and to some degree in popular culture, after he claimed to have photographed ships from other planets, met with friendly Nordic alien "Space Brothers", and to have taken flights with them. The first of the so-called contactees of the 1950s, he styled himself to be a "philosopher, teacher, student and saucer researcher." though was often considered to be deluded or a fraud.
On October 9, 1946, during a meteor shower,
Adamski and some friends claimed that while they were at the Palomar
Gardens' campground, they witnessed a large cigar-shaped "mother ship." In
1947, Adamski took a photograph of what he claimed was the 1946
cigar-shaped "mother ship" crossing in front of the moon over Palomar
Gardens.
On May 29, 1950 Adamski took a photograph of what he alleged to be six unidentified objects in the sky, which appeared to be flying in formation. Adamski's May 29, 1950 UFO photograph was depicted in an August 1978 commemorative stamp issued by the island nation of Grenada in order to mark the "Year of UFOs".
On November 20, 1952 Adamski and several friends were in the Colorado Desert near the town of Desert Center, California
when they are said to have seen a large submarine-shaped object
hovering in the sky. Believing that the ship was looking for him,
Adamski is said to have left his friends and to have headed away from
the main road. Shortly afterwards, according to Adamski's accounts, a
scout ship made of a type of translucent metal landed close to him, and its pilot, a Venusian called Orthon, disembarked and sought him out.
Adamski described Orthon as being a medium height humanoid, with long-blond hair, and tanned skin, and as wearing reddish-brown shoes, though, as Adamski added, "his trousers were not like mine". Adamski said Orthon communicated with him via telepathy and through hand signals. During
their conversation, Orthon is said to have warned of the dangers of
nuclear war and to have arranged for Adamski to be taken on a trip to
see the solar system including the planet Venus, the location where Mrs. Adamski had been reincarnated. Adamski
said that Orthon had refused to allow himself to be photographed, and
instead asked Adamski to provide him with a blank photographic plate,
which Adamski says that he gave him. When Orthon left, Adamski said that he and George Hunt Williamson were able to take plaster casts of Orthon's footprints, and that the prints contained mysterious symbols.
Orthon is said to have returned the plate
to Adamski on December 13, 1952, at which point it was found to
contain new strange symbols.
It was during this meeting that Adamski is said to have taken a now
famous UFO photograph using his 6-inch (150 mm) telescope.The
picture has since been identified to be a streetlight.
In 1954, Desmond Leslie
is said to have witnessed several UFOs with Adamski while visiting
him in California. He described one of them in a letter he sent to his
wife while he was in San Diego:
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... a beautiful golden ship in the sunset, but brighter than the sunset ... It slowly faded out, the way they do. |
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In 1957 Adamski was the victim of a hoax letter sent by James W. Moseley.
The letter was signed by the fictional "R.E. Straith", a
representative of the non-existent "Cultural Exchange Committee" of
the U.S. State Department.
Straith wrote that the U.S. Government knew that Adamski had actually
spoken to extraterrestrials in a California desert in 1952, and that a
group of highly-placed government officials planned on public
corroboration of Adamski's story. Adamski was proud of this
endorsement and showed it around to bolster his claims (Moseley & Pflock 2002:124-27, 180).
In May 1959, Adamski received a letter
from the head of the Dutch Unidentified Flying Objects Society
informing him that she had been contacted by officials at the palace
of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, and "that the Queen would like to receive you."
Adamski informed a London newspaper about the invitation, which
prompted the court and cabinet to request that the queen cancel her
meeting with Adamski, but the queen went ahead with the meeting saying
that, "A hostess cannot slam the door in the face of her guests." After
the meeting, Dutch Aeronautical Association president Cornelis Kolff
said, "The Queen showed an extraordinary interest in the whole
subject." On May 21, 1959, the
Rockford Register published an article on Adamski's visit with Queen
Juliana and what was rumored to be an upcoming visit with Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
Adamski said that the photographs of the far side of the Moon that were taken by the Soviet lunar probe Luna 3 in 1959 were fake and that there were cities, trees, and snow-capped mountains there instead.
In 1962, Adamski's reputation began to decline after he
announced that he would be going to a conference on the planet Saturn. In 1963, Adamski claimed that he had a secret meeting with Pope John XXIII and that he had received a "Golden Medal of Honor" from the Pope. Adamski,
at the request of the extraterrestrials he was allegedly in contact
with, met with the Pope in order to request a "final agreement" from
him because of his decision not to communicate directly with any
extraterrestrials, and also to offer him a liquid substance in order
to save him from gastric enteritis that he suffered from, which would later become acute peritonitis.
On April 23, 1965 at the age of 74, Adamski died of a heart attack in Maryland. |
Criticism |
His claims inspired a British copycat who went under the name Cedric Allingham. Yet, his one-time co-author Desmond Leslie
wrote in 1970: "Of all the contactees, Adamski attracted the most
controversy and odium; and none but a man of his strength of character
could have survived the onslaught."
The most common arguments contrary to Adamski's claims forwarded by skeptics is that the planet Venus
is unable to sustain intelligent life due to its environmental
conditions. These conditions include an atmospheric pressure at the
planet's surface which is 92 times that of the Earth, clouds composed
of sulfuric acid
and an average surface temperature of 461.85 °C. Of course, no
one could live under the surface of the planet, and as a result most
consider Adamski's claims to be a scientific impossibility.
Inside The Space Ships is considered by some to be a "remake" of a science-fiction book, ghost written by Lucy McGinnis, entitled Pioneers of Space
which Adamski wrote in 1949. His often published photo of a flying
saucer from 1952 has been identified (by the chairman of the British
UFO organization in the 1970s) as the top of an Italian made
ice-machine used in his café[citation needed], a streetlight (see above), as well as the top of a chicken brooder. However, "Cecil B. de Mille's top trick photographer, Pev Marley,
declared that if Adamski's pictures were fakes they were the best he
had ever seen, while in England fourteen experts from the J. Arthur Rank company concluded that the object photographed was either real, or a full-scale model." |
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| (born August 17 1923, Poland) was a coal miner at Lofthouse Colliery, who mysteriously disappeared from his Tingley home in June 1980. His body was found on top of a large stack of anthracite in Todmorden. He had lived in Tingley since 1960, having married Leokadia Kowalska in 1951 in West Yorkshire. She had multiple sclerosis in later life. |
Disappearance |
Zigmund set out to get some potatoes
at 15:30 on June 6 1980. The next day he was due to attend a family
wedding, which he was much looking forward to. His body was found five
days later in Todmorden next to a railway line on the afternoon of
Wednesday June 11 at 15:45 by Trevor Parker, the son of the owner of
the Tomlin's coal yard. The yard had not been used since 11;00am that
morning, and the body had not been seen at that time; Mr Parker had
arrived at 8:00. At 16:10 a police officer, Alan Godfrey, attended the scene, with a colleague. On examination, it was found he had died of a heart attack
and had peculiar burns on his neck and shoulders. His clothes were in
good condition although the shirt was removed. He had not attended any
hospitals in the missing five days and had only been on the anthracite
a few hours before he was found. It appeared that neither had he
slept rough in the intervening days and he had been eating healthily,
and that no struggle had taken place. The post mortem was carried out
at 21:15 in Hebden Bridge
by Dr Alan Edwards, a consultant pathologist at the Royal Halifax
Infirmary. He found that Adamski's death took place between 11:00 and
13:00 that day. The burn on his neck had been there two days before
his death, and had had a peculiar ointment applied that forensic scientists could not identify.
There was some deliberation over the cause of his death
as his death was not registered until the autumn of 1980. The coroner
was James Turnbull.
John Hanson and David Sankey of BUFORA, the British UFO
Research Association, carried out an investigation in 2005. Citing
interviews with Adamski's relatives, they claimed that he was not, in
fact, looking forward to the god-daughter's wedding due to a feud with
a family member. The unnamed family member's wife had taken out a
restraining order against him, and moved in with Adamski's wife.
Hanson and Sankey reported that Adamski's family suspected the man had
kidnapped Zigmund and held him in a shed, where he suffered a heart
attack. |
Connections with UFOs |
Zigmund shared a surname with George Adamski, a well-known UFO researcher and contactee. He was also Polish and lived in the United States. The policeman who found him, Alan Godfrey would have an encounter six months later on November 28 at 5:00 with a UFO on Burnley Road
(A646) in Todmorden as he was driving his car on duty. This was one
mile from the coal yard. He could not account for fifteen minutes of his
time. Under hypnosis through assistance with Manchester-based MUFORA in 1981, he claimed he had been abducted.
The Sunday Mirror on September 27 1981 published the story on its front page as a UFO abduction, which was written by John Sheard and Stewart Bonney. |
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| (24 August 1916 – 16 January 2006) was an American contactee
who claimed contact with extraterrestrial beings. He was one of the
more obscure members of the 1950s wave of contactees who followed George Adamski. |
Early life |
Born in the state of Washington, Aho one of seven children of Finnish homesteaders, and worked for most of his life as a logger.
Like Howard Menger,
Aho claimed to have been in contact with humanoid space aliens since
childhood, in his case the age of 12. He mainly spoke about a contact
occurring in 1957, the year he claimed to have been initiated as a
"Cosmic Master of Wisdom" after attending contactee George Van Tassel's Giant Rock Interplanetary Space Craft Convention.
Aho said a telepathic summons led him into the desert where a saucer
appeared and a voice ordered him to go forth and create his own yearly
convention in his home state of Washington. |
Contactee career |
Aho and fellow 1957 contactee Reinhold O. Schmidt
went on the lecture circuit together in California, and their
double-header lectures continued until Schmidt was arrested for and
convicted of grand theft. Aho's presentations tended to emphasize his
military service in World War II, and spent very little time on
"spiritual revelations" he had received from the Space Brothers, either
directly or through later sessions with a spirit medium. Aho tended to
refer to himself as "Major W. S. Aho," inviting confusion with Major Donald E. Keyhoe, a UFO researcher and writer who thought UFOs were real, but held contactees in low regard.
Aho soon fell under the spell of another one-time Adamski follower, Otis T. Carr. Carr claimed to have built a full-size flying saucer operating on authentic Adamskian or Teslarian
"magnetic" principles, and after a suitable amount of money had been
collected from gullible elderly attendees at the lectures of Aho and
Carr, they announced the Carr saucer, piloted by Carr and Aho, would
take off from a fairground in front of thousands of witnesses and fly
to the moon, returning with incontrovertible proof of the trip.
Criminal charges against both Aho and Carr resulted from the
inevitable public fiasco, but Aho was judged to be an innocent dupe. |
Cult established and alter life |
Like almost all of the 1950s contactees, including George Adamski, Truman Bethurum, Daniel Fry, George King and many others, Aho did get around to founding his own religious cult, based on the teachings of the Space Brothers: in Aho's case, the Church of the New Age, in Seattle, Washington. Following the instructions of the Space Brothers, Aho's yearly convention held near the entrance to Mount Rainier National Park, in the so-called Spacecraft Protective Landing Area for Advancement of Science and Humanities (SPLAASH), created in honor of Kenneth Arnold, tended to emphasize New Age theories of various kinds rather than being strictly a meeting-place for flying saucer fans.
Aho spent the last decade of his life in Gardnerville, Nevada. He died on January 16, 2006 in Carson City, Nevada |
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Cedric Allingham was a British contactee of the 1950s, whose claims to have encountered the pilot of a Martian spacecraft were published in 1954 as Flying Saucer from Mars.
Later writers have speculated that not
only were Allingham's experiences fabricated, but that Allingham
himself never existed, being an elaborate hoax perpetrated by a well-known media figure. |
'Biography' of Allingham |
Allingham's book stated that he had been born in 1922 in Bombay, and educated in England and South Africa. He had taken up amateur astronomy while posted to the Middle East with the RAOC, and subsequently travelled around Britain indulging his hobbies of bird-watching and caravan holidays while making a living as a writer of thrillers.
Allingham made the remarkable claim that on 18 February 1954, while on holiday near Lossiemouth, he had encountered a flying saucer and communicated with its pilot by means of hand gestures and telepathy. The spaceman had indicated that he came from Mars, and that he had also visited Venus and the Moon.
As supporting evidence, Allingham took a number of blurry photographs
of the saucer and one of its occupant (pictured from the rear). He
also claimed that a fisherman named James Duncan had witnessed the
event from a nearby hill, providing a signed statement which was
reproduced in the book.
Coming soon after the dramatic claims of George Adamski, Allingham's book attracted a fair amount of popular and media attention. TIME devoted a short piece to it early in 1955. Commenting that Allingham's photograph of a Martian looked "very like a crofter with galluses flapping", the writer added:
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England's eagerest astronauts, the slide-rule devotees of the British Interplanetary Society,
hoot at the book's "scientific" label. Politely, they suggest that
Author Allingham has a highly susceptible imagination or that somebody
has elaborately hoaxed him. But Allingham, now undergoing lung
treatment at a Swiss sanatorium, cares little if critics point out that saucer pictures have been faked in the past with lampshades, garbage-can covers and trapshooting targets tossed in the air. Such books as his apparently answer a deep and widespread yearning for marvels. |
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—TIME, Meeting on the Moor, 14 February 1955[2] |
Members of the flying saucer clubs popular
at the time made attempts to interview Allingham, but both he and
James Duncan proved remarkably elusive. Allingham was said to have
delivered a lecture to a UFO group in Tunbridge Wells, at which Lord Dowding (former Air Chief Marshal of the RAF during World War II
and a prominent UFO believer) stated he was present: "We got Mr.
Cedric Allingham [...] to lecture to our local Flying Saucer Club, and
we were all strongly impressed that he was telling the truth about
his actual experiences, although we felt that he might have been
mistaken in some of the conclusions which he drew from his interview".[3]
The writer Robert Chapman made several attempts to trace Duncan, and
to contact Allingham through his publishers, who stated firstly that
Allingham was undergoing medical treatment in Switzerland, and then
that he had died there. Chapman was only able to confirm that
Allingham had given the previously mentioned lecture in Sussex, at which the well-known broadcaster, astronomer and noted UFO skeptic Patrick Moore claimed to have met him.[4]
Unable to locate either Duncan or Allingham, and therefore suspecting
some form of hoax, Chapman regretfully concluded that "if there was
no James Duncan and [thus] no visitor from Mars, perhaps there was no
Cedric Allingham either". |
A hoax? |
Progress on unravelling the mystery came in 1986 as a result of research by Christopher Allan and Steuart Campbell, published in the Fortean journal Magonia. In Flying Saucer from Moore's?, they argued that the prose of Allingham's book showed significant similarities to the writing of Patrick Moore. Thanks
to further enquiries to Allingham's publisher, they were able to
trace a friend of Moore, Peter Davies, who eventually admitted that he
had co-written the book with another, unnamed individual. Davies also
claimed that the talk at the UFO club given by 'Allingham' had in
fact been given by himself while wearing a false moustache. Moore has
admitted to being invited, by Lord Dowding, to be a guest at this
meeting. These and other clues led Allan and Campbell to identify
Patrick Moore as the main culprit in a hoax intended to expose the
gullibility and uncritical research methods of British ufologists, Flying Saucer from Mars being a partial parody of Flying Saucers Have Landed, the 1953 book by Adamski and Desmond Leslie.
Further articles on Moore's involvement
appeared in "The Star", July 28, 1986 and the 'Feedback' page of "New
Scientist" Aug 14, 1986.
Moore, however, immediately denied being
responsible for Allingham's book, and threatened to take legal action
against anyone suggesting otherwise, although he took no such action
on any of the three articles mentioned above. At the time of writing
(2008) he has never confirmed his involvement in the affair, even
though the telescope shown in the book's frontispiece bears a remarkable
resemblance to his own 12½-inch reflectior[1]. |
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Angelucci claimed that he suffered from
poor health and extreme nervousness for most of his life, and
eventually moved for health-related reasons from Trenton, New Jersey to California in 1948, where he got a job on the assembly line at the Lockheed aircraft plant in Burbank. Fellow contactee George Van Tassel was also employed for a time at this plant.
In his books, Angelucci says he was particularly terrified of thunderstorms
and was attracted to California because he heard thunderstorms were
very rare there. Angelucci wrote the first version of his
pseudoscientific account of matter, energy and life, The Nature of Infinite Entities in 1952, based on "research" done earlier in Trenton, including the launching of a giant cluster of weather balloons.
Beginning in the summer of 1952, according to Angelucci in his book The Secret of the Saucers (1955), he began to encounter flying saucers and their friendly human-appearing pilots during his drives home from the aircraft plant. These superhuman space people were handsome, often transparent and highly spiritual. Eventually Angelucci was taken in an unmanned saucer to earth orbit,
where he saw a giant "mother ship" drift past a porthole. He also
described having experienced a "missing time" episode and eventually
remembered living for a week in the body of "space brother" Neptune, in a more evolved society on "the largest asteroid," the remains of a destroyed planet, while his usual body wandered around the aircraft plant in a daze.
In his later book, The Son of the Sun,
Angelucci related an account that he claimed had been told him by a
medical doctor calling himself Adam, whose experiences were similar to
Angelucci's. He also published several pamphlets on space-brotherly
themes, such as "Million Year Prophecy" (1959), "Concrete Evidence"
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(August 21, 1898 – May 21, 1969) was the second of the classic 1950s contactees, individuals who claimed to have spoken with humanoid aliens
and entered or ridden on their flying saucers. His revelations seemed
fairly directly inspired by his immediate forerunner, George Adamski.
Bethurum was born in Gavalin, California,
and in the early 1950s worked as a mechanic on a road-building crew.
Unlike most road-crew members, however, he moonlighted as a fortune
teller and spiritual advisor. In 1953 Bethurum first published
magazine and newspaper (Redondo Beach Daily Breeze, September 25, 1953) accounts of being contacted about a dozen different times by the humanoid crew
of a landed flying saucer, and repeatedly conversing with its
stunningly lovely female captain, Aura Rhanes. Saucer and crew, who
spoke colloquial English, came from the unknown planet Clarion, which
from the earth, in abject defiance of the laws of planetary motion,
always remains out of sight behind our moon. The Clarionites were
smaller than humans, lived for 1000 years, and were all good
Christians who attended church every Sunday. A subsequent 1954 book, Aboard a Flying Saucer, gave more details of Bethurum's suffering at the hands of skeptics, but few other details of Clarion and its people.
Most contactees of this period became (or already were) leaders of new religious movements, including George Adamski, George Van Tassel, Daniel Fry, George King
and many others. Bethurum followed the same pattern, quitting his job
and telling followers - immediately after the publication of his book
- that the space people had commanded him to create a religious
commune, with himself as spiritual leader. A commune, the Sanctuary of Thought,
was subsequently created near Prescott, Arizona. While Bethurum and
his group have a few followers to this day, most self-proclaimed UFO
researchers of the 1950s dismissed him as a charlatan--- he refused
lie-detector examinations, and also refused to provide physical
evidence he claimed to possess, such as supposedly unique items given
to him by Captain Aura Rhanes.
Some of Bethurum's later books include The Voice of the Planet Clarion (1957), Facing Reality (1958), and The People of the Planet Clarion
(1970), published after his death. The first 44 pages of the final
book are an autobiography of Bethurum covering his life up to 1953. In
this last book he also mentions that astronomers had told him that
Clarion could not possibly orbit either sun or earth in such a way as
to remain behind the moon as seen from earth, and that Captain Rhanes
must have meant to say Clarion is in the same orbit as our earth, but
always behind the sun from our viewpoint. It has been known
since the 1960s that no planet exists in either spot. Earlier, in
1954, Bethurum had told audiences during his lectures that Rhanes
probably meant Clarion was in another solar system.
An afterword to The People of the Planet Clarion
by artist Columba Krebs, who helped Bethurum with all three of his
later books, notes that Bethurum seemed obsessed by Captain Rhanes,
and had hired a secretary who (according to Bethurum) resembled her
very closely. Bethurum himself repeatedly remarked in his many public
lectures that his second wife had divorced him in 1955 mainly due to
jealousy of Captain Rhanes. He later married a third time, with the
wedding taking place at one of George Van Tassel's yearly Giant Rock Spacecraft Conventions. |
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The story of James
Cooke entered in ufology literature by the good care of English
eccentric Brinsley Le Poer Trench, Earl of Chancarty, who reported about
it in the Flying Saucer Review in 1958. It was picked up later by
journalist/paranormalist John Keel who loved this kind of twaddles; but
no serious ufologist put it forth as an authentic encounter with
extraterrestrials. The fact is that the American so-called "contactee"
George Adamski had made followers, and much more people than it is
generally thought, in the Fifties, also invented stories of their
visits of some home planet of "space men", almost invariably bringing
back an assuaging message of universal peace and warnings in
connection with the madness of the men.
Cooke's story, like quantity of similar stories,
obviously and with reasons, was not believed by the serious ufologists
of his time; thus, almost forgotten, it survives nowadays as an
"example" in the so-called "skeptic" UFO literature, aimed at pointing
how silly ufology and extraterrestrial encounters are supposed to be,
and also remains as a "case" to illustrate weird thesis of the
Keel/Vallée school of though, which asks to view it not just as a then
fashionable fable, or attempt at getting publicity, or imaginary
starting point for UFO cults, but as "interventions" of some generally
undefined "superior" or "evil" earthly intelligence of some parallel
world or other realm, supposed to "manipulate" the very fabric or
reality.
James Cooke, a resident of Runcorn, Cheshire, England,
had already told several alleged flying saucers sightings, when he
became part of the "contactee" crowd by claiming that on September 6,
1957, he received, by telepathy, the injunction to go to the top of
the hill of Runcorn, which was opposite the city of the same name, and
said he did just this, in the middle of the night, 02:15 a.m. on
September 7, 1957.
His history is that there, he saw a spaceship in
blinding light arriving, coming to hover a few inches above
ground-level at some 20 meters in front of him, or less, according to
certain sources. The apparatus changed colors from blue to white, then
blue again, then dark red.
A slope or staircase with balustrade emerged from this
saucer, and a voice told him to enter, by jumping over the ramp
without touching it, for the ground was wet of rain. Cooke, hardly
startled, willingly did so, thus this case is not "the first alien
abduction in England" that some writers thought it was.
Inside the craft, a strong light reigns, without shade,
coming from everywhere at the same time, with no visible source. He
is commanded to strip himself naked, does so readily, then asked to
slip into a kind of plastic suit. He then went into another spaceship
that had to be there somewhere, and inside, met a crew of more than 20
men of space, similar to the men, but much taller since 2.10 meters
in height, with well-built bodies, black hair, blue uniforms.
As usually in such stories, these people take him along
in a saucer trip towards their planet of origin, "Zomdic", orbiting
another star or another galaxy, depending on ufological sources. He
visits Zomdic, describing its vegetation as yellow instead of green,
and the residents hermaphrodites - not bisexual as it will be reported
later. "Zomdic" is governed by Wise Seniors, a Master, and as it
should be, Cooke would come back from his visit with a teaching to
propagate to Earthlings:
"The inhabitants of your planet will upset the balance
if they persist in using force instead of harmony. Warn them of the
danger."
Brought back home 45 hours after his departure for
Zomdic, Cooke thought to make his story sound more true to specify
than he forgot to jump over the saucer's ramp as requested when
boarding, which caused him an electric shock: indeed the vessels of
Zomdic function by electrifying the air, and this is besides the
reason why they do not function well in wet weather and why your are
not supposed to touch the ramp when the air is damp - Zomdiciens could
however think of insulating the ramp, if they are so wise. As a
physiological proof, he claimed that others saw the burns that this
caused on him.
A little dubitative, he indicated, as for the chance of
success, or perhaps as of the relevance or the interest of the
extraterrestrials' preaching, reassured by the space man, Cooke then
set up "The Church of Aquarius", a UFO cult having its Church in
Runcorn. He sat there as a messenger and ambassador of the space men
of Zomdic, receiving by telepathy their wise words of peace for the
benefit of an audience about which John Keel told it was so numerous
that he had to open a second Church in the city, the story not
specifying if he was gifted of bilocation to sit there too.
It is claimed that this UFO cult lasted ten years
there, and that Cooke "disappeared" in a puff of mystery according to
certain sources, or quite simply made himself forgotten - the public
interest in the "contactees" had vaned at the end of the Sixties, and
it was certainly a wise inspiration of his to "disappear" from public
view. |
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| (Verdon Township, Minnesota, July 19, 1908 - Alamogordo, New Mexico, December 20, 1992) was an American contactee who claimed he had multiple contacts with an alien and took a ride in a remotely piloted alien spacecraft on July 4, 1949. |
Fry's White Sands incident |
| From the White Sands Proving Ground
in New Mexico where he worked, Fry had planned to join the July 4,
1949 evening festivities in nearby Las Cruces but missed the last bus.
Finding the Bachelor Officers Quarters (BOQ) where he stayed too hot,
he decided to explore a path in the desert he had never been down.
There, Fry claimed a 30 foot (10M) diameter, 16 foot (5M) high "oblate spheroid" landed in front of him, and he talked remotely with the pilot who operated the craft from a "mother ship" 900 miles (1400 km) above Earth. Fry claimed he was invited aboard and flown over New York City and back in 30 minutes.[1] During the flight and subsequent meetings, Fry asserted that he talked with the pilot named Alan, (pronounced "a-lawn"[2]) who gave Fry information on physics, the pre-history of earth including Atlantis and Lemuria and the foundations of civilization. |
Truth or fiction |
Shortly after Fry went public with his story in 1954, he failed a lie detector examination about his claims[3][4]. Fry also took photos and 16 mm film of supposed UFOs, but subsequent analysis[5] of the original footage has provided strong evidence the UFOs were fake.
Later, Fry received a doctorate, however the "degree" was from a mail-order outfit in London, England called Saint Andrew College and was a "Doctorate of Cosmism"[6].
Many years later, Fry also changed the date the event took place from July 4, 1950 to July 4, 1949.[7]
Swiss UFO contactee Billy Meier has identified Daniel Fry as an authentic contactee [8]. nderstanding Inc.
In 1954, Fry published his first book called "The White
Sands Incident" and a year later started an organization called
"Understanding" which published a monthly newsletter by the same name.
Understanding was eventually incorporated as a non-profit
corporation, which was described in a 1959 pamphlet as " From a
start of nine members at El Monte, California in 1955, Understanding
Inc., has grown into an international organization of more than sixty
units and many members-at-large throughout the world. These units and
members have sponsored hundreds of lectures and meetings, circulated
thousands of books and magazines to reach many people in the spirit of
'bringing about a greater degree of understanding among all the
peoples of the earth and preparing them for their eventual inevitable
meetings with other races in space. " [9]
Using Alan's ideas as a foundation, Understanding Inc.
served to spread alternative social and spiritual ideas by speeches,
meetings and in the newsletter. The newsletter, first published in
1956, was typically about 20 pages long, published monthly and ran for
240+ issues until 1979.
Understanding Inc. peaked in the early sixties with
about 1,500 paid members and 60 or so "Units" in America. Mid-way
through its waning years in 1974, Understanding was donated[10] 55 acres (220,000 m²) of land including eight buildings near Tonopah,
Arizona by Enid Smith. The buildings, first intended as a religious
college, had the ironic feature of being round and saucer shaped.
Understanding Inc. had fully taken the property over by 1976 but given
Daniel's tight finances during his retirement and the falling
Understanding membership, the property fell into disrepair. In late
September and early October 1978, the kitchen and the library were
burned to the ground by an arsonist and never rebuilt.
Understanding Inc. was considered by some to be a cult[11][12], but Daniel was clear it wasn't in a 1969 Daily Courier article "The
group is not mystic, he says, and is not a flying saucer watching
organization although some members hold definite beliefs and interests
in both areas. Understanding Inc. which is a non-profit, tax exempt
corporation, works on the principles that there is nothing that
members are required to believe or accept or do, Dr. Fry said." [13]
During the early 1970s, Professor Robert S. Ellwood of the University
of Southern California studied many new and unconventional religious
and spiritual groups in the United States. During his research, he
attended a meeting held in Inglewood, California
by members of Understanding, Inc. and noted that, "There is no
particular religious practice connected with the meeting, although
interestingly the New Age Prayer derived from the Alice Bailey writings is used as an invocation." [14]
From 1954 onward, with little reimbursement, Fry gave
thousands of lectures to organizations such as service clubs, radio
and television stations. He also published other books such as "Atoms,
Galaxies and Understanding", "To Men of Earth", "Steps to the Stars",
"Curve of Development", "Can God Fill Teeth?" and "Verse and Worse".
He, along with other contactees would attend the yearly Spacecraft
Convention at Giant Rock in Yucca Valley for the next twenty years,
hosted by a friend and fellow contactee, George Van Tassel. |
Key points in Fry's life |
The first one was in late 1919 when Emily, Daniel's Grandmother who was his sole guardian, made the decision to move to South Pasadena, California
to be near Daniel's uncle, Walter. Daniel would live in and around
the South Pasadena area for the next 35 years and get in on the ground
floor of the early rocket research which Pasadena was host to in the
40s and 50s.
The next important point was in 1949. After the war,
when there were massive layoffs, Daniel had moved to Oregon to scrape
out an existence. But because of Daniel's work with Edmund Sawyer at
Crescent and other related rocketry work, Daniel got a job with Aerojet
setting up instrumentation to test rockets at the test range in White
Sands, New Mexico. It was that year he would have his reported
"incident" with Alan and alter the trajectory of his life.
Most of the events following 1919 and 1949 were a
result of the changes that had happened during those years. After
1919, Daniel would turn his working knowledge of explosives into jobs
with rockets, which would evolve, thanks in part to his early
involvement with Crescent, into jobs with rocket instrumentation.
After 1949, because of his supposed contact with Alan,
he would be a founding member of the contactee movement, form
Understanding, publish 240+ issues of the Understanding newsletter,
author multiple books and give thousands of lectures, interviews and
talks. Fry would also become the 1972 vice-presidential nominee of the
Universal Party along with the presidential nominee, Gabriel Green.
The last point of interest was in 1978 when everything
started to crumble. For Christmas that year, Daniel would note with
frustration the dwindling membership and see the library and kitchen
at the Tonopah site burned to the ground by an arsonist. Shortly
before the fire, Daniel would turn over the Understanding organization
to Mr. and Mrs. Sellman and move to Alamogordo, New Mexico with
Florence. Less than a year later, the
Sellmans quit, along with a number of other long time board members
like Tahahlita, because of Daniel's refusal to negotiate a settlement
over the Tonopah site lawsuit related to Enid Smith's contested will.
With the Understanding organization in tatters, the publication of the
newsletter ceased in 1979 for the first time in over 20 years. A year
later, Daniel's second wife, Florence, would be dead from breast
cancer. |
Professional life |
In his professional
life, he worked as a "powder man" or explosive supervisor in the 1930s
and 1940s on such jobs as the Salina Dam near San Luis Obispo, California, for the Basic Magnesium Corporation and on the Pan American Highway in Honduras. From 1949 until 1954, Daniel worked at Aerojet
designing, building and installing transducers for control, feedback
and measurement of rockets during flight and static tests. From 1954
onward, Fry helped build [16] the Crescent Engineering & Research Company into a multimillion dollar company along with the founder, Edmund Vail Sawyer, eventually becoming the Vice President of Research, and a stockholder. Crescent made parts related to rockets including transducers, and did JATO rocket nozzle rework during the war. In the early 1960s Fry sold his share in Crescent and moved up to Merlin, Oregon where he ran the Merlin Development Companyuntil moving to Tonopah, Arizona
in the 1970s. There he looked after Enid Smith until her death and
managed her estate including property she had donated to
Understanding, Inc. Shortly before Understanding ceased to function in
1979, Daniel retired to Alamogordo,
New Mexico but a few years later, restarted publication of the
Understanding newsletter, by now reduced to a single 8" x 14" page,
which he continued until 1989. |
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Daniel William Fry was born July 19, 1908 near a small steamboat landing on the Mississippi River called Verdon Township in the Northern part of Aitkin County, Minnesota
to Fred Nelson Fry and Clara Jane Baehr. Clara died in 1916 and left
Daniel and his older sister, Florence, to be raised by their
grandmother while Fred found work where he could as a carpenter and
labourer. Fred died two years later in 1918 during the influenza pandemic
and left Daniel orphaned at the age of ten. He and his sister were
reared under the guardianship of his grandmother and came with her to South Pasadena, California in 1920. Daniel attended the now defunct El Centro Elementary school and went to high school in Antelope Valley.
His parents left practically no estate and at the age
of eighteen he found himself entirely dependent upon his own
resources. He completed high school but because of increasing
unemployment that preceded the 1930s depression he abandoned plans for
university. However, he found what jobs he could and studied during
the evenings. He worked through the subjects he would have taken at
university by using material from the Pasadena
Public Library. He became interested in chemistry and eventually
specialized in the use of explosives finally settling on the new field
of rocketry.
He married his first wife, Elma, in 1934 and had three
children. He divorced Elma in 1964 while in Merlin, Oregon and took up
common-law residence with Bertha (aka Tahahlita) until moving to Tonopah, Arizona in the mid 1970s. There he married Florence and before Florence died of breast cancer in 1980, they retired to Alamogordo,
New Mexico. Daniel then married Cleona, a local Alamogordo resident
in 1982 and lived with her until his death on December 20, 1992. |
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(born 1952), a Southern California native,is an author, teacher, ufologist, spiritual counselor, energetic healer, and the founder of the Enlightened Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (ECETI) organization.He studied 6 years of Yoga, and has received The Teaching of the Inner Christ certificate and the Rigdzin Norbu ("Jewel of Pure Awareness") certificate.
Early years Gilliland was
raised in a small desert town spending most of his time in nature.
While in high school, he was captain of the water polo team and the
swim team.
Adulthood
Gilliland went on to study the construction industry, grocery industry,
and real estate industry and was on the board of directors for the
chamber of commerce.He owned a California-based commercial real
estate company called Pro Realty Management, which developed and managed shopping centers and other multi-million dollar projects.
One day, while body surfing, a couple of waves forced
Gilliland into the water, dislocating his shoulder and collapsing his
diaphragm. After fighting the waves and making it to the top in order to get air, he noticed that he was incapable of breathing. It was at this point that he says his near-death experience occurred.
It blew me wide open. It shifted me up into what I call the inter-dimensional mind.
After the incident, James said he gave up his material world in order to pursue a spiritual journey. He moved to Santa Cruz, California, where he lived for six years, opening a meditation center during his time there. In 1986, he moved to Mount Adams, Trout Lake, Washington, opening up his Sattva Sanctuary, a 70-acre (280,000 m2) mountain retreat dedicated for spiritual healing. [4] He has also been operating the Self Mastery Earth Institute (SMEI) at his sanctuary.
Gilliland says his sanctuary is at an opening to a dimensional portal where extraterrestrial ships travel to and from Earth. His first close encounter
occurred after eight years of living on his sanctuary; while meditating
in his home, he says that he heard a voice in his head originating
from a UFO, and after leaving his meditation his sister ran inside informing him that a UFO was hovering over his house. Since then, Gilliland says that he has experienced close encounters with Pleiadeans, Andromedans, extraterrestrials from the Orion constellation, and thousands of UFOs around his sanctuary. In one of his close encounters, Gilliland says that he was allowed to go on board one of the UFOs.
During another one of his close encounters, Gilliland says he was hit
by "three balls of energy" in the chest, after which appeared Melia,
an "extremely loving, benevolent and yet down to business"
extraterrestrial from the Orion constellation.
... I was hit with three balls of light within a
stream of energy, after which a woman appeared to me with a strange
headdress used for communication and other higher consciousness and
energy works. The ship came in as a golden light from the north. It
dropped down low and hovered ...
Gilliland also says that he has been in communication with Archangel Michael, Archangel Gabriel, Jesus, Buddha, Mother Mary, and Cazekiel, his main contact whom Gilliland says is also known as Ezekiel.
He currently has his own radio show called As You Wish.
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Night Has a Thousand Saucers" related how he had served in the Pacific
briefly at the end of World War II, then returned to his home in
Pennsylvania where he and his father, after Kenneth Arnold's sighting
of flying saucers in 1947, became completely absorbed by the subject of
saucers, reading every book, pamphlet and article they could find on
the topic, and subscribing to Ray Palmer's magazine "Fate". |
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is a British
make-up artist. She claims to be a multiple abduction victim and also
that she has experienced paranormal and alien events throughout her
life from early childhood to the present. She is regarded in many
circles as being the UK's, if not Europe's, "leading" Alien Abductee[citation needed]
and it is widely believed that her abduction experiences are
unparalleled. This is to be the subject of the forthcoming book The Alien Within by Nick Pope.
In 2001, at the 20th Leeds International UFO Conference organized by UFO Magazine (UK), Nick Pope
introduced Briggite where she related some of her childhood
experiences and described them in the context of a child's
description, later in the lecture revisiting the simple child-like
explanations from a more adult perspective. Nick worked with for
several years, and took her to New York to work with Budd Hopkins. He gave a joint presentation with her at the September 2001 conference organised by "UFO Magazine" editor Graham W Birdsall.
One of her early experiences allegedly involved "a
little Chinese girl. "I thought has to be Chinese, oriental at lease
because of her eyes." and later "...a sort of gazebo in a field. The
field shimmered around it and I thought it must have been the grass
swaying in the wind. The gazebo had colored lanterns around the
outside...flickering..." [not exact quotes]. We were later to find out
that the little Chinese girl was probably one of the stereotypical
"Greys" and the gazebo was most likely an alien craft.
Brigitte also related more current abduction events,
some of which supposedly occurred when she was living in the USA. Nick
introduced her to Budd Hopkins,
a renowned expert of the abduction phenomenon in the USA, to try to
bring clarity to Brigite's deep conscious memories through the use of
regression techniques.
In Nick Pope's Weird World article he states that "I
gave a presentation with Brigitte Grant, an abductee who I've been
working with for several years. Brigitte gave an overview of the
various strange experiences that she's had, focusing on a few specific
UFO and abduction experiences. For an audience more used to hearing
from the abduction researchers, it was refreshing to hear about
experiences first hand, from an abductee, and aside from being
fascinated by her story, the audience very much appreciated Brigitte's
courage for speaking out about her encounters in so public a forum.
The Sunday speakers were equally impressive."
Nick Pope is currently working with Brigitte Grant on a book - The Alien Within
- about her extraordinary UFO and abduction experiences, which are
unparalleled in the literature. She is also the founder member of the
South West Witness Support Group. |
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(born 1924 in Whittier, California, died 8 September, 2001, in Yucca Valley, California) was a write-in United States presidential candidate in 1960 and 1972. He claimed to have graduated with a PhD in physics from UC Berkeley in 1953, and to have made several important contributions to the Standard Model
of elementary particles, but his actual educational background seems
to have been acquired at Woodbury Business College in Los Angeles. For
much of his life he worked as a photographer for the Los Angeles school system. He is probably also among the least well-known of the classic 1950s contactees,
individuals who claimed to have met and talked with friendly
human-looking Space Brothers from other planets, and to have ridden in
their spacecraft.
He founded the California-based Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc. in 1957, approximately at the same time he announced his meeting with flying saucer crewmen from the hitherto unknown planet Korender, orbiting the triple star Alpha Centauri. Like George Adamski and most other contactees of the period, he said he was able to maintain continual telepathic links with the wise and helpful extraterrestrials
he had met. In his 1960 run for US president, he claimed to represent
the Universal Flying Saucer Party, and to base his political
philosophy on "United World Universal Economics." He also ran
unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1962 in California, claiming to have accumulated over 171,000 votes.
In 1967 he published his only book, Let's Face Facts about Flying Saucers. In 1972 he ran again, this time in Iowa,
for US president, collecting less than 200 votes. Like most if not
all of the 1950s contactees, Green was evidently far more interested
in New Age/Theosophical topics such as reincarnation, channelling, Spiritualism and psychic phenomena
than he was in being a prophet expounding wisdom supposedly acquired
from friendly space-alien contacts. Also—like most of the more obscure
contactees—he eventually dropped out of sight, moving to the vicinity
of Yucca Valley, CA after his last run for president, and very seldom
thereafter appearing in public until his death about three decades
later. |
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(June 28, 1955) is an American physician, ufologist, author, lecturer and founder of the Orion Project and The Disclosure Project.
Education According to Greer, he enrolled in Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, but in 1974 he "left traditional college at Boone to enter teacher training at Maharishi International University". As of 2007, Greer was licensed to practice medicine in Virginia and has also been licensed in North Carolina. Career
Greer is former chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Caldwell Memorial Hospital in Lenoir, North Carolina, and a lifetime member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.
In 1990 Greer founded the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) (not to be confused with SETI), and offers how-to training on initiating contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. Greer also teaches the use of meditation techniques that he claims allow attendees to "remote view" locations and times (past and present), and develop "cosmic consciousness" and supernatural abilities such as precognition.
In 1993, Greer founded the Disclosure Project, claiming evidence of extraterrestrial visits to Earth, and a wide-ranging conspiracy by secret illegal government projects in the United States and around the world to cover up evidence of these visits.[citation needed]Greer
also claims that these groups suppress unspecified extraterrestrial
technologies from the people of the world, including free energy (see free energy suppression). One
of the Disclosure Project's most famous presentations was at the
National Press Club in 2001, where Greer and a number of individuals
came forward with alleged evidence.
Greer is also the founder of the Advanced Energy Research Organization (AERO) and The Orion Project. Both seek funding for research into perpetual motion and other free energy devices.
According to Greer he is a contactee who has coined the term "close encounter of the fifth kind" (a.k.a. CE5) to describe alleged human initiated contact with extraterrestrials. CE5 encounters are "characterized by mutual, bilateral communication rather than unilateral contact."
In this is an unbelievable story
about the UFO, Paranormal, Extraterrestrial contact, Aliens,
Teleportation, Alien Physics: these ET's would show David the
principles of Free Energy, Perpetual Motion, Antigravity, Alternate
Realities, and Saucer Construction. During David's 20 years of
contact, David Hamel will also set straight Ancient Architecture and
Early Religious distortions regarding the Bible, the Book of the Dead,
the Dead Sea Scrolls, Atlantis, the Pyramids, Stone hinge, and many
other ET artifacts left behind during the first two evolution's of
planet Earth.
This information is so Bizarre
and unbelievable, that it sounds like science fiction -unless you are
the first hand Contactee.
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David Hamel through a strange Coincidence, my friend Paul and I drove
up to see David in the small town of Gilmore, just north east of
Toronto, Canada. The brief information that David had relayed to us by
telephone struck our curiosity to meet him as soon as possible.
Basically, David is a simple man who has spent most of his life as a
carpenter. Although David has had no college or University education, he
did put some of his life into the military services-where he had his
first UFO encounter, merely by accident some 20 years ago. |
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Dana Howard was one of the mid-1950s contactees who claimed she went to Venus, married a Venusian, and raised a family there.
Biography
She said she was attending a seance conducted by medium Bertie Lilly
Candler on April 29, 1955, when Candler managed to summon up and
materialize an eight-foot tall, blonde woman from Venus. She later
claimed she went to Venus, married a Venusian, and raised a family on
that planet.
Within a year after the original late-1952 contactee claims of George Adamski, spirit mediums, automatic writing, Ouija boards, and trance channeling had become the standard ways to contact and communicate with the wise and friendly Space Brothers. The eight-foot blonde, named Diane, provided Howard with the material for most of her published books.
Diane's messages had the usual, stereotypical mid-1950s Theosophical
content, including techniques for "mastery of the subconscious,"
remembering past lives, "direct knowing," and "Elimination,
Purification, Rejuvenation and Regeneration or Transmuting." Once the
human race evolves to the next level, it will be transferred as a
"life-stream" to Venus, for further spiritual development.
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George King (Aetherius Society) |
(January 23, 1919 - July 12, 1997) was Founder-President of The Aetherius Society, a UFO religion. He was also an inventor, author, lecturer and spiritual teacher.
Early Years
George King was born in Wellington, Shropshire to George and Mary King. Much of his childhood was spent in North Yorkshire. Both his mother and grandmother claimed to be psychics.
His grandmother recognised what she believed were similar talents in
her grandson and helped him to develop them. In his book about spiritual healing, You Too Can Heal,,
King writes that at age eleven, when his mother was seriously ill and
confined to her bed, he went alone into the woods and began to pray
passionately for her recovery. According to King an "angelic being"
appeared before him and instructed him to return home, as his mother
had been healed. He arrived back to find his mother up and well.
When war broke out in 1939, King joined the National Fire Service as a part-time volunteer. King became section leader in an emergency task force. In 1940, he participated in the Dunkirk evacuation on the crew of a Thames fire float, and did rescue work following the London Blitz.
When hostilities ceased, King was 26, he turned to the study of yoga as well as various healing arts. In his book You Are Responsible!, King recounts that one Saturday morning in May 1954, while in his small flat in Maida Vale,
London, he heard a loud, commanding voice instructing him to "Prepare
yourself! You are to become the voice of interplanetary parliament."
Shortly afterwards, he channelled his first message transmission purporting to come from an advanced spiritual being living on Venus and using the pseudonym Aetherius.
King quit his job as a taxi driver and established a new religious movement, the "Aetherius Society" to convey the messages of the extraterrestrials. When King founded the Aetherius Society, he claimed that "space aliens held the key to the salvation both of the planet as a whole and of every individual on Earth." |
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King adopted what he described as a "positive" form of trance
in order to enter the state necessary to channel these messages. He
contrasted this state with the "negative" form of trance adopted by
many spiritualist mediums.
The "positive" form of trance was, he said, the result of intense
effort and concentration. He used techniques drawn from some of the
advanced branches of yoga to concentrate upon one of the psychic
centres or chakras connected to the spine and upon the telepathic impulses radiated by his communicators.
King gave away his possessions as he continued to
receive transmissions which often were arranged in advance, and
tape-recorded. Many were given in front of public audiences, such as
at Caxton Hall in London which was regular venue for King. The
recordings are in the possession of the The Aetherius Society. The
trance condition that King adopted was, he said, extremely stressful.
Moreover, it was potentially dangerous to enter it in public because
of the risks of a loud noise or physical blow startling him out of it.
By the time he stopped receiving transmissions in this way, in the
late 1970s, he had experienced over 600 trances.
Some of the reported messages from these beings, whom he called the Cosmic Masters,
dealt with the dangers of atomic experimentation, a new religious
philosophy and the reality of life on other worlds. These were sent to
the world’s media and governments. |
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On July 23, 1958, King claimed to have had physical contact with an extraterrestrial "Cosmic Master" who on had incarnated on Earth as Jesus but was now on the etheric plane of Venus. He claimed the contact occurred on top of Holdstone Downs, in North Devon, England; and he claimed great power had been sent out, specifically to prevent a war in Lebanon. In addition, he claimed the contact caused the hill itself to be charged with spiritual energy. Holdstone Down is now a regular place of pilgrimage for members of The Aetherius Society.
Within a few days, King channelled the first of a series of "message transmissions" from "Master Jesus" called "The Twelve Blessings". Delivered in the basement chapel of The Aetherius Society’s new premises on Fulham Road, London, the Blessings are now a central component in the spiritual teaching and practices of the society.
Holdstone Down proved to be the first of nineteen sacred mountains around the world charged in what became known as "Operation Starlight". Following the charging of the second mountain on Bodmin Moor
in England, he said that he had heard a mighty voice deliver "the
Lord’s Declaration", prophesying the coming to Earth of the "Next
Master", an open landing of an extraterrestrial being. Seven more
mountains were charged in the British Isles.
Four phases of the operation were conducted in America.
Further phases in Australia and New Zealand followed. In New Zealand,
on Mount Wakefield in the foothills of Mount Cook,
he and his companion Keith Hope-Robertson lost their way and were
forced to spend Christmas Eve 1960 overnight on the mountain. With two
more phases in Europe, and a third one performed on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania by a Master of "The Spiritual Hierarchy of Earth", Saint Goo-Ling,
Operation Starlight ended on August 23 1961. The Aetherius Society
views the Charged Mountains as an endless source of spiritual power
and the Twelve Blessings as a powerful way to tap it for one's own
benefit and for that of humanity as a whole. |
Other Operations |
In 1959 King founded the "American Headquarters of The Aetherius Society" in Los Angeles (the temple of the Aetherius Society, the Sunday services at which the general public is welcome to attend, is located on Hollywood Boulevard), where he would live the remainder of his life, although he continued to visit London.
In 1964, "Operation Bluewater" was born. For this King
had to design a special apparatus capable of radiating a beam of
"spiritual energy" through thousands of feet of seawater
into one of Earth's "psychic centers". A boat was taken out on the
Pacific over four phases, during which King said that he maintained telepathic
contact with the "Cosmic Masters" while steering in complicated
manoeuvres over the center. He claimed the result was that the San Andreas Fault was kept in balance and thousands of lives were saved.
On July 8, 1964, King claimed to receive a transmission describing how spacecraft from many worlds amassed in the skies of Earth to conduct her "Primary Initiation". King recorded this event and explained it in his book The Day The Gods Came, which was published shortly afterwards.
Realising mankind's abuse of the Earth and what he regarded as the inevitable karmic
repercussions that were due as a result, King designed "Operation
Sunbeam". It had a simple strategy: take spiritual energy given to man
through Operation Starlight and send it to the Earth, thus balancing
the karma of mankind. He designed a "Spiritual Energy Radiator" to
radiate energy sent to it by an extraterrestrial spacecraft. He also
devised a battery that he claimed could hold spiritual energy.
Operation Sunbeam began on September 24, 1966 when two batteries were
charged on Mount Baldy and discharged toward an offshore area of Santa Barbara considered a "Psychic Center of the Earth."
From this technology came yet another operation. Begun
on Holdstone Down on June 30, 1973, "Operation Prayer Power" was meant
as a tool for saving the environment and mass healing. Again the
premise was simple: amass large amounts of spiritual energy through
prayer and discharge it quickly and decisively to world crises. Energy
was to be invoked through the Twelve Blessings, stored in a spiritual
energy battery and discharged using the Spiritual Energy Radiator. The
mission purportedly helped to arrest disease waves, stimulate
international aid and even (in the case of Cyprus in 1974) stop a war.
Later Years On December 5, 1978, he claims to have received an invitation to visit the mythical city of Shambhala which, it is said, has floated over the Gobi Desert on the etheric plane for hundreds of thousands of years. There he reports having met the being known during his incarnation on Earth as the Buddha. |
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The guest is Phillip H.
Krapf - Pulitzer Prize winner and author of "The Contact Has Begun:
The True Story of a Journalist's Encounter with Alien Beings". He also
wrote the sequel called, "The Challenge of Contact: A Mainstream
Journalist's Report on Interplanetary Diplomacy". Glenn Rickert,
Multidimensional Field Theorist, is the host of this very enlightening
show entitled, "Extraterrestrial Encounters".
Phillip Krapf speaks of how he was first contacted in
June of 1997 and taken aboard an extraterrestrial spacecraft. He also
shares his straightforward account of what happened during this and
his following visits, details on what these benevolent beings called
the Verdants were like and why he and a few others on Earth (some are
Ambassadors and others like Phillip are called Deputy Envoys) and have
been selected to present this information to humanity now.
Philip Krapf revised his book, "The Challenge of
Contact" in 2002 to include important information he received -- that
full public disclosure about ET contact was supposed to be made in
2002 but was put on hold because of what occurred on September 11. His
publisher, Byron Belitsos, states in this second edition:
"Of course, this historic communication became obsolete on
September 11, as you will learn in this book. Because of this tragic
news, and in order to fully update our readers on the effect of 9/11
on the human/alien contact mission, Phil and I have decided to bring
out this new edition of The Challenge of Contact. The book is
extensively revised, featuring new front matter, a lengthy new
chapter, and new appendices. Its main contents remain the story of
Krapf's second visit to the alien ship, which was first presented in the
earlier edition..."
Phillip H. Krapf worked in the journalism field for 30
years as a photographer, reporter, copy and managing editor. He spent
the last 25 years of his career at the Los Angeles Times on the Metro
Desk and shared in a Pulizer Prize as a member of the Metro team that
covered the L.A. riots of 1992. Phillip has been written about in many
publications and appeared on radio and television shows including The
Art Bell Show and Fox TV. Phillip Krapf also spoke at the Global
Wings Conference in August 2002 in Denver, Colorado on "The Challenge
of Contact - Establishing Diplomatic Ties with Extraterrestrials" with
a workshop on "Exploring Personal Alien Encounters". He can be
contacted by email at phkrapf@pacbell.net or you can visit his website
at http://www.thechallengeofcontact.com.
For additional information about this interview with
Phillip Krapf and more, please visit the TV Guide section of our
website at www.theisleoflight.com
On Monday, April 14 (aired in Denver only) is the repeat
interview of F. Holmes "Skip" Atwater - Research Director at The
Monroe Institute - and the topic is "Living with Guidance". Brenda
Cleveland, Creative Goddess, is the host of this very intriguing show.
"Captain of My Ship, Master of My Soul: Living with Guidance" is Skip
Atwater's latest book which he speaks about during the show. It
focuses on how Spirit works to guide us during our lives. He writes
that everyday life is a mere reflection of spirit experienced as an
intention to become aware of All That Is. Skip shares his personal and
spiritual experiences in his book which includes his childhood
experiences, his work with Robert Monroe at the Monroe Institute,
out-of-body experiences, remote viewing and much more.
F. Holmes "Skip" Atwater also spoke at the Global Wings
Conference in August 2002 in Denver, Colorado on "Hemi-Sync and Remote
Viewing" with a workshop on "Basic Remote Viewing". His websites can
be found at http://www.skipatwater.com and
http://www.monroeinstitute.org.
The Isle of Light can be viewed on cable channel 58 (you
must reside in Denver to access DCTV) on Mondays at 9 PM MST and
Wednesdays at 5 PM MST. For those who cannot access DCTV, on Wednesdays
only, this show can also be seen video streamed on the Internet at 5
PM by going to www.dctv.org. You will need to download the free
software, RealPlayer, to view the show which is available from this
DCTV page. Internet Explorer and a high speed connection gives better
viewing results also. |
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(1905-2004) was the nom de guerre of Brazilian Aladino Felix, who claimed to be contacted by an alien. Later in life he publicly recanted his claims of alien contact.
Biography
He was born in Pedra do Baú and died in Uberaba, Minas Gerais.[citation needed] In 1959 he published Meu Contato com os discos voadores (My Contact with Flying Saucers).[3][2] The book that tells the story of his claimed contact with a flying saucer
commander, who didn't give any name, at a road near Kraspedon's
homeland. The visitor explained physics concepts from a different
perspective, and gave insights on how to improve humanities social
conditions. In 1968 he was arrested for suspicion of being a
terrorist, after he predicted that there would be a period of terrorism. |
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(1925 - December 3, 1962) was an airline flight attendant and a follower of Oahspe who became part of the 1950s contactee movement in 1953.
Lee claimed to be in telepathic communication with an entity known as JW, who lived on the planet Jupiter, and began to assemble a book of his spiritual teachings as dictated to her. At his direction she founded the Cosmon Research Foundation
for the purpose of publication and study of JW's superhuman wisdom,
much of which bore some resemblance to the 1882 teachings of Oahspe.
Membership in Gloria Lee's organization rose sharply after advertisements were regularly carried in Ray Palmer's monthly occult magazine Fate. She also hit the contactee
lecture circuit and attracted considerable public attention. During
her lectures, Lee sold copies of her book of revelations, Why We Are Here! (1959). The year of her death, a second "JW" book was published, The Changing Conditions of Your Planet (1962).
Lee developed a plan for world peace and a space
station design and took them to Washington DC in late 1962 in an
attempted to bring them to the attention of officials. However, after
being rebuffed, she launched a hunger strike or protest fast, telling others in the UFO contactee
community that she expected to enter a coma resembling death, then
"return" with renewed spiritual energy to carry on her "great work".
However, the press were not notified of Lee's hunger strike until some
time after it had begun, and she attracted no publicity. After
approximately 66 days without eating Lee was taken to George Washington
University Hospital where she died on December 3, 1962.
After her death, Charles Boyd Gentzel, the founder of Mark-Age, Inc., and his partner Pauline Sharpe (also known as Nada-Yolanda), claimed to be channelling spirit messages from Lee on behalf of their own UFO-contact cult.
Lee is not the only contactee or would-be contactee to starve herself to death. In November 1982, LaVerne Landis,
a member of the UFO cult Search and Prove, died of starvation while
waiting in her car in the northern Minnesota woods for over 40 days
for a flying saucer to land, after being reportedly being told to wait
there during psychic contact with a Space Brother. |
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Gloria Lee
Einstein |
'Take care not to make intellect
our God, it has powerful muscles but no personality.'
me - 'Intellect is only spiritually appropriate if you use it to teach others,
if you intellectualize and don't
share, you should be meditating'.
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